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* 1759 – William Kirby, English entomologist ( d. 1850 )
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In 1736, he participated in the expedition organized for that purpose by the French Academy of Sciences, led by the French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis ( 1698 – 1759 ) to measure a degree of latitude.
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His parents were Didier Diderot ( 1675 – 1759 ) a cutler, maître coutelier and his wife Angélique Vigneron ( 1677 – 1748 ).
Didier Diderot ( 1685 – 1759 ), a painting by an unknown artist.
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* 1850 – William Kirby, English entomologist ( b. 1759 )
In 1783, after the war, he married Jane Cook ( also born in Christian County, in 1759 to William Cook and his wife Sarah Simpson ).
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* December 22 – William Plumer, U. S. lawyer and lay preacher ( b. 1759 )
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* June 27 – William Pepperrell, English colonial soldier ( d. 1759 )
Johnson's advance stopped at Fort William Henry, and the French withdrew to Ticonderoga point, where they began the construction of Fort Carillon ( later renamed Fort Ticonderoga after British capture in 1759 ).
William Hawkins revised the play again in 1759.
* Caratacus is the subject of William Mason's 1759 lyric poem of the same name and the 1776 play based on it.
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Amherst then led an army against French troops on Lake Champlain, where he captured Fort Ticonderoga in July 1759, while another army under Sir William Johnson took Niagara also in July 1759 and James Wolfe besieged and eventually captured Quebec with a third army in September 1759.
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" Pitt, William ( 1759 – 1806 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ( 2004 ); online 2009 ; accessed 12 Sept 2011
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