Through the influence of his connections in the colonial office, Bernard was appointed governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in late 1759.

He spent 1759 and 1760 traveling though the American colonies, and afterward wrote Travels Through the Middle Settlements in North America, In the Years 1759 and 1760 ( London: T. Payne, 1775 ).

Finally, in 1754, Nazareth Hall was built in hopes that Count Zinzendorf would return from Europe and settle in Nazareth permanently, but he never returned to the U. S. However, in 1759 Nazareth Hall became the central boarding school for sons of Moravian parents.

Category: 1759 in Europe

In early 1759, he returned to continental Europe, as part of a massive British army deployment.

A series of victories by the British military in 1759 in North America, Europe, India, and in various naval engagements, is occasionally referred to as William Pitt's annus mirabilis, and was the decisive year of the Seven Years ' War.

1759 ) was born in what is now Ghana, taken to Europe, and became a respected philosopher and teacher at the universities of Halle and Jena in Germany.

Dom Mabillon's Letters and Orations of St. Ambrose of Camaldoli was published at Florence, 1759.

Candide, ou l ' Optimisme (; French: ) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.

It was while living in the countryside, having failed in his attempts to supplement his income as a farmer and struggling with tuberculosis, that Sterne began work on his most famous novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the first volumes of which were published in 1759.

A posthumously published piece on the art of preaching, A Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais, appears to have been written in 1759.

In 1759, decades after the deaths of both Newton and Hooke, Alexis Clairaut, mathematical astronomer eminent in his own right in the field of gravitational studies, made his assessment after reviewing what Hooke had published on gravitation.

This in turn makes it understandable how in 1759, decades after the deaths of both Newton and Hooke, Alexis Clairaut, mathematical astronomer eminent in his own right in the field of gravitational studies, made his assessment after reviewing what Hooke had published on gravitation.

His more serious and academic Treatise on Civil Architecture published In 1759 proved influential on builders ; it went into several editions and was still being republished in 1826 ..

The whole work, including Bower's continuation, was published by Walter Goodall at Edinburgh in 1759.

These writings are: " Milhamot HaShem ," defending Alfasi against the criticisms of Zerachiah ha-Levi of Girona ( published with the " Alfasi ," Venice, 1552 ; frequently reprinted ; separate edition, Berlin, 1759 ); " Sefer ha-Zekhut ," in defense of Alfasi against the criticisms of Abraham ben David ( RABaD ; printed with Abraham Meldola's " Shiv ' ah ' Enayim ," Leghorn, 1745 ; under the title " Machaseh u-Magen ," Venice, 1808 ); " Hassagot " ( Constantinople, 1510 ; frequently reprinted ), in defense of Simeon Kayyara against the criticisms of Maimonides ' " Sefer ha-Mitzwoth " ( Book of Precepts ).

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

Müller's works were published under the care of his brother Johann Georg Müller ( 1759 – 1819 ), pupil of Johann Gottfried Herder, at Tübingen, in 27 vols.

While the first book on caricature drawing to be published in England was Mary Darly's A Book of Caricaturas ( c. 1762 ), the first known North American caricatures were drawn in 1759 during the battle for Quebec.

In 1759 Blackstone published another two works, The Great Charter and the Charter of the Forest, with other authentic Instruments, described as a " major piece of pioneering scholarship " leading to Blackstone's election to the Society of Antiquaries in February 1761, and A Treatise on the Law of Descents in Fee Simple, which was later used, almost verbatim, as chapters 14 and 15 of the Commentaries.

At this point Blackstone had published nothing new since A Treatise on the Law of Descents in Fee Simple in 1759.

He moved to London in about 1759 and in 1766 published The anatomy of the Horse.

Young himself reinforced his reputation as a pioneer of romanticism by precept as well as by example ; in 1759, at the age of 76, he published a piece of critical prose under the title of Conjectures on Original Composition which put forward the vital doctrine of the superiority of " genius ," of innate originality being more valuable than classic indoctrination or imitation, and suggested that modern writers might dare to rival or even surpass the " ancients " of Greece and Rome … The Conjectures was a declaration of independence against the tyranny of classicism and was at once acclaimed as such becoming a milestone in the history of English, and European, literary criticism.

The Needles from Isaac Taylor's " one inch map " of Hampshire, published in 1759, showing Lot's Wife, the needle-shaped pillar that collapsed in a storm in 1764.

Only a few of Zach's pieces were published during his lifetime: a harpsichord sonata ( in Oeuvres mêlées, v / 6 ( Nuremberg, 1759 )), a harpsichord concerto ( Nuremberg, 1766 ; GS C13 ), and the collection Sei sonate for harpsichord and violin or flute ( Paris, 1767 ).

Laurence Sterne's experimental and comic novel Tristram Shandy, published between 1759 and 1767 in nine volumes, hints at the great popularity of Lillibullero.

The book was first published in April 1759 in England.

Stern was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary and was in his mid-forties when he published The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ( 1759 – 1767 ).

Singularly modest and retiring, he published very little, but in 1759 he arranged the plants in the royal garden of the Trianon in the Palace of Versailles, according to his own scheme of classification.

His principal work, Tentamen Theoriae Electricitatis et Magnetismi ( An Attempt at a Theory of Electricity and Magnetism ), published at St Petersburg in 1759, was the first systematic attempt to apply mathematical reasoning to these subjects.

It was published in 1993, soon after he relinquished command of 13th / 18th Royal Hussars ( which includes ( in merged form ) two of the light dragoon regiments: the 13th was originally raised as a heavy dragoon regiment in 1715 but later converted to light dragoons ; the 18th was raised as a light dragoon regiment in 1759 ; both retitled as hussars in 1861, merged in 1922 and then merged with the 15th / 19th The King's Royal Hussars to form the present Light Dragoons in 1992 ).

( c ) Ligeantia localis, by operation of law, when a friendly alien enters the country, because so long as they are in the country they are within the Sovereign's protection, therefore they owe the Sovereign a local obedience or allegiance ( R v Cowle ( 1759 ) 2 Burr 834 ; Low v Routledge ( 1865 ) 1 Ch App 42 ; Re Johnson, Roberts v Attorney-General 1 Ch 821 ; Tingley v Muller 2 Ch 144 ; Rodriguez v Speyer AC 59 ; Johnstone v Pedlar 2 AC 262 ; R v Tucker ( 1694 ) Show Parl Cas 186 ; R v Keyn ( 1876 ) 2 Ex D 63 ; Re Stepney Election Petn, Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 17 QBD 54 );

In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.

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.

Early skirmishes were followed by victory for the Afghans against the smaller Maratha garrisons in Northwest India and by 1759 Ahmad and his army had reached Lahore and were poised to confront the Marathas.

The tower, which rises to, contains a bell dating from 1759 made by Thomas Bilbie of the Bilbie family.

At the Salon of 1759 he exhibited nine paintings ; it was the first Salon to be commented upon by Denis Diderot, who would prove to be a great admirer and public champion of Chardin's work.

Didier Diderot ( 1685 – 1759 ), a painting by an unknown artist.

Diderot helped Grimm between 1759 and 1779, by writing an account of the annual exhibitions of paintings in the Paris Salon.

John Byron, by Joshua Reynolds, 1759.

It first saw the light of day on New Year's Eve 1759 sung by Samuel Thomas Champnes, grandson of John Weldon, in one of the first pantomimes, " Harlequin's Invasion ", at the Garrick Theatre.

Notable accounts of encounters with the Holy Spirit in this fashion are found in St Symeon the New Theologian's account of the illumination of ' George ' ( considered a pseudonym of St Symeon himself ); in the ' conversation with Motovilov ' in the Life of St Seraphim of Sarov ( 1759 – 1833 ); and, more recently, in the reminiscences of Elder Porphyrios ( Wounded by Love pp. 27 – 31 ).

Lettre de cachet ordering Jean-François Marmontel's detention at the Bastille, signed by Louis XV of France | Louis XV in 1759

The fate of one of the columns is recorded by a Greek inscription on one of the surviving columns, which states that " on 27 April 1759 he pulled down the column ".

* Candide ( 1759 ) by Voltaire

The term Quaternary (" fourth ") was proposed by Giovanni Arduino in 1759 for alluvial deposits in the Po river valley in northern Italy.

The Burning of Troy ( 1759 / 62 ), oil painting by Johann Georg Trautmann

In 1759, following a donation, another chair in economy was established, the Borgströmian professorship in " practical economy ", by which was meant the practical application of the natural sciences for economic purposes ( it eventually developed into a chair for physiological botany ).

The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by King's Chapel in Boston, which settled James Freeman ( 1759 – 1835 ) in 1782, and revised the Prayer Book into a mild Unitarian liturgy in 1785.

* 1759: Candide by Voltaire

* 1759: The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith

* 1759 – 1767: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne