The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building.

With the acquisition of Montagu House the first exhibition galleries and reading room for scholars opened on 15 January 1759.

They held the first Burns supper on what they thought was his birthday on 29 January 1802, but in 1803 discovered from the Ayr parish records that the correct date was 25 January 1759, and since then suppers have been held on 25 January, Burns ' birthday.

On January 6, 1759, Washington married the wealthy widow Martha Dandridge Custis, then 28 years old.

He wrote as fast as he possibly could, composing the first 18 chapters between January and March 1759.

As a result of having read this book Gilbert, two years later, journeyed to England with three of his slaves and there in at drawing room meeting arranged in Wandsworth on 15 January 1759, met the preacher John Wesley.

* January 23 – Joseph Ames, English author ( d. 1759 )

* January 23 – William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1759 )

* January 3 – Prince Maximilian of Saxony ( b. 1759 )

* January 12 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1759 )

* January 16 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier ( b. 1759 )

* January 2 – James Wolfe, British general ( d. 1759 )

* January 29 – Konstancja Czartoryska, Polish noblewoman ( d. 1759 )

# Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia ( 24 July 1759 – 10 January 1824 ) married Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este in 1789, had issue.

Victor Emmanuel I ( 24 July 1759 – 10 January 1824 ) was the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia ( 1802-21 ).

William Pitt the Younger ( 28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806 ) was a British politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The Burns Howff Club was formed in the Globe Inn, Dumfries, South West Scotland in 1889, and meets on 25 January each year to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns in 1759 with a Burns Supper.

Charles III ( Spanish: Carlos III ; Italian: Carlo III ; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788 ) was the King of Spain and the Spanish Indies from 1759 to 1788.

Spranger Barry ( left ) as Romeo Montague | Romeo to Maria Isabella Nossiter's Juliet Capulet | Juliet in William Shakespeare | Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Covent Garden in 1759. Spranger Barry ( 23 November 1719 – 10 January 1777 ) was an Irish actor.

Martha Dandridge Custis, aged 27, and George Washington, aged nearly 27, married on January 6, 1759, at the White House plantation.

Ferdinand I ( 12 January 1751 – 4 January 1825 ) reigned variously over Naples, Sicily, and the Two Sicilies from 1759 until his death.

Ferdinand was styled both Ferdinand III of Sicily ( 6 October 1759 – 8 December 1816 ) and Ferdinand IV of Naples ( 6 October 1759 – 23 January 1799 ; 13 June 1799 – 30 March 1806 ; 3 May 1815 – 8 December 1816 ).

The " wonderful year " referenced in the first verse is 1759-1760, during which British forces were victorious in several significant battles: the Battle of Minden on 1st of August 1759, the Battle of Lagos on 19 August 1759, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ( outside Quebec City ) on 13 September 1759 and the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759, foiling a French invasion project.

* October 13 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, artist ( b. 1759 )

It did not pass through its perihelion until 13 March 1759, the attraction of Jupiter and Saturn having caused a retardation of 618 days.

* 1P / 1758 Y1, 1759 I ( 13 March 1759 )

The situation got worse in 1759 when Fort Carillon and Fort Niagara were taken, and the key citadel of Quebec fell after a prolonged siege and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham of September 13, 1759.

The battle, which began on 13 September 1759, was fought between the British Army and Navy, and the French Army, on a plateau just outside the walls of Quebec City, on land that was originally owned by a farmer named Abraham Martin, hence the name of the battle.

Major General James P. Wolfe ( 2 January 1727 – 13 September 1759 ) was a British Army officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French in Canada.

The Plains of Abraham is a historic area within The Battlefields Park in Quebec City, Quebec, that was originally grazing land, but became famous as the site of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, which took place on 13 September 1759.

On 13 September 1759, the area was the scene of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, part of the French and Indian War, which was itself part of the Seven Years ' War.

" He died in London on 13 October 1759.

They had a son Charles-Marius ( 1757 – 1832 ) and his daughters Amélie-Suzanne (* 13 Jan 1759 ) and Louise-Pauline ( 19 Dec 1759 – 1830 ).

* Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras ( b. October 13, 1759, d. August 3, 1833 ), Architect and painter.

He was in the Battle of Beaufort, and was chosen by Wolfe to lead the ascent from the Saint Lawrence River up to the Plains of Abraham that led to the British victory in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham on 13 September 1759.

Molecular Ecology 13: 1759 – 1769.

Charles Simeon ( September 24, 1759 – November 13, 1836 ), was an English evangelical clergyman.

On the night of 13 September 1759 he was part of the forlorn hope, the twenty-four volunteers leading the British attempt to climb the cliffs rising above the St. Lawrence River.

She and the other defendants sentenced to death were publicly tortured and executed on January 13, 1759, in a field near Lisbon.

File: Pine, Plum and Cranes. jpg | Pine, Plum and Cranes, 1759 AD, by Shen Quan ( 1682 — 1760 ).

Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.

By 1759, King Alaungpaya's Konbaung forces had reunited all of Burma ( and Manipur ), extinguished the Mon-led Hanthawaddy dynasty once and for all, and driven out the European powers who provided arms to Hanthawaddy — the French from Thanlyin and the English from Negrais.

* Daniel Bakeman ( 1759 – 1869 ) — Claimed to be veteran and was awarded pension by Congress, though could not prove service.

* Lemuel Cook ( 1759 – 1866 ) — Last official veteran.

In December 1757, while cutting firewood near Fort Anne, John Weatherspoon was captured by Indians — presumably Mi ' kmaq — and was carried away to the mouth of the Miramichi River, from where he was sold or traded to the French, taken to Quebec and was held until late in 1759 and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, when General Wolfe's forces prevailed.

The Battle of Minden — or Tho ( r ) nhausen — was fought on 1 August 1759, during the Seven Years ' War.

— Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759

The 24 mile flight brought Lunardi fame and began the ballooning fad that inspired fashions of the day — Lunardi skirts were decorated with balloon styles, and in Scotland, the Lunardi Bonnet was named after him ( balloon-shaped and standing some 600 mm tall ), and is even mentioned by Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns ( 1759 – 96 ), in his poem ' To a Louse ', written about a young woman called Jenny, who had a louse scampering in her Lunardi bonnet, " But Miss's fine Lunardi, fye ".

* 1759-1760 — Earthquake in Faial, which began on December 24, 1759 which was the greatest earthquake on the island, followed with many tremors.