He is credited as being the first American born composer to commit a composition to paper with his 1759 composition " My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free.

He served as secretary at the Treaty of Easton ( 1758 ), and wrote An Enquiry into the Causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians from the British Interest ( 1759 ), which blamed the war on the proprietors.

Other attempts were made by Euler ( 1749 ), de Foncenex ( 1759 ), Lagrange ( 1772 ), and Laplace ( 1795 ).

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 ).

: Other titles ( 1st Duke ): Duke of Fife and Marquess of Macduff ( UK 1889 ), Earl Fife and Viscount Macduff ( Ir 1759 ), Baron Braco, of Klbryde in the county of Cavan ( Ir 1735 ) and Baron Skene, of Skene in the county of Aberdeen ( UK 1857 )

Other bridges from that time include Kew Bridge ( 1759 ), Battersea Bridge ( 1773 ), and Richmond Bridge ( 1777 ).

Other sources give the date of this development as 1759.

Butler's great work, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints (" Butler's Lives "), the result of thirty years study ( first published in four volumes, London, 1756 – 1759 ), has passed through many editions and translations ( best edition, including valuable notes, Dublin, 12 vols.

Other early settlements included Bethabara ( 1753 ), Bethania ( 1759 ) and Salem ( now referred to as Old Salem in Winston-Salem North Carolina ) ( 1766 ).

Other milestones were the building of a large labyrinth ( Huanghuazhen ) in the years 1756 to 1759 and an observatory ( Yuanying Guan ) which was added in 1783.

Other English translations appeared in 1737, 1759, and 1873.

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.

British forces seized remaining French control over Acadia in the coming months, with Île-Saint-Jean falling in 1759 to British forces on their way to Quebec City for the Siege of Quebec and ensuing Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany, three pioneer physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuths ( 1759 – 1839 ) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ( 1778 – 1852 ) – created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics.

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.

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.

* Conjectures on Original Composition ... ( 1759 ), addressed to Samuel Richardson

In 1759 he married Marie Anne de Surcourt, addressed in his Élégies as Fanny.

* 1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Years ' War between Great Britain and France.

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

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

In France a new leader, the Duc de Choiseul, had recently come to power and 1759 offered a duel between their rival strategies.

A clock was installed by Antoine de Sartine, the lieutenant general of police between 1759 and 1774, on the side of the office wing, depicting two chained prisoners.

In 1759, after the capture of Fort Duquesne in Allegheny County, a road was built between the fort ( which was renamed to Fort Pitt ) to the newly built Fort Bedford in Raystown.

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.

With his appointment as assessor ( or chief legal officer ) of the Chancellor's Court, Blackstone became far more involved in the university's peculiar legal system, and records show him sitting between eight and ten times a year from 1753 to 1759, mainly dealing with small claims of debt.

Town officials arranged for the deepening of the Clyde in 1759, the reclamation of the channels between the islands ( The Whyte Inch, The Black Inch, and The King's Inch ), and the construction of quays and docks.

In October 1759 Coote's regiment arrived to take part in the decisive struggle between French and British in the Carnatic.

Again Pocock was unable to prevent his opponent from reaching Pondicherry, and a well-contested battle between them on 10 September 1759 proved again indecisive.

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 Bradfield Parish workhouse was based in High Bradfield between 1759 and 1847, the building is still there today, standing across the road from the Old Horns pub on Towngate, the building was converted into private houses in the 1870s.

Four major ironworks, Dowlais, Plymouth, Cyfarthfa and Penydarren, began production between 1759 and 1784, but transport of the finished iron was difficult.

John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, preached in Gainsborough several times between 1759 and 1790.

He was the father of three sons, including Aziz-ud-Din who reigned as Mughal emperor between 1754 and 1759.

The village of Cioara is linked to Sofronie of Cioara, the Eastern Orthodox Monk and Saint of the Romanian Orthodox Church who, between the autumn of 1759 and the spring of 1761, led the peaceful uprising of the Romanian Orthodox population against the Habsburg policy of encouraging all Romanians to join the Greek-Catholic Church.

John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland KG, PC ( 1 June 1759 – 15 December 1841 ), styled Lord Burghersh between 1771 and 1774, was a British Tory politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who served in most of the cabinets of the period, primarily as Lord Privy Seal.

About 1759, Pascal Paoli, who often came to Balagne, decided to equip Corsica with a port in the north west of the island to try to cut the sea traffic between Genoa and Calvi.

Dance spent the six years between 1759 and 1765 studying architecture and draughtsmanship in Rome.

During many decades it was the only university in Portugal, since its foundation in 1290 until 1559 ( a university in Évora operated between 1559 and 1759 ), and again between 1759 and 1911 ( University of Lisbon and University of Porto were created in 1911 ).