*, a 74-gun third rate launched 1758 ; run aground and lost 1759 at the Battle of Quiberon Bay.

In 1758, he took part in the major amphibious assault that captured the Fortress of Louisbourg from the French, after which he participated in the siege of Quebec City and then the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.

The new regiment fought at Louisbourg in 1758 and Quebec in 1759 in the campaign which finally wrested Canada from France ; at Quebec it won from General James Wolfe the motto Celer et Audax ( Swift and Bold ).

Pope Clement XIII ( 1758 – 69 ) appointed him Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna in 1759, at the insistence of Lorenzo Ricci, the General of the Jesuits.

Neither the serious illness of the Empress, which began with a fainting-fit at Tsarskoe Selo ( 19 September 1757 ), nor the fall of Bestuzhev ( 21 February 1758 ), nor the cabals and intrigues of the various foreign powers at Saint Petersburg, interfered with the progress of the war, and the crushing defeat of Kunersdorf ( 12 August 1759 ) at last brought Frederick to the verge of ruin.

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

Others were his ingenious Satire on False Perspective ( 1753 ); his satire on canvassing in his Election series ( 1755 – 1758 ; now in Sir John Soane's Museum ); his ridicule of the English passion for cockfighting in The Cockpit ( 1759 ); his attack on Methodism in Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism ( 1762 ); his political anti-war satire in The Times, plate I ( 1762 ); and his pessimistic view of all things in Tailpiece, or The Bathos ( 1764 ).

Sabbath Day Point was used a landing place in 1758 for British armies en route to attack the French at Fort Carillion and again in 1759 when General Jeffery Amherst finally succeeded in capturing Fort Carillon.

The Nottingham and Derby Road was turnpiked in 1758 – 1759, and dis-turnpiked in 1870.

As the Seven Years ' War entered its later stages through 1758 and 1759, French forces and colonies in northeastern North America came under renewed attacks from British troops.

He served under Wolfe on the Rochefort expedition of 1757, when he first met Shelburne, and afterwards in Canada where he was appointed adjutant-general, fighting at both Louisbourg ( 1758 ) and Quebec ( 1759 ).

Montcalm met with notable successes in 1756, 1757 and 1758 but British mobilisation of large numbers of troops against New France led to military setbacks in 1758 and 1759, culminating in Montcalm's death at the Battle of Quebec.

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.

* 17 January 1758 – 3 February 1759: HG The Dowager Duchess of Hamilton

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.

Gage, who had been brevetted a brigadier general for the 1758 campaign, received in 1759 a full promotion to the position, largely through the political manoeuvring of his brother, Lord Gage.

* vacant 1758 – 1759

Starting at about age 15 during the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years War ), Brant took part with Mohawk and other Iroquois allies in a number of British actions against the French in Canada: James Abercrombie's 1758 expedition via Lake George that ended in utter defeat at Fort Carillon ; Johnson's 1759 Battle of Fort Niagara ; and Jeffery Amherst's 1760 expedition to Montreal via the St. Lawrence River.

In America they had lost Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Quebec ( 1759 ), and some possessions in the West Indies ; in India, the British victories at Plassey ( 1757 ) and Pondichéry ( 1761 ) had destroyed French power ; on the sea, the French took Port Mahón from the British ( 1757 ) but were defeated by Hawke in Quiberon Bay ( 1759 ).

In 1775, Fort Ticonderoga's location did not appear to be as strategically important as it had been in the French and Indian War, when the French famously defended it against a much larger British force in the 1758 Battle of Carillon, and when the British captured it in 1759.

The events triggered by the attempted murder of King Joseph I of Portugal in 1758 ended with the public execution of the entire Távora family and its closest relatives in 1759.

In 1759, Bernard de Jussieu arranged the plants in the royal garden of the Trianon at Versailles, according to his own scheme.

: First recorded performance: according to the 1669 records for the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the play had recently been performed at Blackfriars, but no further information is given ; earliest definite performance in 1759 when it was staged by David Garrick.

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.

The Brühl Palace at Warsaw was rebuilt according to the designs by Joachim Daniel von Jauch from 1754 to 1759.

The same could be said of the works of Voltaire, particularly his comedic and philosophically satirical novel, Candide, which, according to recent research, sold more than 20, 000 copies in its first month alone in 1759.

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

One indication of Guadeloupe's prosperity at this time is that in the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), France, defeated in war, again, agreed to abandon its territorial claims in Canada if the British returned Guadeloupe, which was captured in 1759.

The movement, from 1772 until 1805, involved Herder as well as polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ) and Friedrich Schiller ( 1759 – 1805 ), a poet and historian.

Image: Geumgangjeon. jpg | View of Geumgang, Jeong Seon ( 1676 – 1759 ), 1734, Korean

* John Young ( seigneur ) ( c. 1759 – 1819 ), Scottish-born Canadian land entrepreneur, jurist, and politician

In 1759, to support his dean in a church squabble, Sterne wrote A Political Romance ( later called The History of a Good Warm Watch-Coat ), a Swiftian satire of dignitaries of the spiritual courts.

His major publication prior to Tristram Shandy was the satire A Political Romance ( 1759 ), aimed at conflicts of interest within York Minster.

* 1828 – Maria Feodorovna ( Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg ), wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia ( b. 1759 )

* 1759 – Maria Feodorovna ( Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg ), Russian empress ( d. 1828 )

In a move to gain control of the reducciones wealth, the Spanish king Charles III ( 1759 – 88 ), expelled the Jesuits in 1767.

In Spain, they appeared to be safe, but Charles III of Spain ( 1759 – 88 ), aware of the drawn-out contentions in Bourbon France, decided on a more peremptory efficiency.

The Jesuits had been expelled from Brasil ( 1754 ), Portugal ( 1759 ), France ( 1764 ), Spain and its colonies ( 1767 ) and Parma ( 1768 ).

Equally influential, if not more so, however, have been earlier pieces of political fiction such as Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ), Candide ( 1759 ) and Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ).

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

* William Pitt the Younger ( 1759 – 1806 ), who also served as Prime Minister ; never married.

* August 14 – Henriette-Anne of France ( died 1752 ) and Princess Louise-Élisabeth of France ( died 1759 ), twin daughters of King Louis XV of France

British victories continued in all theaters in the Annus Mirabilis of 1759, when they finally captured Ticonderoga, James Wolfe defeated Montcalm at Quebec ( in a battle that claimed the lives of both commanders ), and victory at Fort Niagara successfully cut off the French frontier forts further to the west and south.

* Ferdinand VI of Spain ( 1713 – 1759 ), became king 1746

* Ferdinand IV of Naples ( 1751 – 1825 ), king in 1759, also known as Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies

In the tenth edition of Systema naturae ( 1759 ), he merged grisea with glauca, and raised the four remaining varieties to species status.