* Henry Singleton ( 1682 – 1759 ) the eminent judge and friend of Jonathan Swift, was a lifelong resident of Drogheda.

* John Anderson ( carpenter ) ( 1759 – 1832 ), friend of Robert Burns

His 1759 paper " An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Water and Wind to Turn Mills and Other Machines Depending on Circular Motion " addressed the relationship between pressure and velocity for objects moving in air ( Smeaton noted that the table doing so was actually contributed by " my friend Mr Rouse " " an ingenious gentleman of Harborough, Leicestershire " and calculated on the basis of Rouse's experiments ), and his concepts were subsequently developed to devise the ' Smeaton Coefficient '.

* Letters from Juliet Lady Catesby to her friend, Lady Henrietta Campley – 1760 ( a translation from the original French by Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, 1759 )

After dining with his old friend Sir Peter Thompson, Ames was seized with an attack that brought about his death that evening, 7 October 1759, in the seventy-first year of his life.

In 1759 a Franciscan monk mentioned, but not identified by name, by Viera y Clavijo wrote to a friend: " I was most desirous to see the island of San Borondon and, finding myself in Alexero, La Palma, on 3 May at six of the morning, I saw, and can swear to it on oath, that while having in plain view at the same time the island of El Hierro, I saw another island of the same colour and appearance, and I made out through a telescope, much wooded terrain in its central area.

* 1692 – John Henley, English clergyman ( d. 1759 )

* 1759 A Journey Through Europe published by John Jefferys, the earliest board game with a designer whose name is known.

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.

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

In 1759 he formed a partnership with John Craig, an architect and businessman, to manufacture and sell a line of products including musical instruments and toys.

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.

This is the upper portion of John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse, which was originally built on the Eddystone Rocks ( 22. 5 km south ) in 1759.

* September 5 – John Forbes, British general ( died 1759 )

* August 3 – John Henley, English minister ( d. 1759 )

* John Kennedy ( 1759 – 1842 ), English nurseryman, of Lee and Kennedy

* John Kennedy, 8th Earl of Cassilis ( 1700 – 1759 ), Scottish peer

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 ).

* Caleb Stark ( 1759 – 1838 ), Revolutionary War era officer ; son of Gen. John Stark

John Mayne was born in Dumfries in 1759 and contributed in the field of poetry.

* William Joseph Williams ( 1759 – 1823 ), his son, artist ; painted George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Designed by the architects John Carr and Robert Adam, it was built from 1759 to 1771 for wealthy trader Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood.

His ancestors were United Empire Loyalists John Diamond ( 1759 – 1845 ) and Christiana Loyst ( 1765 – 1842 ), from Dutchess County, New York who fled to Fredericksburgh, Ontario after the Revolution.

The French were defeated at Quebec ( 1759 ) and Montreal ( 1760 ), and the remaining Miramichi settlement was subsequently burned to the ground by British Commodore John Byron ( Foul-Weather Jack ) in 1760.

( London, 1734 – 1741 ), assisted in the composition of the Athenian Letters ( London, 1810 ), edited the State Papers of John Thurloe ( London, 1742 ) and the State Papers of W. Murdin ( London, 1759 ).

Following the British defeat of the French Army in 1759, he moved to New York State, then the Province of New York, where he took out citizenship, adopted the English-American name of John Hector St. John, and in 1770 married an American woman, Mehitable Tippet.

This suit, along with the struggle over the Vinerian Professorship and other controversies, damaged his reputation within the university, as evidenced by his failure to win election as Vice Warden in April 1759, losing to John White.

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.

He declared that the first work worthy to be called opéra-comique was Philidor's 1759 Blaise le savetier, and he described the gradual divergence of Italian and French notions of comic opera, with verve, imagination and gaiety from Italian composers, and cleverness, common sense, good taste and wit from the French composers.

In 1760 a coaching inn named The George Hotel was opened on the corner of Lyme Street and Chard Street on the site of an old inn called the Cross Keys that was destroyed by fire in 1759.

Because colonial settlers believed that earthwork mounds were a prehistoric fortification, they called the settlement Redstone Old Fort ; later in the 1760s – 70s, it eventually became known as Redstone Fort or by the mid-1760s, Fort Burd named eponymously after the officer who commanded the British fort constructed in 1759.

Ferdinand VI ( Spanish: Fernando VI ; 23 September 1713 – 10 August 1759 ), called the Learned, was King of Spain from 9 July 1746 until his death.

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran ( February 28, 1712 – September 14, 1759 ) was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years ' War ( whose North American theatre is called the French and Indian War in the United States ).

* Battle of Quebec ( 1759 ), also called the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, successful capture of the city by the British in the Seven Years ' War or French and Indian War

The 11th Earl ( 1759 – 1827 ) called upon James Wyatt in 1801 to modernise the house, and create more space for picture and sculptures.

The fort played a significant part in the French and Indian War, and fell to the British in a nineteen day siege in July 1759, called the Battle of Fort Niagara.

Devices called hot air engines, or simply air engines, have been recorded from as early as 1699, around the time when the laws of gasses were first set out, and early patents include those of Henry Wood, Vicar of High Ercall near Coalbrookdale Shropshire ( English patent 739 of 1759 ) and Thomas Mead, an engineer from Sculcoats Yorkshire ( English patent 979 of 1791 ), the latter in particular containing the essential elements of a displacer type engine ( Mead termed it the transferrer ).

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 ".

The original house was built in 1759 for Loyalist John Vassall who inherited the land along what was called the King's Highway in Cambridge when he was 21.

Until what the British called the Annus Mirabilis of 1759, the French and British navies had a roughly even record of success in their many conflicts.