The county was formed by European Americans in 1759 from parts of Bertie County, Chowan County, and Northampton County.

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.

It was formed in 1758 from Johnston County, though the legislative act that created it did not become effective until April 10, 1759.

He formed the regiment in Hertfordshire on 7 November 1759 as the 18th Regiment of ( Light ) Dragoons, which also went by the name of Hale's Light Horse.

In 1759 Dodsley retired, leaving the conduct of the business to his brother James ( 1724 – 1797 ), with whom he had been many years in partnership.

In 1759 he landed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and in partnership with his brother established himself as a merchant.

In 1759 the young Wentworth made his first significant investment, joining a partnership in the purchase and development of land in the Lake Winnipesaukee area.

The works was founded as a partnership on 19 September 1759.

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

The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best ( 1759 ); Candide: or, The Optimist ( 1762 ); and Candide: or, Optimism ( 1947 ).

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

Image: Thomas Gainsborough 017. jpg | Two Daughters with a Cat ( c. 1759 )

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

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.

Reggio was the capital of Calabria Ulteriore Prima with the Bourbons of Naples from 1759 to 1860.

In 1759, Putnam led a regiment in the attack on Fort Carillon ; and in 1760 he was with the British army that marched on Montreal.

In 1759, at the height of the Seven Years War, Charles was summoned to a meeting in Paris with the French foreign minister, the Duc De Choiseul.

These dialects originated from migrations from the St. Lawrence valley into the area, from 1697 onwards well into the early 19th century, with contributions of refugees from Acadia in the 18th century, both before and after the British conquest of 1759.

Amherst then led an army against French troops on Lake Champlain, where he captured Fort Ticonderoga in July 1759, while another army under Sir William Johnson took Niagara also in July 1759 and James Wolfe besieged and eventually captured Quebec with a third army in September 1759.

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.

The name and genera were based on the order with the same name that had been described by Bernard de Jussieu in 1759.

Leopold discovered that his two children were musically gifted in about 1759, when he began with keyboard lessons for the seven-year-old Nannerl.

After his father died in 1759, Banneker lived with his mother and sisters.

In 1759, Galvani graduated with degrees in medicine and philosophy.

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

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 Watt's friend, John Robison, called his attention to the use of steam as a source of motive power.

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

* 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.