In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments.

Dom Mabillon's Letters and Orations of St. Ambrose of Camaldoli was published at Florence, 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.

At the Salon of 1759 he exhibited nine paintings ; it was the first Salon to be commented upon by Denis Diderot, who would prove to be a great admirer and public champion of Chardin's work.

In 1759, the Encyclopédie was formally suppressed.

In 1759 Algarotti was involved in a new opera-style in the city of Parm.

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.

George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; ) ( 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759 ) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.

* was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1759 and sold in 1784.

In 1759, on the death of Carl Heinrich Graun, he was appointed conductor of the royal orchestra.

In 1759, Lind discovered that the steam of heated salt water was fresh.

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.

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

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.

The term Quaternary (" fourth ") was proposed by Giovanni Arduino in 1759 for alluvial deposits in the Po river valley in northern Italy.

In 1759, following a donation, another chair in economy was established, the Borgströmian professorship in " practical economy ", by which was meant the practical application of the natural sciences for economic purposes ( it eventually developed into a chair for physiological botany ).

The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by King's Chapel in Boston, which settled James Freeman ( 1759 – 1835 ) in 1782, and revised the Prayer Book into a mild Unitarian liturgy in 1785.

Year 1759 ( MDCCLIX ) was a common year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar ).

* the British Museum in London, was founded in 1753 and opened to the public in 1759.

Another early public museum was the British Museum in London, which opened to the public in 1759.

Since medieval times, Thessaloniki was hit by strong earthquakes, notably in 1759, 1902, 1978 and 1995.

* 1759 – The Aula do Comércio in Lisbon was the first institution to specialise in the teaching of accounting in the world.

On the other hand, it is not too much to say that, from the end of 1759 to the end of 1761, the unshakable firmness of the Russian Empress was the one constraining political force which held together the heterogeneous, incessantly jarring elements of the anti-Prussian combination.

The tower, which rises to, contains a bell dating from 1759 made by Thomas Bilbie of the Bilbie family.

Based upon his swift resolve, Joseph I made his loyal minister Count of Oeiras in 1759.

In 1759, decades after the deaths of both Newton and Hooke, Alexis Clairaut, mathematical astronomer eminent in his own right in the field of gravitational studies, made his assessment after reviewing what Hooke had published on gravitation.

This in turn makes it understandable how in 1759, decades after the deaths of both Newton and Hooke, Alexis Clairaut, mathematical astronomer eminent in his own right in the field of gravitational studies, made his assessment after reviewing what Hooke had published on gravitation.

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

Route 7 crosses the Hackensack River on the Wittpenn BridgeThe Belleville Turnpike was created in 1759 as a turnpike made out of cedar logs and was chartered in 1808.

A drawing of The Needles by Dutch landscape artist Lambert Doomer ( 1624 – 1700 ) made in 1646 depicts a rock formation with much stouter shape than that shown in Isaac Taylor's 1759 " one inch " map of Hampshire.

In the Battle of Minden on 1 August 1759, British and Hanoverian infantry of the centre made an advance on the French cavalry and artillery in that sector.

The first appearance of the invisible hand in Smith occurs in The Theory of Moral Sentiments ( 1759 ) in Part IV, Chapter 1, where he describes a selfish landlord as being led by an invisible hand to distribute his harvest to those who work for him: " The proud and unfeeling landlord views his extensive fields, and without a thought for the wants of his brethren, in imagination consumes himself the whole harvest ... the capacity of his stomach bears no proportion to the immensity of his desires ... the rest he will be obliged to distribute among those, who prepare, in the nicest manner, that little which he himself makes use of, among those who fit up the palace in which this little is to be consumed, among those who provide and keep in order all the different baubles and trinkets which are employed in the economy of greatness ; all of whom thus derive from his luxury and caprice, that share of the necessaries of life, which they would in vain have expected from his humanity or his justice ... The rich ... are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society ..."

In reward for his swift resolve, Joseph I made his loyal minister Count of Oeiras in 1759.

* The stand made by General Wolfe outside Quebec's Citadel in 1759 when the British took over New France from the French.

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 list was noted privately by Le Gentil in 1759, but only made public in 1892 by Guillaume Bigourdan.

After spending the winter in command of the forward British position at Fort Edward, he was made second in command on the 1759 expedition of John Prideaux against Fort Niagara ; he was placed in charge of the key supply and communication point at Oswego, New York, where he oversaw the construction of Fort Ontario.

He made it for his third marine chronometer ( H3 ) of 1759 to compensate for temperature-induced changes in the balance spring.

He was made Captain on 14 June 1759, Rear-Admiral of the Blue in 1761 and Vice-Admiral of the Blue in 1762.

When Charles of Naples became Charles III of Spain in 1759, Tanucci was made president of the council of regency instituted for the nine-year-old Ferdinand IV, who even when he reached his majority preferred to leave the government in Tanucci's capable hands, constantly overseen from Spain by Charles III.

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.

With this rank he served in the French and Indian War, notably partaking in the Battle of Fort Carillon under General Abercrombie as one of the general's aides in 1758 before being made aide-de-camp to General Amherst in 1759.

The first successful marine chronometers, H4 and H5, made by John Harrison in 1759 and 1770, used verge escapements with diamond pallets.

Robert Craggs-Nugent, as he then was, served as a Lord of the Treasury from 1754 to 1759, and was made a Privy Counsellor in 15 December 1759.

The larger three of the five were made in Dublin and presented in 1759 by the Limerick Corporation.

In 1759, he was made quartermaster general.