The neighbour to this is the Fisher Building of 1759 ( Stc X ) The undistinguished looking Stc XI, south west side, is in fact the oldest structure in this quadrangle, 1720, originally intended as accommodation for scholars from Bristol, hence its name.

Whitehall, looking south in 1740: Inigo Jones ' Banqueting House, Whitehall | Banqueting House ( 1622 ) on the left, William Kent's Treasury buildings ( 1733-37 ) on the right, the Holbein Gate ( 1532, demolished 1759 ) at centre.

It was used again in 1759 as a departure point for a successful expedition against Fort Niagara, and in 1760 by Jeffrey Amherst's army as it moved toward Montreal.

In 1759, with Frank's encouragement, more than 500 Frankists were baptized as Catholics.

When confronted by the Polish authorities, he converted to Catholicism in 1759 in the presence of King Augustus III of Poland, together with groups of his Jewish followers, known as " Frankists ".

His victory over Prince Ferdinand at Bergen ( 1759 ) won him the rank of marshal of France from the French King Louis XV and the title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire Reichsfürst from Emperor Francis I.

Thomas Keymer sees beyond the conventional Roman à clef interpretations to call it a work that reflects the wider geo-political world in the year of publication ( 1759 ): the year in which " Britain became master of the world ".

* John Smeaton produces the first high-quality cement using hydraulic lime since Roman times for construction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse ( completed 1759, following burning down of the second in 1755 ).

His great-grandson, Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie was created prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1759 by Emperor Francis I.

According to Beverley McLachlin, freedom of religion in Canada may have originated as early as 1759, when French Canadian Roman Catholics were allowed rights of worship by their British conquerors ; this was later reconfirmed in 1774 in the Quebec Act.

A conspiracy of nobles aimed at murdering King Joseph and the Marquis gave Pombal the opportunity ( some say, the pretext ) to get rid of the Távora family, and to expel the Jesuits in September 1759, thus gaining control of public education and a wealth of church lands and ushering Portugal, which had been a backwater dominated by the High Aristocracy and a very conservative brand of Catholicism, into the Enlightenment age.

Early skirmishes were followed by victory for the Afghans against the smaller Maratha garrisons in Northwest India and by 1759 Ahmad and his army had reached Lahore and were poised to confront the Marathas.

In 1759, the possessions and jurisdictions of the diocese situated in Austria were sold to that state.

His parents were Didier Diderot ( 1675 – 1759 ) a cutler, maître coutelier and his wife Angélique Vigneron ( 1677 – 1748 ).

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.

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.

Among the most important were the Journal Œconomique ( 1721 – 1772 ), which promoted agronomy and rational husbandry and the Journal du commerce ( 1759 – 1762 ), which was heavily influenced by the Irishman Richard Cantillon ( 1680 – 1734 ), and two dominated by physiocrats ; the Journal de l ' agriculture, du commerce et des finances ( 1765 – 1774 ) and the Ephémérides du citoyen ( 1767 – 1772 and 1774 – 1776 ).

The three apparitions from 1531 to 1682 were noted by Edmond Halley, enabling him to predict its 1759 return.

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

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.

By 1759, there were 32 taxable properties in the town, including about ten hotels.

Rogers ' Rangers were forced to retreat through the county following their attack on Saint-Francis, Quebec in 1759.

In 1759 parts of Northampton County, Bertie County, and Chowan County were combined to form Hertford County.

Finally, in 1759 parts of Bertie County, Chowan County, and Northampton County were combined to form Hertford County, and Bertie was reduced to its present size.

They were toll roads in the 18th century, before and after the dismantling of the permanent Tyburn gallows " tree " at their junction in 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 ).

Portions of the township were taken to form Montague Township ( March 26, 1759 ), Sandyston Township ( February 26, 1762 ) and the now-defunct Pahaquarry Township in Warren County ( December 27, 1824 ).

Bethania was the first planned Moravian settlement in Wachovia, and members of a Society, under the care of the Bethania congregation were permitted to reside in the village, as well, after July 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.

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 '.

The situation got worse in 1759 when Fort Carillon and Fort Niagara were taken, and the key citadel of Quebec fell after a prolonged siege and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham of September 13, 1759.

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.

In 1759, the city was the staging point for a planned French invasion of Britain-thousands of troops, horses and ships being assembled there-only for many of the barges to be destroyed in the Raid on Le Havre and the invasion to be abandoned following the naval defeat at Quiberon.

It was later listed in the French territorial records in 1759 as being a town inhabited by 50 Shawnee Indian Warriors, and the name then known as Chalakagay.

She served against the French from 1756 and participated in the Battle of Lagos ( 1759 ) before being sold in 1765.

His more serious and academic Treatise on Civil Architecture published In 1759 proved influential on builders ; it went into several editions and was still being republished in 1826 ..

He also wrote some charming odes, idylls and elegies, and a small epic poem Cissides und Paches ( 1759 ), the subject being two Thessalian friends who die an heroic death for their country in a battle against the Athenians.

Young himself reinforced his reputation as a pioneer of romanticism by precept as well as by example ; in 1759, at the age of 76, he published a piece of critical prose under the title of Conjectures on Original Composition which put forward the vital doctrine of the superiority of " genius ," of innate originality being more valuable than classic indoctrination or imitation, and suggested that modern writers might dare to rival or even surpass the " ancients " of Greece and Rome … The Conjectures was a declaration of independence against the tyranny of classicism and was at once acclaimed as such becoming a milestone in the history of English, and European, literary criticism.

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 ..."

She was Regent of the Netherlands from 1751 until her death in 1759, exercising extensive powers on behalf of her son William V. Because of her English upbringing and family connections, she was known as an Anglophile-despite being unable to convince the Dutch Republic to enter the Seven Years ' War on the side of the British.

In 1958, he was named a Freeman of the City of St Andrews, becoming only the second American to be so honored, the other being Benjamin Franklin in 1759.

In 1759 he was given command of the frigate HMS Arundel being promoted to post-rank for the first time.

He produced Le diable à quatre ( 1756 ), the music being by several composers ; Blaise le savetier ( 1759 ), for the music of Danican Philidor ; On ne s ' avise jamais de tout ( 1761 ) and others with Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ; Aucassin et Nicolette ( 1780 ), Richard Coeur-de-lion ( 1784 ), and Amphitryon ( 1788 ) with André Grétry.

Horne ; being familiar with the coast of Nova Scotia, accompanied General Wolfe as a pilot, fighting under him at Quebec in 1759.

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.

He was promoted to Major-General in 1759 and took part in the British expedition against Cuba in 1762, being 2nd-in-charge at the capture of Havana during the final year of the conflict for which he received a significant amount of prize money.

In 1750 he was High Sheriff of Surrey, and in 1759 he paid the fine for being excused serving the same office for the city of London and county of Middlesex.

) On 6 October 1759, a 2000-strong Konbaung battalion overran the English fort, ending the first English colonial establishment in Burma for the time being.

Between 1754 and 1764 he published a series of theological treatises, their main tendency being to modify the rigid scholastic system by an appeal to the Fathers, notably Augustine ; from 1759 to 1762 he travelled in Germany, Italy and France, mainly with a view to examining the collections of documents in the various monastic libraries.

Hardly six months after his return Wiedewelt was named member of the newly organised Art Academy, as well as being named royal sculptor to the Danish Court in 1759, inclusive gratis studio at Materialgaarden near Frederiksholm's Canal.

Its initial popularity led to plans being drawn up for enlargement, and these were quickly put into effect in 1759.

After being wounded in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ( 1759 ), Crèvecœur resigned his commission and began travelling widely across Pennsylvania and New York.