The last known event of this sort was the destruction of the Duke of Aveiro's palace in Lisbon in 1759, due to his participation in the Távora affair ( a conspiracy against King Joseph I of Portugal ).

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.

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.

* 1759, January 13 — All members of the Távora family are executed for high-treason and attempted regicide by orders of the Marquis of Pombal.

Fürstenberg-Weitra emerged as a partition of Fürstenberg-Stühlingen, and was partitioned between itself and Fürstenberg-Taikowitz in 1759.

In 1759, after an unhappy marriage to her music teacher James Abington, a royal trumpeter, she is mentioned in the bills as " Mrs Abington ".

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.

In 1783, after the war, he married Jane Cook ( also born in Christian County, in 1759 to William Cook and his wife Sarah Simpson ).

Johnson's advance stopped at Fort William Henry, and the French withdrew to Ticonderoga point, where they began the construction of Fort Carillon ( later renamed Fort Ticonderoga after British capture 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.

Britain eventually gained control of Quebec City and Montreal after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and Battle of Fort Niagara in 1759, and the Battle of the Thousand Islands and Battle of Sainte-Foy in 1760.

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.

The so-called " new " dialects arose from colonization after 1759 which went on well into the late 19th century.

In 1759, after the capture of Fort Duquesne in Allegheny County, a road was built between the fort ( which was renamed to Fort Pitt ) to the newly built Fort Bedford in Raystown.

They were toll roads in the 18th century, before and after the dismantling of the permanent Tyburn gallows " tree " at their junction in 1759.

The French and Indian War, however, prevented settlement until after the 1759 Fall of Quebec.

Montague Township was supposedly named after the George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, as suggested by King George II, who approved the royal patent on March 26, 1759.

" Britain gained control of Fort Niagara in 1759, during the French & Indian War, after a nineteen-day siege.

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.

The house was built from 1759 to 1771 for Edwin Lascelles, whose family had bought the estate after making its fortune in the West Indies through Customs positions, slave trading and lending money to planters.

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.

Meanwhile the British army, left behind in Quebec after the fleet sailed at the end of October 1759, suffered from hunger, scurvy and the travails of living in a city that they had largely destroyed in the siege.

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.

In 1759 the Achilles captured a powerful French privateer, after two hours ’ fighting.

In 1759, after having lived in Geneva less than two years, Voltaire had purchased the estate of Ferney in France, near the Swiss border.

After the assassination of Alamgir II in 1759, the Peshwa under the sway of Sadashivrao Bhau had reached the peak of its short-lived power particularly when their involvement in the assassination had become eminent when he discussed abolishing the Mughal Empire and placing Vishwasrao on the throne in Delhi by bribing or deposing Imad-ul-Mulk.

Anson oversaw Britain's naval response to a more serious French invasion attempt in 1759.

On the night of 13 September 1759 he was part of the forlorn hope, the twenty-four volunteers leading the British attempt to climb the cliffs rising above the St. Lawrence River.

His principal work, Tentamen Theoriae Electricitatis et Magnetismi ( An Attempt at a Theory of Electricity and Magnetism ), published at St Petersburg in 1759, was the first systematic attempt to apply mathematical reasoning to these subjects.

The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building.

With the acquisition of Montagu House the first exhibition galleries and reading room for scholars opened on 15 January 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.

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.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany, three pioneer physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuths ( 1759 – 1839 ) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ( 1778 – 1852 ) – created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics.

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.

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.

* Dowager Princess Anne, his mother, from 1751 to her death in 1759 ;

* Dowager Princess Marie Louise, his grandmother, from 1759 to her death in 1765 ;

Empress Joséphine had the Belgian artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté ( 1759 – 1840 ) record her roses ( and lilies ), and prints of these works sell quite well, even today.

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

Hastings ’ first wife, Mary, had died in 1759 and he planned to marry the Baroness once she had obtained a divorce from her husband.

His Ode for St Cecilia's Day was performed at Ranelagh Gardens in 1759 ; and in 1760 he returned to London in good health and with a young family ; the eldest child, a girl of eight, surprised the public by her attainments as a harpsichord player.

While the gradual conquest of New France by the British, culminating in Wolfe's victory at the Plains of Abraham in 1759, deprived France of her North American empire, the ' French of Canada ' - Acadians, Québécois, Métis, and others-remained.

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.

She continued to act as regent until her death from dropsy in 1759, at The Hague, Netherlands, when she was replaced by her mother-in-law, Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and by Duke Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

After her death in 1758 he married secondly Tryphena, daughter of Thomas Scawen, in 1759.

She had no surviving male issue and the titles became extinct on her death in 1759.

The translation, published ten years after her death in 1759, is still considered the standard French translation.

Born in Belfast to Charles Hamilton ( d. 1759 ), a Scottish merchant, and his wife Katherine Mackay ( d. 1767 ), she lived most of her life in Scotland, moving there in 1762 to live with a Mrs Marshall, her paternal aunt, near Stirling and spending much of her later life in Edinburgh.

* Princess Marie Louise Élisabeth ( 1727 – 1759 ), twin with her younger sister, Henriette ; married Philip, Duke of Parma ( 1720 – 1765 ), who was also an infante of Spain.

Lee's mother, Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee, was the great-granddaughter of Martha ( Dandridge ) Custis, who was a widow living at her White House Plantation in New Kent County ( which Rooney Lee later inherited ) when she was courted by Colonel George Washington before their marriage in 1759.

One of the daughters, Mary Nicholson, never married, and left her portion to her nephew, John Lyon, who by 1759 became the ninth Earl of Strathmore.

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 ".