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Fri Oct 13 2000 at 1:13:51
Born in 1759:
German
poet
Friederich Schiller
.
Scottish
poet
Robert Burns
.
English
author
Mary Wollstonecraft
(mother of
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
).
English botanist
James Edward Smith
, founder of the
Linnean Society
.
Hungarian
composer
Franz Krommer
.
William Pitt the Younger
,
Earl of Chatham
and future
Prime Minister
.
Mathematician
and
Physicist
Jacob Bernoulli II
.
Died in 1759:
German/English composer
George Frideric Handel
.
Carl Heinrich Graun
,
Kapellmeister
of
Frederick the Great
.
French
scientist
Pierre de Maupertuis
.
Korean
Artist
Chong Son
.
British
general
James Wolfe
, killed on the
Plains of Abraham
during the
Battle of Quebec
. (see below).
French
General
Montcalm
, killed on the during the battle of Quebec.
British painter
Charles Brooking
.
English poet
William Collins
.
Events of 1759:
The first volume of
Laurence Sterne
's novel
The Life and Opinions of
Tristram Shandy
, Gentleman
appears.
French and Indian War
/
Seven Years' War
:
One fourth of the British navy crosses the
Atlantic Ocean
to
America
. Commanded by General
James Wolfe
(and navigated by
James Cook
).
General Wolfe's troops
capture Quebec
.
While Wolfe was attacking Quebec, General
Amherst
attacks
Fort Carillon
near
Lake George
in upstate
New York
. The French abandon it and nearby
Fort St. Frederic
after
booby-trap
ping them. Both forts are destroyed. Amherst later builds
Fort Ticonderoga
on the site of Fort Carillon, and
Fort Crown Point
on the site of Fort St Frederic.
The British, aided by several thousand
Iroqouois
, capture
Fort Niagara
from the
French
.
The French (under
de Broglie
) occupy
Minden
in central
Germany
. Prince
Ferdinand of Brunswick
, aided by British and
Hanoverian
troops, destroy a large part of the French army; the French are pushed back to the
Rhine
.
The French launch a harebrained scheme to invade Great Britain; the French fleet is destroyed at
Quiberon Bay
before it can pick up the invasion force.
Frederick the Great
is routed by
Austrian
and
Russian
forces at
Kunnersdorf
.
Francois Arouet
, aka
Voltaire
, publishes his novel
Candide
.
Adam Smith
publishes his
Theory of Moral Sentiments
.
Charles III
ascends the throne of
Spain
.
In a triumph for mathematical physics, a
comet
that
Edmund Halley
had predicted would return this year actually does return; it is renamed in his honor.
1758
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1760
1758
French and Indian War
William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville
Poolesville, Maryland
Gottfried Leibniz
Earl of Chatham
Rudjer Boskovic
Louisbourg
Tristram Shandy
Seven Years' War
Montcalm
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Friedrich Schiller
George Frideric Handel
1848
Mary Wollstonecraft
1987
Robert Burns
Niagara Falls
2001