Today in History for Year 1759

Months in Year 1759: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 26 of 26

Jan 11th - 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia
Jan 15th - British Museum opens in Montague House, London
Jan 16th - British Museum opens in London
Feb 28th - Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
Mar 13th - 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
Apr 8th - British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India
Apr 13th - French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen
Apr 20th - George Frideric Handel is buried in Westminster Abbey
May 1st - British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West-Indies, on France
May 31st - The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
Jun 27th - General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
Jul 25th - British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
Jul 26th - French troops vacate Ticonderoga NY
Aug 1st - Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France
Aug 10th - Carlos III becomes king of Spain
Aug 12th - Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians
Aug 18th - -19] 2nd sea battle of Lagos: England vs France
Sep 12th - British soldiers capture the town of Quebec.
Sep 13th - British beat French forces at Plains of Abrahams (Quebec)
British Army Officer that Defeated the French in Canada James Wolfe Sep 14th - Austrian troops occupy Dresden
Sep 18th - Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British who capture Quebec City
Oct 31st - Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred
Nov 20th - -22] Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French
Nov 21st - Battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians
Nov 24th - Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
Dec 13th - 1st music store in America opens (Phila)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 42 of 42

Jan 4th - Maria Rosa Coccia, composer
Jan 5th - Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader
Jan 17th - Paul Cuffe, Mass, merchant/shipbuilder/black nationalist
Jan 21st - Johan Valckenaer, Dutch politician/patriot
Jan 25th - Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne), (d. 1796)
Jan 31st - Francois Devienne, composer
Feb 15th - Friedrich A Wolfius, [Wolf], German philological (Prolegomena)
Feb 27th - Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer
Mar 2nd - Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer
Mar 22nd - Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)
Apr 18th - Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer
Apr 27th - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, England, writer/feminist (Female Reader)
May 1st - Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor
May 6th - Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician
May 15th - Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer
May 18th - Charles Duquesnoy, composer
May 20th - William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)
May 22nd - Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer
May 23rd - Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer
Poet Robert Burns (Jan 25th) May 26th - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, writer/mother of Mary Shelley
May 28th - William Pitt, the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06)
Jun 2nd - Jan Ekels, the Young, Dutch painter
Jun 5th - Theodor Zwetler, composer
Jun 8th - Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Rainham Norfolk UK, topographer
Jun 21st - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)
Jul 10th - Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer
Jul 19th - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
Jul 24th - Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21)
Aug 24th - William Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade
Sep 19th - William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)
Sep 26th - Hans D L earl Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian fieldmarshal/gov-gen
Oct 4th - Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803)
Oct 12th - Frantisek Vaclav Tomes, composer
Oct 13th - Ecco Epkema, Dutch linguist (Frisian, old-Frisian)
Oct 20th - Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815)
Oct 25th - Baron Grenville, (Whig) British PM (1806-07)
Oct 25th - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
Oct 26th - Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/min of Justice
Nov 10th - Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) (d. 1805)
Nov 13th - Timothy Olmstead, composer
Nov 20th - Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer
Nov 27th - Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Jan 6th - US 1st President George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis at White House Plantation

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 26 of 26

Jan 1st - Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)
Jan 3rd - Marquis & Marquess of Tavora, Portugese nobles, executed
Jan 5th - Thomas-Philippe et de Boussu, S Neth cardinal, dies at 79
Jan 12th - Anne of Hannover, English princess, dies at 49
Feb 15th - Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor, dies at 89
Mar 11th - John Forbes, British general (b. 1710)
Apr 8th - Francois de La Croix, composer, dies at 76
Apr 14th - Georg Friedrich Handel, organist/composer (Watermusic), dies at 74
May 12th - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
Jun 12th - William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity), dies at 37
Jun 19th - Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer, dies at 31
Jul 25th - Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39
Jul 25th - Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor, dies
Jul 27th - Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, biologist/astronomer, dies at 60
Aug 6th - Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
Aug 8th - Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55
Aug 10th - Ferdinand VI, the wise, king of Spain, dies at 46
Aug 24th - Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44
Sep 4th - Girolamo Chiti, composer, dies at 80
Composer George Friedrich Handel (Apr 14th) Sep 10th - Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (b. 1703)
Sep 13th - James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), dies in battle at 32
Sep 14th - Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47
Sep 28th - Cornelis Pronk, portrait painter/cartoonist, dies at 67
Oct 10th - Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
Oct 13th - John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)
Nov 29th - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1687)