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of the usual classical subjects. Then in 1759, something untoward happened ... into some support from France. In Parma in 1759, he found a number of significant ...

Carl Heinrich Graun (May 7, 1704 - August 8, 1759) was a German composer and tenor singer. Along with Johann Adolf Hasse, he is considered to ...

Dr. William Thornton (May 20, 1759 – March 28, 1828) was an early American inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol ...

*Dumfries House, Ayrshire (1754-1759) *Edinburgh University Old College ... *Harewood House, West Yorkshire (1759-1771) *Hopetoun House, West Lothian ...

a plantation house on the Potomac River, in 1759. He and his wife had twelve ... House of Burgesses elected Mason in 1759. Mason powerful writing style ...

Nations (1776) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). because of his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) where he emphasized the important ...

taieb.net/auteurs/Quesnay/Qimages/1759.jpg Tableau Economique] shows ... created are the same (Quesnay 1758, 1759). ==Critique== ...

first volumes of which were published in 1759. Sterne was at work on his ... Shandy was the satire, A Political Romance (1759), aimed at conflicts of interest ...

1759 saw some severe Prussian defeats. At the Battle of Kay, or Paltzig ... The French planned to invade the British Isles during 1759 by accumulating ...

married Colonel George Washington on January 6, 1759. Washington had been commander of the First Virginia Regiment in the French and Indian War and had ...

George Frideric Handel (February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759) was a leading composer of Baroque concerti grossi, operas, and oratorios. Born ...

*Philotas (1759) *Fables (Fabeln) (1759) *Laokoon oder Ueber die Grenzen der Malerei ...

of composition." Then Porpora returned in 1759 to Naples. From this time Porpora's career was a series of misfortunes: His florid style ...

Louisbourg fell to the British in 1758. In 1759, the Battle of the Plains ... British public long after Wolfe's death in 1759. The European ...

doctrine was François Quesnay's (1759 - 1766) axiom that only agriculture ... a Frenchman named Vincent de Gournay (1712-1759) is reputed to have asked ...

becoming tutor in the family of the Earl of Bute. In 1759, Ferguson became professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and in 1764 ...

*La Cythère assiégée, Vienna, (early 1759) *Le diable à quatre, ou La double métamorphose (1759) ...

Saint Seraphim of Sarov (Russian: Серафим Саровский) (July 19, 1759 – January 2, 1833), born Prokhor Moshnin (Прохор ...

Margaret and Mary, Holding a Cat, (about 1759). ===Return to Suffolk=== ... In 1759 he moved his family to Bath. The commissions came quickly ...

and lighter than the Rambler essays. In 1759, Johnson published his satirical ... * The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759) * The Plays of ...

confrontation, which began on September 13, 1759, was fought between the British ... entered its latter stages through 1758 and 1759, French forces and colonies ...

to become a prominent agriculturist. From 1759 until the outbreak of the ... When Washington married Martha Custis in 1759, she brought 11 slaves to ...

the Viceroy transferred his residence in 1759 to the future capital, Panaji ... the Viceroy transferred his residence in 1759 to the future capital, Panaji ...

economy, led to greater note issue. In 1759, during the Seven Years War ... The first ten pound note was issued in 1759, when the Seven Years ...

medicine at Harvard University, graduating in 1759, and then teaching for a time at the Roxbury Latin School. He married 18-year-old heiress, Elizabeth ...

Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796) was a popular Scottish ... that the correct date was January 25, 1759. Since then suppers have been ...

===French Colonial era (1604-1759)=== History of the Acadians ... up the Saint John River in both 1758 and 1759. Fort Anne (Fredericton) fell ...

signed 22 February 1963; Federal Register 28 FR 1759, February 26, 1963 [[Image:President Reagan presents Mother Teresa with the Medal of Freedom ...

ideas were now being openly published. In 1759, the Encyclopédie was formally ... the intellectual capital of Europe. Between 1759 and 1779, Diderot helped Grimm ...

Mary Wollstonecraft (April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797) was a British intellectual, writer, philosopher, and early feminist. She wrote several ...

* Alamgir II, b. 1699, ruler from 1754-1759==son of Jahandar Shah * Shah Jahan III, ruler 1759 * Shah Alam II, b. 1728, ruler from 1759-1806 ...

first opened to the public on January 15, 1759, in Montagu House in Bloomsbury ... blogspot.com/2012/01/15th-january-1759-british-museum-opens.html ...

#039;s Church in Westminster, dated February 9, 1759, records an Olaudah Equiano born in Carolina, and a navy muster roll of 1773 records Equiano's ...

*Blackstone, William. 1997 (original 1759). An Analysis of the Laws of England: To Which Is Prefixed an Introductory Discourse on the Study of ...

William Pitt the Younger (May 28, 1759 – January 23, 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ...

Harte (1759), 346. In February 1633, following the death of the king ... Adolphus, King of Sweden. London, UK: G. Hawkins, 1759. ...

|Newport, Rhode Island & Atlantic Ocean, pirates, 1759 ... |Leatherstocking, Western New York, 1759 |- |1840 |Mercedes of Castile: ...

* Jeong Seon (1676-1759), a literati painter influenced by the Wu ... Image:Geumgangjeon.jpg|Jeong Seon (1676-1759), A View of Geumgang ...

Werke von Margareta Klopstock (1759), which give evidence of a tender, sensitive and deeply religious spirit. Klopstock now relapsed into melancholy; ...

indignation. Voltaire's Candide (1759) gleefully poked fun at the ... and his comic novella Candide (1759) remains one of the most entertaining ...

father was a ship's captain who died in 1759. Henry left school at the age of 12, and became a clerk in a bookstore to support his mother. He later ...

of the Enlightenment by the publication in 1759 of Sokratische Denkwürdigkeiten (Socratic Memorabilia), and the following year of a collection ...

* Alamgir II, born 1699, ruler from 1754-1759, died 1759. ... * Shah Alam II, born 1728, ruler from 1759-1806, died 1806. Ruled ...

During the pivotal year of 1759, he participated in the defense of the capital of New France, the fortified Quebec City. With a small elite troop ...

calculated the date of the comet's 1759 perihelion (closest approach ... and successfully predicted its return in 1759, that comet became known as ...

world”) in the comic novella Candide (1759), One of the most widely read ... *Candide (Geneva, 1759) *Portable Philosophical Dictionary (Geneva, 1764) ...

steadily increased. He became (1756-1759) the leading spirit of Friedrich Nicolai's important literary undertakings, the Bibliothek and ...

resupply during the winter. On September 5, 1759, after successfully convincing ... Quebec City was captured by the British in 1759 and held until 1763 ...

quot; in the Life of St Seraphim of Sarov (1759 – 1833); and, more recently, in the reminiscences of Elder Porphyrios. Orthodox Tradition warns ...

elite is generally regarded to begin with the 1759 publication of Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe, which earned him the ...

ceramics factory in Stoke-on-Trent, England, in 1759. Austrian chemist Karl Bayer, working for the textile industry in Russia, developed a process to ...

serving under Major General Jeffrey Amherst. In 1759, Amherst ordered Gage to march against the French and seize Fort la Présentation (sometimes known ...

" Vincent de Gournay (1712-1759), is reputed to have asked ... (1694-1774) in his Tableau Économique (1759). Quesnay argued that agricultural ...

were followed by victory for the Afghans, and by 1759, Ahmad and his army had reached Lahore and were poised to confront the Marathas. By 1760, the ...

home and had five sons, James (1757-1821), Winslow (1759-1791), Charles (1762-1784), Henry (1764-1828), and George (1766-1800). [[Image:James ...

*Cantillon, Richard. 1759. [https://www.econlib.org/library/NPDBooks/Cantillon/cntNT.html "Essai sur la Nature du Commerce in Général ...

Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) was a Scottish poet and songwriter, who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland ...

William Wilberforce (August 1759 - July 1833) was born in the great northern seaport of Hull and served in the English Parliament from 1780 to ...

In 1759, General James Wolfe defeated General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm ... [https://www.republiquelibre.org/cousture/1759B.HTM 1759: the conquest ...

physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuth (1759 – 1839) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778 – 1852), considered the father of modern gymnastics ...

The Manchus invaded East Turkistan in 1759 and dominated it until ... The Manchus invaded East Turkistan in 1759 and dominated it until 1864 ...

Swedenborg. The first was from July 19, 1759, when during a dinner in Gothenburg ... #039;s description of the fire in 1759. Kant presents a report of ...

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (November 10, 1759 – May 9, 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher ...

to be so honored; the first was Benjamin Franklin in 1759. Today, a scholarship exchange bearing the Jones name exists between the University of Saint ...

father in the care of his small plantation. In 1759, a year or two after his father's death, he became the owner of his own plantation at Pond ...

Georges Jacques Danton (October 26, 1759 – April 5, 1794) was a noted orator, a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution ...

of the British at Negrais in October, 1759, is supposed to have been ... for the Negrais massacre of October 1759 and to wind up the affairs ...

oratorio performances. From 1735 until his death in 1759, he gave regular seasons there, and many of his operas and oratorios were written for Covent ...

managed to defeat them at Chinsura on November 25, 1759. Thereafter Mir Jafar was deposed as Nawab (1760) and they appointed Mir Kasim Ali Khan, (Mir ...

|[[File:AduC 140 Aubert de Bayet (J.B.A., 1759-1797).JPG|80px]] |Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet(1759–1797) |July 8, 1792 ...

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) * Die Räuber (Drama) 1781 ... von einem Liebhaber der langen Weile 1759 * Kreuzzüge des Philologen 1762 ...

* Harte, Walter. 1759. Vol. 2, The History of the Life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden. London, UK: G. Hawkins. * Lockhart, Paul. 2004. Sweden ...

. In the tenth edition of Systema naturae (1759), he merged grisea with glauca, and raised the four remaining varieties to species status. (Magnolia ...

The promotion did not come, and so, in 1759, Washington resigned his commission ... * 1759–1775: Retired from active military service. * June 1775: Commissioned ...

ended in victory for the Afghans. By 1759, Ahmad Shah and his army had reached Lahore and were poised to confront the Marathas. By 1760, the ...

with the forces of General Henry Hawley (1679-1759), near Falkirk, and were victorious. The Duke of Cumberland arrived in Edinburgh on January 30 ...

by all the public executioners in the realm. In 1759, an English authority estimated that each year a fourth of the prisoners had died from gaol fever ...

father was killed at the Battle of Minden in 1759, and his mother and grandfather died in 1770. He married at 16 to Marie-Adrienne-Françoise de Noailles ...

In 1759 Mesmer went to Vienna, first studying law, but then changed to medicine, receiving his medical doctorate on May 27, 1766. His dissertation ...

Under Portuguese royal patronage, the order thrived in Goa and until 1759 successfully expanded its activities to education and healthcare. On ...

The British succeeded in capturing the fort in 1759 after repeated attempts, forcing the French out of the valley. The following year, the settlement ...

works were collected by Coxeter (4 vols., 1759, revised edition with introduction by Thomas Davies, 1779), by J. Monck Mason (4 vols., 1779) ...

was founded in 1753 and opened to the public in 1759. Sir Isaac Sloan's personal collection of curios provided the initial foundation for the ...

Mannerheim's great-grandfather, Carl Erik Mannerheim (1759-1837), had held a number of offices in Finland's civil service, including ...

Arnold's mother, to whom he was very close, died in 1759. The youth took on the responsibility of supporting his ailing father and younger ...

times by Great Britain, the first time between 1759 and 1763. During this time Pointe-à-Pitre was developed into a major harbor enabling planters ...

Princess of Orange||2 November 1709||12 January 1759||married, 1734, William IV, Prince of Orange; had issue |- |Princess Amelia Sophia||10 July ...

a short time before returning to England in April 1759. There he set up a corset shop in Sandwich, Kent. In September of that year, Paine married Mary ...

period following the Acadian Expulsion. Between 1759 and 1768, about 8,000 New England Planters responded to Governor Charles Lawrence's request ...

first known effort to harness the waters was in 1759, when Daniel Joncairs built a small canal above the Falls to power his sawmill. Augustus and Peter ...

English passion for cockfighting in The Cockpit (1759); his attack on Methodism in Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism (1762); his political anti ...

brewed at the St. James' Gate Brewery since 1759. Since the advent of the Celtic Tiger years, however, a large number of global pharmaceutical ...

Canada via Lake George, William Johnson's 1759 Battle of Fort Niagara, and Jeffery Amherst's 1760 siege of Montreal via the Saint Lawrence ...

elements. Voltaire's French novel Candide (1759) contains elements of the picaresque. An interesting variation on the tradition of the picaresque ...

In 1759 (1757 according to the New Grove Encyclopedia), Haydn received his first important position, that of Kapellmeister or music director ...

but his Theory of Moral Sentiments of 1759 also attempted to strike out ... Jonathan Swift with his Tristram Shandy (1759–1767). Tristram seeks to ...

William IV (William Henry; August 21, 1765 – June 20, 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from ...

was George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), who was born in Germany, studied for three years in Italy, but would go to London in 1711, and use ...

[[Image:1759_map_Holy_Land_and_12_Tribes.jpg|thumb|right|400px|1759 map of the tribal allotments of Israel]] The Israelites descended from the ...

The contemporaries Tyagaraja (1759-1847), Muthuswami Dikshitar, (1776 - 1827) and Syama Sastri, (1762-1827) are regarded as the Trinity of Carnatic ...

coins. Irish companies such as Guinness since 1759, Harp Lager since 1960, Irish Independent since 1961 (originally in black but in green since 1972 ...

sur l'Etude de la Littérature in 1761. From 1759 to 1763, Gibbon spent four years in active service with the Hampshire militia and another seven ...

Faustus, mentioned in a contribution to a magazine (1759), but otherwise left unfinished and collected and published posthumously (1784) in its original ...

has been celebrated in Montreal since as far back as 1759 by Irish soldiers in the Montreal Garrison following the British conquest of New France. ...

grounds in 1750, but abandoned it in 1759. Fort Rouillé, Jarvis Collegiate Institute (2006). During the American Revolutionary War, the region ...

In 1759, a conflict erupted between British colonists and Cherokee Indians, their former allies in the French and Indian War. After the Yadkin ...

from the capital city of Québec. In 1759, following the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, in the French and Indian War (1754–1763), Québec ...

*William Pitt the Younger (May 28, 1759 – January 23, 1806), who also served as Prime Minister; he never married. *Lady Harriet Pitt (bef. 1770 ...

thwarted, and an armistice was signed in 1759. [[image:Gururinpochen.jpg|thumb|240px| Guru Rinpoche, the patron saint of Sikkim. The 118-foot ...

After the death of Krishnaraja Wodeyar II in 1759, Hyder Ali, Commander-in-Chief of the Mysore Army, proclaimed himself the de facto ruler of Mysore ...

File:Anonyme - Portrait de Georges Danton (1759-1794), orateur et homme politique - P712 - musée Carnavalet.jpg|Danton File:Robespierre.jpg|Robespierr ...

Plains of Abraham at [[Quebec City|Quebec]] in 1759, part of the Seven Years' War.]] The Royal Proclamation (1763) carved the Province of ...

The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant, and in France as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 or Combat de Prairial) ...

In 1759, at the urging of his former pupil the Prince of Wales (soon to be George III), her father was made Clerk of the Works to the Royal Household ...

serving as an officer in the British military 1753-1759), took charge, and when he acquired cannon in spring 1776, the British were forced to leave, ...

death of the last Dzungar ruler, Dawa Achi, in 1759, the Qianlong Emperor declared an end to the Dzungar campaigns. === Period of Open Conflict === ...

ideas of Voltaire or Montesquieu appeared in 1759. After the suspension of pre-publication censorship on the part of the Council of Castile in 1785 ...

at the Battle of the Heights of Abraham in 1759. These battles ended French ... William Blake (1757-1827), Robert Burns (1759–1796), William Wordsworth ...

a fixed point such as the Greenwich Meridian. In 1759, John Harrison, a clockmaker, designed such an instrument and Cook used it in his voyages of exploration ...

1753). His Zadig (1747) and Candide (1759) became central texts of the ... and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767), with its rejection ...

Joseph I made his loyal minister Count of Oeiras in 1759. Made Marquis of Pombal in 1770, de Melo effectively ruled Portugal until Joseph I's death ...

has been hit by strong earthquakes, notably in 1759, 1902, 1978 and 1995.url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-data?locInclude ...