1st May » Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
27th June » General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
25th July » French and Indian War: In Western New York, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé.
25th November » An Near East earthquakes of 1759 known as earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.
31st December » Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at Pound sterling named £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
Famous Birthdays in 1759
25th January » Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
31st January » François Devienne, French flute player and composer (d. 1803)
15th February » Friedrich August Wolf, German philologist and critic (d. 1824)
20th February » Johann Christian Reil, German physician (d. 1813)
22nd March » Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1818)
18th April » Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer (d. 1823)
27th April » Mary Wollstonecraft, English author and philosopher (d. 1797)
13th May » Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1824)
15th May » Maria Theresia von Paradis, Austrian music performer and composer (d. 1824)
20th May » William Thornton, Virgin Islander-American architect, designed the United States Capitol (d. 1828)
28th May » William Pitt the Younger, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
21st June » Alexander J. Dallas (statesman) named Alexander J. Dallas, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1817)
19th July » Marianna Auenbrugger, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1782)
19th July » Seraphim of Sarov, Russian monk and saint (d. 1833)
24th August » William Wilberforce, English politician and philanthropist (d. 1833)
15th September » Cornelio Saavedra, Argentinean general and politician (d. 1829)
19th September » William Kirby (entomologist) or William Kirby, English entomologist (d. 1850)