1759 in Great Britain

none April 2014 November 2020 1759 yes Events from the year 1759 in Great Britain. This year was dubbed an "Annus Mirabilis" due to a succession of military victories in the Seven Years' War against French-led opponents. Incumbents Monarch – George II Prime Minister – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Whig)History of Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st Duke of Newcastle - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/thomas-pelham-holles-1st-duke-of-newcastle www.gov.uk 19 June 2023 en Events 15 January – the British Museum opens at Montagu House, Bloomsbury in London.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 8 April – Robert Clive captures Masulipatam in India from the French.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 319–320 1 May – Seven Years' War: British forces capture Guadeloupe from the French.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 222 0-7126-5616-2 1 May – the foundation of Wedgwood pottery 4 July – the Royal Navy bombards Le Havre.Célestin Hippeau Le gouvernement de Normandie au XVIIe et au XVIII siècle Caen Laporte 1863 370 23 July – Keel laying of Victory at Chatham Dockyard. 25 July – Seven Years' War (French and Indian War): In Canada, British forces capture Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon Fort Rouillé. 26–27 July – Seven Years' War (French and Indian War): Battle of Ticonderoga – At the southern end of Lake Champlain, French forces withdraw from Fort Carillon which is taken by the British under General Amherst and renamed Fort Ticonderoga. 1 August – Seven Years' War: At the Battle of Minden, British-Hanoverian forces under Ferdinand of Brunswick defeat the French army of the Duc de Broglie, but due to the disobedience of the English cavalry commander Lord George Sackville, the French are able to withdraw unmolested. 18 August – Seven Years' War: At the Battle of Lagos, the British fleet of Edward Boscawen defeats a French force under Commodore de la Clue off the Portuguese coast. 10 September – Seven Years' War: Battle of Pondicherry – An inconclusive naval battle is fought off the coast of India between the French Admiral d'Aché and the British under George Pocock. The French forces are badly damaged and return home, never returning to India. 13 September – Seven Years' War (French and Indian War): Quebec is recaptured by British forces following General Wolfe's victory in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham just outside the city. Both the French Commander (the Marquis de Montcalm) and the British General Wolfe are fatally wounded. 14 September – "A Journey Through Europe; or, A Play of Geography", the earliest British board game sold. 16 October – Smeaton's Tower, John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse, is first illuminated.Eddystone Lighthouse http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/interactive/gallery/eddystone.html Trinity House 6 September 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060909043743/http://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/interactive/gallery/eddystone.html 9 September 2006 20 November – Seven Years' War: At the Battle of Quiberon Bay, the British fleet of Sir Edward Hawke defeats a French fleet under Marshal de Conflans near the coast of Brittany. This is the decisive naval engagement of the War – after this, the French are no longer able to field a significant fleet and a planned French invasion of Britain is abandoned. Unknown dates thumb|150px|Harrison's marine chronometer Clockmaker John Harrison produces his "No. 1 sea watch" ("H4"), the first successful marine chronometer.Royal Observatory Greenwich souvenir guide 2012 978-1-906367-51-0 34–35 the first precision watch and considered by many today as the most important timekeeper ever. Bank of England £10 note first issued. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, created.https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1084 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew World Heritage UNESCO 4 July 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100817210717/https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1084 17 August 2010 The song Heart of Oak is written by William Boyce with words by David Garrick. Publications Samuel Johnson's apologue The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments, embodying some of his Glasgow lectures. Laurence Sterne begins publication of his comic metafictional novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (dated 1760). Samuel Dunn's instructional manual The description and use of the universal planispheres; or, terrestrial and celestial globes in plano. Births 25 January – Robert Burns, Scottish poet (died 1796)Robert Burns (1759-1796) https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-a-z/burns-robert National Records of Scotland 27 January 2023 English 31 May 2013 28 December 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201228072555/https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-a-z/burns-robert dead 26 March – John Mayne, Scottish poet (d. 1836) 27 April – Mary Wollstonecraft, writer, philosopher and feminist (died 1797) 28 May – William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister (died 1806)History of William Pitt 'The Younger' - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/william-pitt www.gov.uk 1 July 2023 en 7 August – William Owen Pughe, lexicographer (died 1835) 12 August – Thomas Andrew Knight, horticulturalist (died 1838) 24 August – William Wilberforce, abolitionist (died 1833) 19 September – William Kirby, entomologist (died 1850) 24 September – Charles Simeon, evangelical clergyman (died 1836) 13 October – Mary Hays, writer and feminist (died 1843) 25 October – William Grenville, Prime Minister (died 1834) Deaths 11 March – John Forbes, general (born 1707) 14 April – George Frideric Handel, composer (born 1685 in Saxony-Anhalt) 7 August – John Kennedy, 8th Earl of Cassilis (born 1700) 16 August – Eugene Aram, English philologist and murderer, hanged (born 1704) 13 September – James Wolfe, general (born 1727) 10 October – Granville Elliott, military officer (born 1713) 13 October – John Henley, English minister (born 1692) See also 1759 in Wales References 1759 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1759 by country Category:1759 in Europe Category:1750s in Great Britain