What is 1759?
{{redlinks|date=April 2020}} {{Year nav|1759}} {{Year in various calendars|1759}} {{Year article header|1759}} == Events == * [[January 11]] – In [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], the first American life [[insurance]] company is incorporated. * [[January 13]] – The [[Tavora affair|Távora family]] is executed following the accusation of attempted regicide on [[Joseph I of Portugal]] * [[January 15]] – The [[British Museum]] opens * [[April 13]] – a [[France|French]] army defeats [[Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick]] at Brunswick * [[June 27]] – British Troops under [[Jeffrey Amherst]] take Fort Ticonderoga * [[July 25]] – [[Seven Years' War]] ([[French and Indian War]]): In [[Canada]], British forces capture [[Fort Niagara]] from French, who subsequently abandon [[Fort Rouillé]]. * [[August 1]] – [[Battle of Minden]] – Anglo-Hanoverian forces under [[Ferdinand of Brunswick]] defeat the French army of the [[Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie|Duc de Broglie]], but due to the disobedience of the English cavalry commander [[Lord George Germain|Lord George Sackville]], the French are able to withdraw unmolested. * [[August 10]] – [[Ferdinand VI of Spain]] dies and is succeeded by his half-brother [[Charles III of Spain|Charles III]]. Charles resigns the thrones of Naples and Sicily to his third son, [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies|Ferdinand IV]]. * [[August 12]] – [[Battle of Kunersdorf]] – [[Frederick the Great]] is rebuffed in bloody assaults on the combined Austro-Russian army of [[Peter Soltikov]] and [[Gideon von Loudon]]. This is one of Frederick's greatest defeats. * [[August 18]] – [[Battle of Lagos]] – The British fleet of [[Edward Boscawen]] defeats a French force under Commodore de la Clue off the Portuguese coast. * [[September 10]] – [[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 returned home, never to return. * [[September 13]] – [[Seven Years' War]] (