The year 1759 in science and technology involved several significant events. Halley's Comet returns; a team of three mathematicians, Alexis Clairaut,...

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opera. Castrato Gaspare Pacchierotti makes his debut at the Perugia carnival, in a female role. Tommaso Traetta becomes court composer at Parma. None listed...

The year 1759 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Work begins on Harewood House in Yorkshire, England, designed...

events and publications of 1759. By January 15 – Voltaire's satirical novella Candide, ou l'Optimisme is published simultaneously in five countries. January...

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The history of science and technology on the Indian subcontinent begins with the prehistoric human activity of the Indus Valley Civilisation to the early...

Events from the year 1759 in art. Thomas Gainsborough and his family move to Bath, England. Giambettino Cignaroli – Death of Cato Thomas Gainsborough...

the Plains of Abraham, in the Seven Years' War, British General James Wolfe is said to have recited Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard...

The year 1760 in science and technology involved some significant events. Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt investigates inks based on cobalt salts and...