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The British Museum in the 21st Century[/caption]
In the year 1759, the first American life insurance company is incorporated in Philadelphia (Jan 11), the British Museum opens at Montagu House in London, after 6 years of development (Jan 15), a big fire breaks out at Södermalm in Stockholm, Sweden (Jul 19), a brewery is leased by Arthur Guinness in St. James’s Gate in Dublin, for the brewing of Guinness (Dec 31) - and all these fine people were born:
1759-0105 Jacques Cathelineau* Vendéan insurrectionist leader during the French Revolution/known among his followers as the Saint of Anjou - Le Pin-en-Mauges, Kingdom of France (1793/34) 1759-01 1759-0125 Robert Burns* poet/ lyricist/widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland – Alloway, Ayshire, Scotland (1796/37) 1759-0129 Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc* botanist/ invertebrate zoologist/entomologist - Paris, Kingdom of France (1828/69) 1759-0201 1759-0206 Adrien Duport* lawyer/ politician - Paris, Kingdom of France (1798/39) 1759-0210 Maria Juhontytär Latva-Luhtasela** (b Sihto) mother of Juho Mikonpoika Latva-Luhtasela - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1814/55) 1759-0211 John Pratt* nobleman/ politician - Lincoln Inn’s Fields, London, England (1840/81) 1759-0215 Friedrich August Wolf* German classicist /considered the founder of modern philology - Hainrode (1824/65) 1759-0220 Johan Christian Reil* German physician/psychiatrist/coined the term psychiatry - Rhaude (1813/54) 1759-0222 Claude Lecourbe* general during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars - Besançon, Kingdom of France (1815/56) 1759-0228 1759-0302 Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner* German-Swedish composer/to Sweden at age 22 - Öberschönau (1833/74) 1759-0322 Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp* Queen of Sweden and Norway as wife of King Charles XIII and II/diarist/memoirist - Eutin, Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck, Holy Roman Empire (1818/59) 1759-0419 August Wilhelm Iffland* actor/ dramatic author - Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (1814/55) 1759-0422 James Freeman* clergyman/writer - Charleston, Massachusetts, British America (1835/76) 1759-0427 Mary Wollstonecraft* feminist author - Spitalfields, London, England (1797/38) 1759-0507 François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison* portrait painter/poet - Paris, Kingdom of France (1834/75) 1759-0515 Maria Theresia von Paradis* Austrian musician/ composer/lost her sight young - Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (1824/64) 1759-0520 William Thornton* British-American physician/ inventor/ architect (United States Capitol) - Jost van Dyke, British Virgin Islands (1828/68) 1759-0521 Joseph Fouché* revolutionary/ statesman - Le Pellerin, Kingdom of France (1820/61) 1759-0528 William Pitt the Younger* politician/ PM/the first prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - Hayes, Kent, England (1806/46) 1759-0621 Alexander J. Dallas* statesman/financier - Kingston, Jamaica (1817/57) 1759-0625 William Plumer* lawyer/ preacher/politician - Newburyport, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America (1850/91) 1759-0702 Nathan Read* engineer/steam pioneer/politician - Warren, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America(1849/89) 1759-0731 Ignaz Anton von Indermauer* nobleman/ civil servant - Innsbruck, Tyrol (1796/37) 1759-0816 Carl Frederik von Breda* portrait painter - Stockholm, Sweden (1818/59) 1759-0824 William Wilberforce* politician/ abolitionist/philanthropist - Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (1833/73) 1759-0901 1759-0910 Lemuel Cook* one of the last verifiable surviving veterans of the American Revolutionary War - Litchfield County, Colony of Connecticut, British America (1866/106) 1759-0912 Maximilian von Montgelas* German nobleman/statesman - Munich, Electrorate of Bavaria (1838/78) 1759-0919 William Kirby* entomologist - Witnesham, Suffolk, England (1850/90) 1759-0920 1759-0930 1759-1001 1759-1010 1759-1025 Maria Feodorovna* (b Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) Empress of Russia as the second wife of Emperor Paul I - Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia (1828/69) 1759-1025 William Grenville* nobleman/politician/Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England (1834/74) 1759-1026 Georges Danton* lawyer/ revolutiionary leader - Arcis-sur-Aube, Kingdom of France (1794/34) 1759-1105 Simon Snyder* politician/ governor - Lancaster, Province of Pennsylvania, British America (1819/60) 1759-1110 Friedrich Schiller* philosopher/physician/playwright – Marbach am Neckar, Württemberg, Germany (1805/45) 1759-1123 Felipe Enrique Neri* “Baron de Bastrop”, Dutch businessman/rich land owner known in Texas/to America at age 34 - Paramaribo, Surinam (1827/67) 1759-1127 Franz Krommer* (b František Kramář) Czech vioinist/ composer - Kamenice u Jihlavy (1831/71) 1759-1201 1759-1202 James Edward Smith* botanist/founder of the Linnean Society - Norwich, England (1828/68) 1759-1203 Juho Juhonpoika Orhanen** father of Maria Juhontytär Latva-Luhtasela - Kurikka, Sweden-Finland (unknown) 1759-1210 1759-1214 Carl Erik Mannerheim* soldier/statesman/member of the Senate of Finland and great grandfather of C.G.E. Mannerheim - Säter, Sweden (1837/77) 1759-1218 Carl Johan Idestam* civil servant/senator - Sweden-Finland (1821/61) 1759-1220 1759-1231 Updated 13.7.2023-4 Search for another year here