Editing 1759 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]] &ndash; [[Battle of Bergen (1759)|Battle of Bergen]]: A French army defeats [[Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick]] in Hesse. 
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Josiah Wedgwood]] founds the [[Wedgwood]] pottery in England.
* [[May 10]] &ndash; The [[Macedonian Hussar Regiment]] is formed and starts to assist the Russian Empire in the [[Seven Years' War]].
* [[June 4]] &ndash; After arriving at Canada, the Royal Navy fleet sails out of British-controlled [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] toward the [[St. Lawrence River]] to prepare the invasion of French Quebec.<ref>Richard Middleton and Anne Lombard, ''Colonial America: A History to 1763'' (John Wiley & Sons, 2011)</ref>
* [[June 15]] &ndash; The first [[vascular surgery]] in history is performed by a Dr. Hallowell (whose first name has been lost) at [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] in England, who uses suture repair rather than a tying off with a [[Ligature (medicine)|ligature]] to repair an aneurysm on a patient's [[brachial artery]]. The case is reported in [[1761]] by Dr. Richard Lambert in the paper "A new technique of treating an aneurysm", published in the journal ''Medical Observations and Inquiries''.<ref>"History of Microsurery", by Yoshikazu Ikuta, in ''Telemicrosurgery: Robot Assisted Microsurgery'' (Springer, 2012) p5</ref> The new procedure of reconstructing a damaged artery replaces the practice of ligation that had risked the amputation of a limb or organ failure.<ref>Steven G. Friedman, MD, ''A History of Vascular Surgery'' (John Wiley & Sons, 2008) p ix</ref> 
* [[June 26]] &ndash; After their fleet finishes navigation of the St. Lawrence and arriving at the [[Île d'Orléans]], British troops go ashore on France's North American territory and begin the siege of [[Quebec City]].<ref name=Quebec/>