Editing 1759 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 19]] &ndash; The [[Great Stockholm Fire 1759]] breaks out at [[Södermalm]] in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]].
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]] ([[French and Indian War]]): In Canada, British forces capture [[Fort Niagara]] from the French, who subsequently abandon [[Fort Rouillé]]. 
* [[July 26]]&ndash;[[July 27|27]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]] ([[French and Indian War]]) &ndash; [[Battle of Ticonderoga (1759)|Battle of Ticonderoga]]: At the southern end of [[Lake Champlain]], French forces withdraw from [[Fort Carillon]], which is taken by the British under [[Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst|General Amherst]], and renamed [[Fort Ticonderoga]].
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[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 [[George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville|Lord George Sackville]], the French are able to withdraw unmolested.
* [[August 10]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand VI of Spain]] dies, and is succeeded by his half-brother [[Charles III of Spain|Charles III]]. Charles resigns the thrones of [[Kingdom of Naples|Naples]] and [[Kingdom of Sicily|Sicily]] to his third son, [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies|Ferdinand IV]].
[[File:Alexander von Kotzebue - Battle of Kunersdorf on 1 August 1759.jpg|thumb|[[August 12]]: [[Battle of Kunersdorf]].]]
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Battle of Kunersdorf]]: [[Frederick the Great]] is rebuffed in bloody assaults, by the combined Austro–Russian army of [[Pyotr Saltykov]] and [[Ernst Gideon von Laudon|Ernst von Laudon]]. This is one of Frederick's greatest defeats.
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Battle of Lagos]]: The British fleet of [[Edward Boscawen]] defeats a French force under Commodore Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran off the Portuguese coast.
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Battle of Pondicherry]]: An inconclusive naval battle is fought off the coast of India, between the [[Kingdom of France|French]] Admiral d'Aché and the [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] under [[George Pocock]]. The French forces are badly damaged and sail home, never to return.
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]] ([[French and Indian War]]) &ndash; [[Battle of the Plains of Abraham]]: [[Quebec]] falls to British forces, following [[James Wolfe|General Wolfe]]'s victory just outside the city. Both the French Commander (the [[Louis-Joseph de Montcalm|Marquis de Montcalm]]) and the British General [[James Wolfe]] are fatally wounded.<ref name=Quebec/>
* [[September 14]] &ndash; Carrington Bowles publishes ''[[A Journey Through Europe]]'', a board game designed by [[John Jefferys]], the earliest board game whose designer's name is known.