Calendar of Literary Facts
1759
- Voltaire publishes Candide; ou, L’optimisme, traduit de l’Allemand, de Mr. le Docteur Ralph (Candide; or, All for the Best)
- British forces commanded by General James Wolfe capture Quebec from the French; Wolfe is killed in the successful assault
- Oliver Goldsmith founds The Bee in London
- Friedrich Schiller is born (November 10)
- William Collins dies (June 12)
- Robert Burns is born (January 25)
- Mary Wollstonecraft is born (April 27)
