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1759 in Canada

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Events from the year 1759 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • French Monarch: Louis XV
  • British and Irish Monarch: George II

Governors

  • Governor General of New France: Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal
  • Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Louis Billouart
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: Charles Lawrence
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Edwards

Events

  • Tuesday May 22 - A British fleet approaches Quebec.
  • Thursday June 28 - French fire ships, intended to burn the British fleet, at Quebec, are taken ashore by British sailors.
  • Thursday July 26 - Carillon (Fort Ticonderoga) is abandoned by the French.
  • Saturday July 28 - Another French fireship attack fails against the British.
  • Tuesday July 31 - British forces attempt to take French fortifications at Montmorency and fail bitterly.
  • August 8 to August 9 - British guns, on Pointe Lévis, fire the lower town of Quebec.
  • Thursday September 13 - James Wolfe lands a force at Fuller's Cove, between 1 and 2 in the morning. They climb to the Plains of Abraham. At 6 a.m., Marquis de Montcalm is informed that the British have accomplished what he deemed impossible; but discredits the report. With 4,500, he fights about an equal number; but his men cannot resist bayonets. Each leader receives a mortal wound. Wolfe asks an officer to support him so that his followers may not be discouraged by his fall.
  • Friday September 14 - Montcalm dies in the Château St-Louis.
  • Monday September 17 - Capitulation of Quebec.
  • Tuesday September 18 - The British take possession of Quebec.
  • Proclamation issued by Governor of Nova Scotia invites New Englanders to settle there.

Deaths

  • September 13 - James Wolfe, British Army officer (born 1727)
  • September 14 - Marquis de Montcalm, French Military Commander (Born 1712)

References

References

  1. Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
  2. (30 December 2015). "George I".
  3. (August 1997). "An Inscribed Native American Battle Image From The Little Bighorn Battlefield". Plains Anthropologist.
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