1749

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Centuries:	17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades:	1710s  1720s  1730s  - 1740s -  1750s  1760s  1770s
Years:	1746 1747 1748 - 1749 - 1750 1751 1752

1749 in topic:

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Year 1749 (MDCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1749 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown dates

Events of 1749

January - June

• January 3 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
• April 27 - The first official performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks finished early due to the outbreak of fire.
• May 19 - King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.

July - December

• July 9 - Naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded as British answer to Louisbourg.

• September 15 - According to mathematical calculations, Pluto moved outside Neptune's orbit to remain the outermost planet until 1979.

Undated

• While in debtor's prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). Released from prison, the book was published in London. Immediately, the Church of England asked the British Secretary of State to "stop the progress of this vile Book, which is an open insult upon Religion and good manners." As a result, Cleland was arrested and charged with "corrupting the King's subjects."

Births

1749 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1749 MDCCXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2502
Armenian calendar	1198 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-95 – -94
Buddhist calendar	2293
Chinese calendar	4385/4445-11-13 (戊辰年十一月十三日) — to — 4386/4446-11-22 (己巳年十一月廿二日)
Ethiopian calendar	1741 – 1742
Hebrew calendar	5509 – 5510
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1804 – 1805
- Shaka Samvat	1671 – 1672
- Kali Yuga	4850 – 4851
Holocene calendar	11749
Iranian calendar	1127 – 1128
Islamic calendar	1162 – 1163
Japanese calendar	Kan'en 2 (寛延2年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2409 (皇紀2409年)
- Jōmon Era	11749
Julian calendar	1794
Korean calendar	4082
Thai solar calendar	2292
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• January 13 - Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist (died 1825)
• January 17 - Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist (died 1803)
• January 24 - Charles James Fox, English politician (died 1806)
• January 29 - King Christian VII of Denmark (died 1808)
• March 9 - Honore Mirabeau, French politician (died 1791)
• March 10 - Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian librettist (died 1838)
• March 23 - Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1827)
• May 17 - Edward Jenner, English physician (died 1823)
• April 11 - Adelaide Labille-Guiard, French portrait painter (died 1803)
• June 15 - Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer (died 1814)

• August 28 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (died 1832)
• September 30 - Comte Siméon Joseph Jérôme, French jurist and politician (died 1842)
• November 23 - Edward Rutledge, American statesman (died 1800)
• December 17 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (died 1801)

Unknown dates

• Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (died 1817)

See also Category: 1749 births.

Deaths

• February 8 - Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (born 1682)
• May 24 - Graf Valentin Potocki, Polish nobleman
• June 18 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (born 1675)

• July 3 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (born 1675)
• July 12 - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France born c.1671)
• August 13 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (born 1719)
• September 10 - Emilie du Chatelet, French mathematician and physicist (born 1706)
• September 14 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (born 1675)
• October 4 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (born 1711)
• December 5 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, French-Canadian explorer and trader (born 1685)
• December 19 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (born 1672)

Unknown dates

• Maria Oriana Galli-Bibiena, Italian painter (born 1656)

See also Category: 1749 deaths.af:1749

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