1749

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).

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" finishes 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

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July 10: Halifax.]
* July 9 - The naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded as the British answer to Louisbourg.
* September 15 - According to mathematical calculations, Pluto moves 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)".

Births

* January 13 - Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1825)
* January 17 - Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist (d. 1803)
* January 24 - Charles James Fox, English politician (d. 1806)
* January 29 - King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
* March 9 - Honore Mirabeau, French politician (d. 1791)
* March 10 - Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838)
* March 23 - Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
* May 17 - Edward Jenner, English physician (d. 1823)
* April 11 - Adelaide Labille-Guiard, French portrait painter (d. 1803)
* June 15 - Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer (d. 1814)
* August 28 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (d. 1832)
* September 25 - Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (d. 1817)
* September 30 - Comte Siméon Joseph Jérôme, French jurist and politician (d. 1842)
* November 23 - Edward Rutledge, American statesman (d. 1800)
* December 17 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (d. 1801)

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Deaths

* February 8 - Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682)
* June 18 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1675)
* July 3 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
* July 12 - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France b. c.1671)
* August 13 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (b. 1719)
* September 10 - Emilie du Chatelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
* September 14 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (b. 1675)
* October 4 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
* December 5 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, French-Canadian explorer and trader (b. 1685)
* December 19 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
*"date unknown" - Maria Oriana Galli-Bibiena, Italian painter (b. 1656)

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