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

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Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science

Countries:   Canada - Great Britain - Mexico

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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 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 10: Halifax.

• 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).

Births

• 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 17,1749 - 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 25 - Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (died 1817)
• 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)

See also Category: 1749 births.

Deaths

• February 8 - Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (born 1682)
• 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)
• date unknown - Maria Oriana Galli-Bibiena, Italian painter (born 1656)

See also Category: 1749 deaths.