1749
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This article is about the year 1749.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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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 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1749 MDCCXLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2502 |
| Armenian calendar | 1198 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6499 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -95–-94 |
| Bengali calendar | 1156 |
| Berber calendar | 2699 |
| British Regnal year | 22 Geo. 2 – 23 Geo. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2293 |
| Burmese calendar | 1111 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7257–7258 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊辰年十一月十三日 (4385/4445-11-13) — to —
己巳年十一月廿二日(4386/4446-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 1465–1466 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1741–1742 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5509–5510 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1805–1806 |
| - 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) |
| Korean calendar | 4082 |
| Minguo calendar | 163 before ROC 民前163年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2292 |
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Year 1749 (MDCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] 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.
[edit] July–December
- July 9 – The naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded as the British answer to Louisbourg.
[edit] Date unknown
- While in debtor's prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure).
[edit] 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 17 – Nicolas Appert French inventor (d. 1841)
- November 23 – Edward Rutledge, American statesman (d. 1800)
- December 17 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (d. 1801)
- December 25 – Samuel Jackson Pratt, known as 'Courtney Melmoth' British writer, poet and actor (d. 1814)
- Date unknown – Charlotte Melmoth, British & American Actress (d. 1823)
[edit] 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)
- November 19 – Carl Heinrich Biber, German violinist and composer (b. 1681)
- 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)
