1749

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
Countries:
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

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).

1 Events of 1749
2 Births
3 Deaths

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

July 10: Halifax.

July 9 – The naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded as the British answer to Louisbourg.

Undated

While in debtor's prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure).

Births

**1749 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1749 MDCCXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2502
Armenian calendar	1198 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԸ
Bahá'í calendar	-95 – -94
Bengali calendar	1156
Berber calendar	2699
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
- Bikram Samwat	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
Thai solar calendar	2292

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)

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)