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 |
| 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 (Earth Dragon) 4445 or 4385 — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4446 or 4386 |
| Coptic calendar | 1465–1466 |
| Discordian calendar | 2915 |
| 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 |
| Igbo calendar | 749–750 |
| Iranian calendar | 1127–1128 |
| Islamic calendar | 1162–1163 |
| Japanese calendar | Kan'en 2 (寛延２年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4082 |
| Minguo calendar | 163 before ROC 民前163年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2291–2292 |
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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.
Events
January–June
- January 3 – Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
Music for the Royal Fireworks by George Frideric Handel.
- February – The second part of John Cleland's erotic novel Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) is published in London. The author is released from debtor's prison in March.
- February 28 – Henry Fielding's comic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is published in London.[1] Also this year, Fielding becomes magistrate at Bow Street, and first enlists the help of the Bow Street Runners, an early police force (8 men at first).[2]
- April 27 – The first official performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in London finishes early due to the outbreak of fire. The piece was composed by Handel to commemorate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle which ended the War of the Austrian Succession in 1748.[1]
- 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.
Date unknown
Portrait of Clara in Paris in 1749, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry.
Births
- January 13 – Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1825)
- January 16 – 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 – Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, French portrait painter (d. 1803)
- June 15 – Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer (d. 1814)
- June 19 – Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, French revolutionary (d. 1796)
- August 28 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician (d. 1832)
- September 25 – Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (d. 1817)
- September 30 – Comte Siméon Joseph Jérôme, French jurist and politician (d. 1842)
- October 25 – Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, Swedish ambassador (d. 1802)
- 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)
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 – Émilie du Châtelet, 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)