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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

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 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)

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8 people were born in 1749

1 children were born to the 1 women born in 1749

4 people died in 1749

424 people lived in 1749

Events of the year 1749 at Familypedia

11 people were married in 1749.

There were 0 military battles in 1749.