What Happened In History Year 1749

Historical Events for the Year 1749

• 3rd January » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
• 21st January » The Teatro Filarmonico (Verona) known as Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
• 19th May » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
• 21st June » City of Halifax or Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

Famous Birthdays in 1749

• 13th January » Maler Müller, German poet, painter, and playwright (d. 1825)
• 16th January » Vittorio Alfieri, Italian playwright (d. 1803)
• 29th January » Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
• 9th March » Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and politician (d. 1791)
• 10th March » Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian poet and librettist of Mozart operas (d. 1838)
• 19th March » Princess Louisa of Great Britain (d. 1768)
• 23rd March » Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
• 26th March » William Blount, American politician (d. 1800)
• 5th May » Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French composer (d. 1794)
• 15th May » Levi Lincoln, Sr., American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Attorney General (d. 1820)
• 17th May » Edward Jenner, English physician and microbiologist (d. 1823)
• 25th May » Gregorio Funes, Argentinian clergyman and academic (d. 1829)
• 15th June » Georg Joseph Vogler, German organist, composer, and theorist (d. 1814)
• 16th July » Cyrus Griffin, American politician, 16th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1810)
• 5th August » Thomas Lynch, Jr., American politician (d. 1779)
• 28th August » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German author, poet, playwright, and diplomat (d. 1832)
• 8th September » Yolande de Polastron, French educator (d. 1793)
• 8th September » Princess Marie Louise of Savoy (d. 1792)
• 19th September » Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1822)
• 22nd October » Cornelis van der Aa, Dutch bookseller (d. 1816)
• 3rd November » Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
• 17th November » Nicolas Appert, French chef, inventor of canning (d. 1841)
• 23rd November » Edward Rutledge, American captain and politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1800)
• 17th December » Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer and educator (d. 1801)

Famous Deaths in History for 1749

• 8th February » Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682)
• 23rd May » Abraham ben Abraham, Polish martyr (b. 1700)
• 16th June » Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian businessman (b. 1672)
• 18th June » Ambrose Philips, English poet and politician (b. 1674)
• 3rd July » William Jones (mathematician) known as William Jones, Welsh-English mathematician (b. 1675)
• 12th July » Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, French navy officer and politician, Governor General of New France (b. 1671)
• 13th August » Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet and critic (b. 1719)
• 29th August » Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684)
• 10th September » Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
• 14th September » Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1675)
• 4th October » Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian commander (b. 1711)
• 14th November » Maruyama Gondazaemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 3rd Makuuchi Yokozuna known as Yokozuna (b. 1713)
• 5th December » Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, Canadian commander and explorer (b. 1685)
• 19th December » Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)

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