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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

July - December

  • July 9 - Naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded as British answer to Louisbourg.
  • September 15 - According to mathematical calculations, Pluto moved 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 (died 1825)
  • January 17 - Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist (died 1803)
  • January 24 - Charles James Fox, English politician (died 1806)
  • January 29 - King Christian VII of Denmark (died 1808)
  • March 9 - Honore Mirabeau, French politician (died 1791)
  • March 10 - Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian librettist (died 1838)
  • March 23 - Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1827)
  • May 17,1749 - Edward Jenner, English physician (died 1823)
  • April 11 - Adelaide Labille-Guiard, French portrait painter (died 1803)
  • June 15 - Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer (died 1814)
  • August 28 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (died 1832)
  • September 25 - Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (died 1817)
  • September 30 - Comte Siméon Joseph Jérôme, French jurist and politician (died 1842)
  • November 23 - Edward Rutledge, American statesman (died 1800)
  • December 17 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (died 1801) » See also .

    Deaths

  • February 8 - Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (born 1682)
  • June 18 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (born 1675)
  • July 3 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (born 1675)
  • July 12 - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France born c.1671)
  • August 13 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (born 1719)
  • September 10 - Emilie du Chatelet, French mathematician and physicist (born 1706)
  • September 14 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (born 1675)
  • October 4 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (born 1711)
  • December 5 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, French-Canadian explorer and trader (born 1685)
  • December 19 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (born 1672)
  • date unknown - Maria Oriana Galli-Bibiena, Italian painter (born 1656) » See also .

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