Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1749. 1749 (MDCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

The 1740s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1749 BC to December 31, 1740 BC. 1749 BC–Samsu-iluna succeeds Hammurabi as king of Babylon. However...

Acadia, French colonists offered payments to Indians for British scalps. In 1749, British governor Edward Cornwallis created an extirpation proclamation,...

(pronounced "seventeen-forties") decade ran from January 1, 1740, to December 31, 1749. Many events during this decade sparked an impetus for the Age of Reason...

Events from the year 1749 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George II Governor General of New France: Roland-Michel Barrin...

history, the university changed its officially recognized founding date to 1749, which was used for all of the nineteenth century, including a centennial...

Hospital in London at which the Foundling Hospital Anthem is premiered. 1749–1750 – Bach revises his The Art of Fugue BWV 1080, but the project will be...

Colonel Nicholas Bayly (1747 – 7 June 1812) was a British soldier and Member of Parliament. Bayly was the third son of Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet...

Gazette. 20 June 1749. p. 2. "No. 8898". The London Gazette. 31 October 1749. p. 3. "No. 8902". The London Gazette. 17 November 1749. p. 3. "No. 8963"...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1749. February – The second part of John Cleland's erotic novel Fanny Hill (Memoirs...

Hylton. It was sold by a private Act of Parliament (23 Geo. 2. c. 21) in 1749. The new owner was to be a Mr. Wogan who returned from the East Indies to...

to be the Royal yacht and resumed her classification as a Sixth Rate. In 1749 a new Royal Caroline was built to replace her. She reverted to being a naval...

The Battle of Ambur (3 August 1749) was the first major battle of the Second Carnatic War. The battle was initiated by Muzaffar Jung and supported by Joseph...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential...

Philip Livingston (July 9, 1686 – February 11, 1749) was an American merchant, slave trader and politician in colonial New York. The son of Robert Livingston...

inherited the Smithson Baronetcy in 1733. He changed his surname to Percy in 1749, nine years after his marriage with Lady Elizabeth Seymour (1716–1776), daughter...

Events from the year 1749 in Ireland. Monarch: George II 3 June – radical apothecary Charles Lucas begins publication of The Censor, or Citizens' Journal...

formal excavations by Spanish military engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre. 1749: Stabiae rediscovered by Joaquin de Alcubierre. 1740: Nicholas Mahudel's...

Thomas Claiborne (February 1, 1749 – 1812) was a planter and politician from Brunswick County, Virginia, who represented Virginia in the United States...

Edward Cornwallis arrived to establish Halifax with 13 transports on 21 June 1749. The British quickly began to build other settlements. To guard against Miꞌkmaq...

Françoise Marie de Bourbon (Légitimée de France; 4 May 1677 – 1 February 1749) was the youngest illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his...

other universities, as Franklin first convened the board of trustees in 1749, arguably making it the fifth oldest institution of higher education in the...

The Manipur – Burmese wars of 1717–1749 were a series of conflicts between Manipur under Gharib Niwaz and the Toungo kingdom of Burma. The conflict between...

John Watts Jr. (August 27, 1749 – September 3, 1836) was an American lawyer and politician from New York City who represented New York in the U.S. House...

complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1745–1749. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England...

for the Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and the Würzburg Residence (1749–51). Façade of the Church of the Gesù Rome (consecrated 1584) Interior view...

The year 1749 in science and technology involved some significant events. Pierre Bouguer publishes La figure de la terre in Paris, describing some of the...

18 June 1749 – July 1751, and 31 January 1753 – September 1772. He succeeded on the death of his father, Maharaja Abhai Singh, on 18 June 1749. However...

establishment of the Town of Halifax, named after the 2nd Earl of Halifax, in 1749 led to the colonial capital being transferred from Annapolis Royal. The establishment...

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