Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1749
Birthdays
- January 13 - Friedrich Müller, painter and dramatist (d. 1825)
- January 29 - King Christian VII of Denmark, (d. 1808)
- February 26 - Jeremy Bentham, English jurist (d. 1832)
- March 9 - Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
- March 10 - Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838)
- March 19 - Princess Louisa Anne of Wales, (d. 1768)
- March 23 - Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
- March 26 - William Blount, American Statesman (d. 1800)
- May 15 - Levi Lincoln, Sr.
- May 17 - Edward Jenner, English medical researcher (d. 1823)
- August 28 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
- September 8 - Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac
- September 8 - Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe
- September 19 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (d. 1822)
- November 3 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
- November 23 - Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (d. 1800)
- December 17 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (d. 1801)
Deaths
- February 8 - Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682)
- May 24 - Graf Valentin Potocki, Polish nobleman
- June 16 - Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
- June 18 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
- July 3 - William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675)
- July 12 - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
- 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
- October 4 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
- December 5 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, New French explorer and trader (b. 1685)
- December 19 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
Events
- January 3 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
- January 21 - The Verona Philharmonic Theatre was destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt in 1754.
- April 27 - First performance of Handel's Fireworks Music in Green Park, London.
- May 19 - King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
- June 21 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
- June 29 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
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