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What Happened In Year 1749?

• January 3, 1749 – Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
• January 21, 1749 – The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
• April 27, 1749 – First performance of Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.
• May 19, 1749 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
• June 21, 1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

Who Were Born In The Year 1749?

• January 13, 1749 – Friedrich Müller, painter and dramatist (d. 1825)
• January 16, 1749 – Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist (d. 1803)
• January 29, 1749 – King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
• March 9, 1749 – Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
• March 10, 1749 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838)
• March 26, 1749 – William Blount, American statesman (d. 1800)
• May 15, 1749 – Levi Lincoln, Sr., American statesman (d. 1820)
• May 17, 1749 – Edward Jenner, English medical researcher (d. 1823)
• May 25, 1749 – Gregorio Funes, Argentine clergyman, politician and Junta Grande figure (d. 1829)
• July 16, 1749 – Cyrus Griffin, American statesman, 16th and last president of the Continental Congress (d. 1810)
• August 5, 1749 – Thomas Lynch, Jr., American congressman (d. 1779)
• August 28, 1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
• September 8, 1749 – Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (d. 1793)
• September 19, 1749 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (d. 1822)
• October 22, 1749 – Cornelis van der Aa, Dutch convicted bookseller(d. 1816)
• November 3, 1749 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
• November 17, 1749 – Nicolas Appert, French inventor (d. 1841)
• November 23, 1749 – Edward Rutledge, American statesman (d. 1800)
• December 17, 1749 – Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (d. 1801)

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