* 1675 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician ( d. 1749 )

In the English-speaking world, the Douay-Rheims Bible — translated from the Latin Vulgate by expatriate recusants in Rheims, France in 1582 ( New Testament ) and in Douai, France in 1609 ( Old Testament )— which was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749 – 1752 ( the 1750 revision is that which is printed today ), was, until the prompting for " new translations from the original languages " given by Pope Pius XII in the 1942 encyclical letter Divino afflante spiritu and the Second Vatican Council, the translation used by most Catholics ( after Divino afflante spiritu, translations multiplied in the Catholic world, just as they multiplied in the Protestant world around the same time beginning with the Revised Standard Version, with various other translations being used around the world for English-language liturgies, ranging from the New American Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and the upcoming English Standard Version Catholic lectionary ).

* October 24 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician ( d. 1749 )

In 1749 ownership of the estate passed to Grenville's brother Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple | Richard.

Hester was the sister of Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, whose title she inherited under a special remainder in 1749 ; in the same year ( or maybe in 1751 ), her husband being long dead, she was created 1st Countess Temple.

* 1749 / 50 Benjamin Mather Richard Butler

* Captain Richard Haddock, 1734 – 1749

Harriot married firstly in 1726 Richard Eliot, having nine children including Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot and secondly in 1749 to John Hamilton by whom she had a son.

Much of the text of the 1582 / 1610 bible, however, employed a densely latinate vocabulary, to the extent of being in places unreadable ; and consequently this translation was replaced by a revision undertaken by bishop Richard Challoner ; the New Testament in three editions 1749, 1750, and 1752 ; the Old Testament ( minus the Vulgate apocrypha ), in 1750.

The Douay – Rheims Bible, however, achieved little currency, even among English-speaking Catholics, until it was substantially revised between 1749 and 1752 by Richard Challoner, an English bishop, formally appointed to the deserted see of Debra.

* Sir Richard Temple, 4th Baronet ( 1669 – 1749 ) ( created Viscount Cobham in 1718 ; see below )

* Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham ( 1669 – 1749 )

In 1749 he was also created Baron Herbert of Chirbury and Ludlow, with remainder firstly his brother Richard Herbert and secondly to his kinsman Francis Herbert, of Ludlow.

Matthew and his wife Anna Lloyd Tilghman ( 1723 – 1794 ) had five children: Margaret ( 1742 – 1817 ), Matthew Ward ( 1743 – 1753 ), Richard ( 1747 – 1806 ), Lloyd ( 1749 – 1811 ), and Anna Maria ( 1755 – 1843 ).

Richard and Elizabeth's third son, Thomas Dawson, also sat as Member of Parliament for County Monaghan from 1749 to 1768.

* 1749 Richard Coleman executed " for a murder he did not committ " on 12th April.

* Richard Dore ( 1749 – 1800 ), English lawyer and judge

Tanacharison was " one of the sachems who had confirmed Croghan in his land grant of 1749 " ( Wainwright, 49 ), 200, 000 acres minus about two square miles at the Forks of the Ohio for a British Fort.

German artists and intellectuals, heavily influenced by the French Revolution and by the great German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ), turned to Romanticism after a period of Enlightenment.

Less noted is his published call in 1749 for the roofing-over of Perrault's classical colonnaded east front of the Palais du Louvre and the clearing away of the ramshackle structures, both those that had been built against it, in order to form a proper Place du Louvre, and those in the centre of the Cour Carré itself Sections of the palace were in danger of collapse, scarcely touched by royal indifference after 1678 ; work did begin in 1755 to clear the facade of the Louvre, overseen by the architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot and Marigny, supervisor of the Bâtiments du Roi.

Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr, the English word dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749.

After Brenton's death in 1749, the land was granted to another group of settlers and named Litchfield after George Henry Lee, Earl of Litchfield.

The town would be incorporated in 1749 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, who renamed it after Hampstead, England, the residence of William Pitt, a close friend.

Plaistow was officially established as a town in 1749 after a boundary dispute between the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the New Hampshire Grants.

Granted by the Masonian Proprietors in 1749, the town was named after Sir Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, who was in charge of convoy service between Barbados and the colonies.

Shannopin's Town, a Seneca tribe village on the east bank of the Allegheny, was the home village of Queen Aliquippa, but was deserted after 1749.

The article on Zedler published in 1749 in the 61st volume of the Universal Lexicon remarks that Zedler had decided on forms of employment he preferred to the trade after the acquisition of the publishing business by Wolf.

His principal work Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations was published in 1749, three years after Condillac's Essai sur l ' origine des connaissances humaines, in which similar theories were expounded.

The Laplace operator is named after the French mathematician Pierre-Simon de Laplace ( 1749 – 1827 ), who first applied the operator to the study of celestial mechanics, where the operator gives a constant multiple of the mass density when it is applied to a given gravitational potential.

It was named after the Marquis de La Jonquière, governor of New France from 1749 to 1752.

Jerusalem was maestro de capilla at the cathedral in Mexico City after Sumaya, from 1749 until his death in 1769.

This story is false: the bridge was built of oak in 1749 by James Essex the Younger ( 1722 – 1784 ) to the design of the master carpenter William Etheridge ( 1709 – 1776 ), 22 years after Newton died.

The municipality separated from Hundwil in 1749 and was named after the Uf Stein section of the neighbouring river.

Named after Edward Shepherd, tenant at the wheel from 1749 to 1794, when 10 men were employed here.

Shahuji died in 1749 bequething power to peshwa with condition that the dignity of house of shivaji will be maintained and also welfare of subjects will be looked after.

President of the Board of Trade 1748-61, he aided the foundation of Nova Scotia, 1749, the capital Halifax being named after him.

His collections reached home in safety, and five years after his death his notes were published by Linnaeus under the title Iter Palæstinum, Eller Resa til Heliga Landet, Förrättad Ifrån år 1749 til 1752, which was translated into French and German in 1762 and into English in 1766 ( as Voyages and Travels in the Levant, in the Years 1749, 50, 51, 52 ).

Lunéville faience, a kind of unglazed faience produced from 1723 at Lunéville by Jacques Chambrette, became the Manufacture Royale du Roi de Pologne (“ Royal Factory of the King of Poland ”) after Stanislas sponsored it in 1749.

The nineteenth-century development is named after " Strawberry Hill ", the fanciful Gothic Revival villa designed by author Horace Walpole between 1749 and 1776.

In 1749, thirteen years after Pergolesi's death, his La serva padrona swept Italy and France, evoking the praise of such French Enlightenment luminaries as Rousseau.

The spelling and names in both the 1609 – 1610 Douay Old Testament ( and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament ) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner ( the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English ) and in the Septuagint ( an ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, which is widely used by the Eastern Orthodox instead of the Masoretic text ) differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.