* 1672 – André Cardinal Destouches, French composer ( d. 1749 )

* 1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist ( d. 1832 )

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.

* Dominique Joseph Garat ( 1749 – 1833 ), writer and politician

It was Pierre-Simon Laplace ( 1749 – 1827 ) who introduced a general version of the theorem and used it to approach problems in celestial mechanics, medical statistics, reliability, and jurisprudence.

Three of five siblings survived to adulthood, Denise Diderot ( 1715 – 1797 ) and their youngest brother Pierre-Didier Diderot ( 1722 – 1787 ), and finally their sister Angélique Diderot ( 1720 – 1749 ).

Edward Anthony Jenner, FRS ( 17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823 ) was an English physician and scientist from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine.

A bio-bibliography of Edward Jenner, 1749 – 1823.

Rabbi Chaim Volozhin ( Lithuania 1749 – 1821 ) reports in an introduction to Siphra Dzeniouta ( 1818 ) that he once presented to his teacher, the Vilna Gaon, ten different versions of a certain passage in the Sefer Yetzira and asked the Gaon to determine the correct text.

* 1749 – 1754 – Liutenant General Humphrey Bland is the Governor of Gibraltar.

Hans Egede's Hope Colony was organized under the auspices of the Bergen Greenland Company prior to its bankruptcy in 1727 ; it was succeeded by the merchant Jacob Severin ( 1733 – 1749 ), the General Trade Company ( Det almindelige Handelskompagni ; 1749 – 1774 ), and finally the Royal Greenland Trading Department ( KGH ; 1776 – 1908 ).

* Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827, Paris ( France )

The movement, from 1772 until 1805, involved Herder as well as polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ) and Friedrich Schiller ( 1759 – 1805 ), a poet and historian.

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.

File: Goethe ( Stieler 1828 ). jpg | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 )

First published on 28 February 1749, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel.

* First United States printing of John Cleland's 1749 novel, Fanny Hill ( Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure ).

First of the New Hampshire grants, Bennington was chartered on January 3, 1749 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth and named in his honor.

First Epistle to the Corinthians | 1 Corinthians, from the Douai Bible, 1749

First published on 3 January 1749, it is the oldest Danish newspaper still published and among the oldest newspapers in the world.

First settled in August 1749 by Captain John Gorham, acting on orders from Governor Edward Cornwallis to establish a military fort named Fort Sackville, Lower Sackville is now one of the fastest growing communities in Nova Scotia, and contains a mix of residential and commercial development in the Sackville River valley, immediately north of the former town of Bedford.

* August 1748 – October 1749 Repeat ( possible concert hall ) performance by Bach of Handel's Brockes Passion HWV 48 in a version by Bach.

He received several grants from Canada, Italy and France for his innovative work as composer-performer of period music and as founding-director of the Festivals: Rendez-vous con Hendrik Bouman ( Italy ) 1992, Halifax 1749 Baroque ( Canada ) 1999, Baroque by the Sea ( Maritimes Canada ) 1999 & 2005, the Baroque SaMuse Concert Series ( Montréal, Canada ) 2006-2007, as well as a sponsorship from Berkeley Homes, United Kingdom for his Baroque by the Sea Concert Series ( Sussex, United Kingdom ) 2009 ; concert series predominantly dedicated to the performance of his baroque and classical compositions, period improvisations, as well as historical repertoire and his transcriptions thereof.

The 1749 revival at Covent Garden, under the proper title of Messiah, saw the appearance of two female soloists who would henceforth be closely associated with Handel's music: Giulia Frasi and Caterina Galli.

Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks was composed specifically for a fireworks celebration held in Green Park in 1749.

Handel's Fireworks Music, performed at his GRACE the Duke of RICHMOND ' S at WHITEHALL and on the River Thames on Monday 15 May 1749.

In 1749 a rehearsal of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks attracted an audience of 12, 000, and in 1786 a fancy dress jubilee to celebrate the proprietor's long ownership was thronged with 61, 000 revellers.

Music for the Royal Fireworks was composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 to celebrate the peace Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which had been declared the previous year.

The Music for the Royal Fireworks ( HWV 351 ) is a wind band suite composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain for the fireworks in London's Green Park on 27 April 1749.

Thanks to Lawrence's connection to the powerful Fairfax family, at age 17 in 1749, Washington was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, a well-paid position which enabled him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley, the first of his many land acquisitions in western Virginia.

In 1749, Rousseau was paying daily visits to Diderot, who had been thrown into the fortress of Vincennes under a lettre de cachet for opinions in his " Lettre sur les aveugles ," that hinted at materialism, a belief in atoms, and natural selection.

An equivalent relationship had been conjectured by Euler over a hundred years earlier, in 1749, for the Dirichlet eta function ( alternating zeta function )

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 ).

) In 1749 Richard Dunthorne confirmed Halley's suspicion after re-examining ancient records, and produced the first quantitative estimate for the size of this apparent effect: a centurial rate of + 10 " ( arcseconds ) in lunar longitude ( a surprisingly good result for its time, not far different from values assessed later, e. g. in 1786 by de Lalande, and to compare with values from about 10 " to nearly 13 " being derived about a century later.

* Justus Henning Boehmer ( 1674 – 1749 ), German ecclesiastical jurist, one of the first reformers of the church law and the civil law which was basis for further reforms and maintained until the 20th century.

In the fall of 1749, eager to create a school to educate future generations, Benjamin Franklin circulated a pamphlet titled " Proposals for the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania ," his vision for what he called a " Public Academy of Philadelphia.

Sometime later in its early history, Penn began to consider 1749 as its founding date ; this year was referenced for over a century, including at the centennial celebration in 1849.

A few professional degrees for various purposes were introduced in 1749 – 1750, but the radical suggestion of binding students to a single program of study adapted to a particular profession was never implemented.

The flight route designation for the flight between JFK and Santo Domingo is now Flight 1749 using a Boeing 767-300 or the Boeing 757-200.

In 1749 the British government gave land to the Ohio Company of Virginia for the purpose of developing trade and settlements in the Ohio Country.

Casorti's son, Giuseppe ( 1749 – 1826 ), had undoubtedly been impressed by the Pierrots they had seen while touring France in the late 18th century, for he assumed the role and began appearing as Pierrot in his own pantomimes, which now had a formulaic structure ( Cassander, father of Columbine, and Pierrot, his dim-witted servant, undertake a mad pursuit of Columbine and her rogue lover, Harlequin ).

In 1749, Louis ' descendant, King Louis XV, had the French Blue set into a more elaborate jewelled pendant for the Order of the Golden Fleece by court jeweler Andre Jacquemin.

), she obtained from the king the appointment of ministers ( Bernis, secretary of state for foreign affairs, in 1757 ), as well as their dismissal ( Orry, controller-general of finances, in 1745 ; Maurepas, secretary of state for the Navy, in 1749 ).

In 1749 Euler proved this formula for any real n using Euler's formula, which makes the proof quite straightforward.

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.

The earliest known orchestral part specifically for the instrument is in the Vienna version of Niccolò Jommelli's opera Ezio dating from 1749, where it was given the Italian name corno inglese.

York County was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster County and named either for the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and shire of York in England.