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.

In 1749, Pope Benedict XIV endorsed as official Church policy the view that the Colosseum was a sacred site where early Christians had been martyred.

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.

After New Hampshire became a separate colony, the town was re-granted by the Masonian proprietors in 1749 with the name Stevenstown, and settled as early as 1750.

The Spanish probably knew of the settlement as early as 1749, and according to some accounts José de Escandón wanted to establish a pueblo and presidio there.

Charles James Fox PC ( 24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806 ), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was particularly noted for being the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.

Madras was returned to the British as part of the peace agreement in early 1749.

John James ( Johann Jacob ) Heidegger ( 19 June 1666-5 September 1749 ) was a Swiss count and leading impresario of masquerades in the early part of the 18th century.

Abraham Gottlob Werner ( 25 September 1749 – 30 June 1817 ), was a German geologist who set out an early theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust and coined the word Neptunism.

Jared Ingersoll ( October 24, 1749 – October 31, 1822 ) was an early American lawyer and statesman from Philadelphia.

By early 1749 Bertram had provided Stukeley with his copy of the manuscript and map, which were kept in the Arundel Library of the Royal Society.

Recipes similar to that of the Sachertorte appeared as early as the eighteenth century, one instance being in the 1718 cookbook of Conrad Hagger, another individual represented in Gartler-Hickmann's 1749 Tried and True Viennese Cookbook ( Wienerisches bewährtes Kochbuch ).

Grose had early shown a keen interest in drawing, having attempted sketches of medieval buildings as far back as 1749, and having taken formal instruction at a drawing school in the mid-1750s.

He received ordination at Copenhagen on 8 August 1749, and, after spending some time in England to acquire the English language, embarked early in 1750 for India.

Ritual blowing occurs in the liturgies of catechumenate and baptism from a very early period and survives into the modern Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Maronite, and Coptic rites .< ref > Alongside Martène and Suntrup ( cited above ), convenient collections of illustrative material include W. G. Henderson, ed., < cite > Manuale et Processionale ad usum insignis Ecclesiae Eboracensis ,</ cite > Surtees Society Publications 63 ( Durham, 1875 for 1874 ), especially Appendix III " Ordines Baptismi " below as < cite > York Manual </ cite >; Joseph Aloysius Assemanus, < cite > Codex liturgicus ecclesiae universae, I: De Catechumenis </ cite > and < cite > II: De Baptismo </ cite > ( Rome, 1749 ; reprinted Paris and Leipzig, 1902 ); J. M. Neale, ed., < cite > The Ancient Liturgies of the Gallican Church ... together with Parallel Passages from the Roman, Ambrosian, and Mozarabic Rites </ cite > ( London, 1855 ; rpt.

In Halifax, St. Matthew's dates back to 1749 as a " Dissenting Protestant Worship House ", and adhered to Presbyterian polity at a later date ; the Presbyterian Church of St. David is another 1925 " Minority Group " from within downtown Halifax congregations including St Matthew's, and celebrated its 80th Anniversary in 2005, meeting in the former Grafton Street Methodist ( 1869 ) building, acquired in their early days.

A concept of celestial marriage was described by Emanuel Swedenborg as early as 1749.

Thomas Ingersoll ( 1749 – 1812 ) was an early settler in Upper Canada, later Ontario.

The earliest records of the Catholic Church in Vincennes date to 1749, but French Jesuit missionaries had been in the area as early as the 1730s ..

George Beck ( 1749 – December 24, 1812 ) was an artist and poet who flourished in America during the early republic era.

He finished with 1749 runs at an average of 49, but after more brilliant batting early in 1934 his health broke down and he played just ten games, although recording a batting average of 91. 33.

* William Whitley ( 1749 – 1813 ), early American pioneer

Some notable persons either born in or who resided in Columbia County include: Oliver Hardy ( comedian, born in Harlem ), Paul Hamilton Hayne ( poet and author ), Henry Louis Benning ( Confederate general for whom Fort Benning is named ), William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, George W. Crawford, William H. Crawford ( presidential candidate in 1824 ), Thomas Watson ( populist leader and Georgia senator born in Thomson when it was still in Columbia County ), George McDuffie ( South Carolina governor and senator in the early 19th century ), Jesse Mercer ( a long-time preacher in the county for whom Mercer University is named ).

It was regranted to 62 proprietors on July 2, 1753 by Governor Benning Wentworth as Swanzey, most probably because some early settlers had a connection to Swansea in Wales.

Chartered in 1761 by Governor Benning Wentworth, the town was named after the hometown of many early settlers, Canaan, Connecticut, which had been named for the biblical land of Canaan.

Residents began petitioning for separation from Hampton as early as 1719, but township was not granted until 1742 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, following separation of New Hampshire from Massachusetts.

Grants in the area were given by both the early Massachusetts government and by Governor Benning Wentworth, which led to disputes.

Giraud at Fort Benning, early 1943.

Hinzman voluntarily joined the military early in 2001, completing basic combat training and airborne school in Fort Benning, Georgia.

The Fischer-Price PXL-2000 camera used in her early works that brought her to the spotlight was a Christmas gift from her father, experimental filmmaker James Benning.

By early 1942, he had become successively a Squad Leader, Platoon Sergeant and Acting First Sergeant before being sent to Infantry Officer Candidate School ( OCS ), where he graduated as an 18-year old Second Lieutenant at the head of his class and was selected to remain at The Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, as an instructor.

Born in Pangasinan to Ilocos Sur natives, he came to the United States in the early 1950s when his father, Major Fred Soriano, USA, was assigned to Ft. Benning, Georgia.

* Henry Wentworth Monk ( 1827 – 1896 ), millenarian prophet and early Zionist

In the early 1950s, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were childhood friends and classmates at Wentworth Primary School in Dartford, Kent until their families moved apart.

Laud and Wentworth shared, with King Charles I, the same fate as many others who at some time in his life, found reasons to conspire against Boyle: an early demise, with Boyle showing his customary astuteness by putting on a convincing show of politically appropriate response at every crucial juncture.

The Fort Hill section experienced significant gentrification when college students ( many from Northeastern University and Wentworth Institute of Technology ), artists, and young professionals moved into the area in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Immediately to the south of Wentworth Street lies the Holland Estate, a social housing estate with elements dating back to the 1920s, but which is dominated on its Commercial Street frontage by blocks of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including a 22-storey tower block, Denning Point.

The early breeders of Australian bloodstock were men of historical significance such as Robert Campbell ( 1769 – 1846 ), Lieutenant William Lawson ( explorer ), John Macarthur ( wool pioneer ), John Piper ( military officer ) and Dr D ' Arcy Wentworth.

Because of its association with Lamarckism, their ideas fell into disrepute until the early 20th century, when pioneers such as D ' Arcy Wentworth Thompson revived them.

In early 2004 he won another hotly contested battle for Wentworth, defeating Peter King, the sitting Liberal member.

He was a grandson of " Elder " William Wentworth ( born at Alford, Lincolnshire, England, in 1615 ; died in Dover, New Hampshire, March 16, 1697 ), an early settler in New England.

He is descended from early New Hampshire settler William Wentworth.

After Governor John Wentworth fled the province in August 1775, the inhabitants adopted a constitution in early 1776.

Chegwin's early roles were in works of the Children's Film Foundation, appearing as Egghead Wentworth in The Troublesome Double ( 1967 ) and Egghead's Robot ( 1970 ).

Hamilton's early work was much influenced by D ' Arcy Wentworth Thompson's 1913 text On Growth and Form.

This fear reached its high point in the late 1630s and early 1640s, when Thomas Wentworth, a minister of Charles I, was known to be planning widespread new plantations.

* D ' Arcy Wentworth ( 1762 – 1827 ), surgeon in the early days of Sydney, Australia, and father of William Charles Wentworth I

It was originally bred in England by Lady Wentworth at the Crabbet Arabian Stud in the early 1900s from imported Arabian stallions and Welsh pony mares.

Crosses began to be made between the Arabian horse and the Welsh Pony in Sussex, England the early 1900s, by Lady Wentworth of the Crabbet Arabian Stud.

Will Verge, John Verge, early Australian architect: his ledger & his clients, Sydney, Wentworth, 1962

Other points of interest and local institutions include the historic Grand View Hotel, the Wentworth Falls School of Arts, the Kedumba Gallery ( found within the grounds of the Blue Mountains Grammar School ) and Wentworth Falls Lake, an artificial lake created early in the 20th century to provide water for steam locomotives.