* 25pxHugh Fortescue, 14th Baron Clinton ( 1696 – 1751 ) ( abeyance terminated 1721 ; created Baron Fortescue and Earl Clinton in 1749 )

He went on to found Camargo, Mier, and Revilla ( now Guerrero ) in 1749, 1750, and 1752 respectively.

In 1749, he was appointed engineer general to the East India Company, and went out to superintend the reconstruction of their forts.

He went to Dresden in Saxony in 1739, where he studied with Mengs and Dietrich, and created portraits and scenes for the Royal Opera, and mural paintings in Schloss Hubertusburg ( 1749 ).

He received a good education, and in 1749 went to Frankfurt ( Oder ) to learn his father's business, finding time also to become acquainted with English literature.

He went to the German school in Stockholm and enrolled at the University of Uppsala in 1749.

In 1749, Great Britain established the Ohio Company to settle and trade in the area.

Bridgewater was chartered by George II of Great Britain in 1749, and incorporated as one of New Jersey's 104 original townships in 1798.

Feeling a need to defend himself in person against the complaints being sent to the British government, Shirley sailed for Britain in September 1749, just before the long promised compensation reached Boston.

Having given up Louisbourg, Britain in 1749 created its own fortified town on Chebucto Bay which they named Halifax.

In 1749 he was given the additional title of Baron Ponsonby of Sysonby, in the County of Leicester, in the Peerage of Great Britain, which entitled him to a seat in the British House of Lords.

It briefly passed into the possession of the French from 1746 to 1749, but was restored to Great Britain under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession.

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.

He was part of Edward Boscawen's squadron on the Coromandel coast from July 1749, returning to Britain to pay off Sheerness in April 1750.

The borough possesses a military significance for 1700 – 1749, 1750 – 1799, 1850-1874.

Devaraja had started vesting more military authority in his brother, and in 1749 Nanjaraja marched the Mysorean army in support of Nasir Jung.

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye ( November 17, 1685 – December 5, 1749 ) was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer.

The Treaty of Belgrade of 1739 finally fixed the border, the Military Frontier was organized in the region in 1746, and the town of Zemun was granted the rights of a military commune in 1749.

Roy was first mentioned in connection with this effort in a 1749 letter, by which time he was Assistant to the Deputy Quartermaster-General, but without a military commission.

* Diego de Alvear y Ponce de León ( 1749 – 1830 ), Spanish military commander and politician

In 1749, Edward Cornwallis arrived under instruction of the British Government to create a sizeable military and civilian settlement of 4000.

* Pierre Gaultier de Varennes ( 1685 – 1749 ), French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer

Gabriel Hiester ( 1749 – 1824 ) was an American political and military leader from the time of the American Revolution to the early-19th century.

French military forces established Fort Beausejour on the Aulac Ridge in 1749 in response to the British construction of an outpost called Fort Lawrence on the ridge immediately to the east.

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.

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.

Jean continued his administrative career after the death of his guardian, and was ministre de la marine until April 23rd, 1749, when he was removed in a coup.

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

French Enlightenment masterpieces such as Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon ’ s Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière ( begun in 1749 ) and Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert ’ s Encyclopédie ( volumes added between 1751 and 1772 ) thus became Ampère ’ s schoolmasters.

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

* 1749 – First performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks in Green Park, London.

In 1749 the Mughal ruler ceded sovereignty over what is now Pakistan and northwestern India to the Afghans.

In 1749, the Mughal ruler was induced to cede Sindh, the Punjab region and the important trans Indus River to Ahmad Shah in order to save his capital from Afghan attack.

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.

* the lodge of Saint-Jean, affiliated with the Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem d ' Avignon lodge founded in 1749.

'" The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ) Chapter 7.

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.

The first population census was taken in 1749 when Finland was a part of Sweden.

The first population census in Sweden was carried out in 1749.

In 1749, to counter the rising threat of Louisbourg, Halifax was founded and the Royal Navy established a major naval base and citadel.

Claude Louis Berthollet was born in Talloires, near Annecy, then part of the Duchy of Savoy, in 1749.

Diderot's celebrated Lettre sur les aveugles à l ' usage de ceux qui voient (" Letter on the Blind ") ( 1749 ), introduced him to the world as a daringly original thinker.

As early as 1749, Benning Wentworth, New Hampshire's governor, was selling land grants in the area west of the Connecticut River, to which New Hampshire had always laid somewhat dubious claim.

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.

Edward Jenner was born on 17 May 1749 ( 6 May Old Style ) in Berkeley, as the eighth of nine children.

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

About 1749, the family bought a house in the city of Zaragoza and some years later moved into it.

In 1749 he moved to Berlin.

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.

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.

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

A Life of Gregory by the Vartabed Matthew was published in the Armenian language at Venice in 1749 and was translated into English by the Rev.