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Henry Fielding proved his mastery of the form in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ), The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great ( 1743 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ), but, as Fielding himself wrote, these novels were written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, not in imitation of the picaresque novel ; Cervantes himself wrote a short picaresque novel, Rinconete y Cortadillo part of his Novelas Ejemplares ( Exemplary Novels ).
In 1749 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon used the name " le Grand Danois ," ( translated by William Smellie as " Great Dane ").
Bridgewater was chartered by George II of Great Britain in 1749, and incorporated as one of New Jersey's 104 original townships in 1798.
On December 15, 1749, a custom house was established on the Temernik River, a tributary of the Don, by edict of Empress Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great, in order to control trade with Turkey.
He was Master of the Great Wardrobe 1749 – 1754 and again 1755 – 1760, and was joint Postmaster-General in 1765 and 1766.
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.
Great St. Mary's church was originally built in the 13th century ( although a church on the site existed in Saxon times ) and includes a Tudor tower containing a clock bell ( 1664 ) and eight ringing bells, the oldest of which dates from 1749.
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.
The first Rumyantsev to gain prominence, Alexander Ivanovich ( 1680 – 1749 ), served as ordinary of Peter the Great in the Preobrazhensky regiment.
Portland is identified in The Handy-book of Literary Curiosities ( 1909 ) as one of the perpetrators of The Great Bottle Hoax of 1749 in which a large crowd was lured to a London theater with the expectation of seeing a man jump into a " quart bottle ".
The Wansford to Stamford trust on the Great North Road had been set up in 1749 but in 1756, its sphere was extended through Stamford to Bourne.

1749 and Britain
In 1749, Clinton went to Britain to pursue his military career.
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.
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.

1749 and established
In 1749, to counter the rising threat of Louisbourg, Halifax was founded and the Royal Navy established a major naval base and citadel.
In 1749 the city of Port-au-Prince was established on the West coast, which in 1770 took over as the capital of the colony from Cap-Français, however that same year the 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake and tsunami destroyed the city killing 200 people immediately, and 30, 000 later from famine and disease brought on by the natural disaster.
The capital of Nova Scotia was changed from Annapolis Royal to the newly established Halifax in 1749.
In 1744 Bishop Francisco Javier de Luna Victoria y Castro established the College of San Ignacio de Loyola and on June 3, 1749 founded La Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Javier.
The most infamous club associated with the name was established in England by Sir Francis Dashwood, and met irregularly from around 1749 to around 1760, and possibly up until 1766.
Cumberland County was established in 1749 from Goochland County.
Culpeper County was established in 1749 from Orange County.
He established four towns on the southern banks of the Rio Grande including Reynosa ( 1749 ), which was originally located across the river from the site of present-day Peñitas.
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Plaistow was officially established as a town in 1749 after a boundary dispute between the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the New Hampshire Grants.
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Kingwood was originally established around 1749 when it was created from Bethlehem Township, though the exact details are uncertain.
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
York County, when separated from Lancaster in 1749, had no definitely established northern boundary.
The Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga was established in 1749.

1749 and Ohio
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.
In 1749 English colonists built the first frontier fort, Fort Ohio, at Ridgeley.
In the second half of 1749 the French explorer Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville claimed French sovereignty over the Ohio Valley, burying a lead plaque at the meeting point of the Rivers Ohio and Kanawha, naming the place Point Pleasant.
:( in the year 1749, in the reign of King Louis XV, we, Celeron, commander of a detachment sent by Commander de La Galissonière, Commander General of New France, for the restoration of peace in various untamed villages in the region, have buried ed this plaque at the confluence of the Ohio and Tchadakoin this 29th day of July near the fine river bank, to commemorate the retaking into possession of the afore-mentioned river bank and all the surrounding lands on both river shores back to the river sources, as secured by previous kings of France, and maintained by force of arms and by treaties, specifically the Treaties of Rijswick, of Utrecht and of Aix la Chapelle )
Between June 15 and November 10, 1749, an expedition headed by Celeron de Bienville, a French officer, traveled down the Allegheny and Ohio to bolster the French claim to the region.
Rumor of Celeron de Bienville's 1749 expedition to claim the Ohio Valley for France and to drive out the English traders prompted Governor James Hamilton ( Pennsylvania ) to dispatch Croghan to Logstown to investigate.
The Virginia's Ohio Company agents Col. Thomas Cresap and Hugh Parker made overtures to the Indians at Pickawillany, which Croghan opposed in November 1749.
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.
Christopher Gist was one of the first English-speaking explorers to travel through and write about the Ohio Country in 1749.
Fort Ohio ( also known as the " New Store ") was a stockade fort erected by Job Pearsall in 1749 on the present site of Ridgeley, West Virginia.

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