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.

This aspect of the novel, plus Cleland's presumed offence at Westminster School, lack of intimate friends, and his unmarried status have aided conjecture that he was homosexual, as has his bitter falling out with friend Thomas Cannon, author of the pamphlet Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd ( 1749 ), the earliest surviving published defence of homosexuality in English ( Gladfelder ).

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

Burnet graduated from Princeton University in 1749, studied medicine under Dr. Staats in White Plains, New York, and started his practice in Newark.

The origins of the Appleton Estate go back to 1655 when the British took control of Jamaica from Spain, Rum production started on the island in 1749.

In December 1749, he started writing anonymous, critical reviews of some articles published in the Philosophical Transactions.

During Father Le Loutre's War, the Acadians at Grand Pre played a significant role in supporting the Acadian Exodus out of mainland Nova Scotia, which started in 1749.

The polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ) identified the philistine personality, by asking:

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.

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, Reynolds met Commodore Augustus Keppel, who invited him to join HMS Centurion, of which he had command, on a voyage to the Mediterranean.

He was highly demanding and bad-tempered, unable to maintain longstanding partnerships with his librettists, with the exception of Louis de Cahusac, who collaborated with him on several operas, including Les fêtes de l ' Hymen et de l ' Amour ( 1747 ), Zaïs ( 1748 ), Naïs ( 1749 ), Zoroastre ( 1749 ; revised 1756 ), La naissance d ' Osiris ( 1754 ), and Anacréon ( the first of Rameau's operas by that name, 1754 ).

Based on the positive reaction to his two turns as the Apostle Peter, Fox assigned him another third-billed, top-tier role as a stalwart man of God, Franciscan friar Junipero Serra, who, between 1749 and his death in 1784, founded missions in Alta California.

His projects were often misunderstood, and in 1736 he was even banished from Saxony, but in 1749 the government rescinded its decree and begged him to establish within its jurisdiction more settlements like that at Herrnhut.

The discovery that the poet had printed secretly 1500 copies of The Patriot King, caused him to publish a correct version in 1749, and stirred up a further altercation with Warburton, who defended his friend against Bolingbroke's bitter aspersions, the latter, whose conduct was generally reprehended, publishing a Familiar Epistle to the most Impudent Man Living.

The appointment of Mengs in 1749 as first painter to Frederick Augustus, elector of Saxony, did not prevent his spending much time in Rome, where he had married Margarita Guazzi who had sat for him as a model in 1748, and abjured the Protestant faith, and where he became in 1754 director of the Vatican school of painting, nor did this hinder him on two occasions from obeying the call of Charles III of Spain to Madrid.

* James White ( politician ) ( 1749 – 1809 ), Continental Congressman from North Carolina and non-voting member of the U. S. House of Representatives for the Southwest Territory ; usually referred to as " Dr. James White " to distinguish him from James White ( General )

In his collected writings, which were published in a tenfold series between 1749 and 1800, over 40, 000 poems and 1, 300 prose texts are listed, making him one of the most prolific writers of all time.

King John, however, was not pleased and recalled him in 1749.

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

The couple had a happy marriage and brought forth 15 children-all of whom predeceased him, as did his wife, who died of tuberculosis in 1749, 24 years before him.

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.

He was apprenticed to potter Thomas Whieldon in November ( Martinmas ) 1749, and remained with him until at least 1754, the year in which Josiah Wedgwood became Whieldon's business partner.

When, on 11 May 1749, Commodore Keppel sailed from Plymouth to the Mediterranean, as Commodore commanding the Mediterranean Fleet, ( with his pennant in his old ship HMS Centurion intending to persuade the Dey of Algiers to restrain the piratical operations of his subjects ) Reynolds travelled with him as far as Minorca and there painted the first of his 6 portraits of Keppel, left, along with others of officers of the British garrison there.

The king of France in 1749, shortly before the death of La Vérendrye, conferred on him the cross of St. Louis as a recognition of the importance of his discoveries, and thence the name of the St. Louis River appears to have come.

Judging, however, that his rewards were not commensurate with his merits, he offered his services to Frederick II of Prussia in 1747, who at once gave him the rank of field marshal, made him governor of Berlin in 1749, and soon came to cherish towards him, as towards his brother, the 10th Earl Marischal, a strong personal regard.

Commissions for portrait busts and monuments for country churches supported him until 1745, when he received the first of his commissions for a funeral monument in Westminster Abbey, for the late Duke of Argyll ( installed 1749 ).

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.

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

In 15 – 16th-century French and English depictions of relationships between women ( Lives of Gallant Ladies by Brantôme in 1665, John Cleland's 1749 erotica Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, L ' Espion Anglais by various authors in 1778 ), writers ' attitudes spanned from amused tolerance to arousal, whereupon a male character would participate to complete the act.

When the 2nd Duke of Montagu in 1749 died without male issue, the 3rd Duke of Manchester, and his heirs, became heirs general of Drogo de Montaigu, of the Kings of Mann, of the Earls of Salisbury, and of the Barons de Monthermer.

The viscountcy of Cobham and its junior title the barony of Cobham were created with remainder, failing male issue, to ( 1 ) Lord Cobham's eldest sister Hester Grenville ( who succeeded as second Viscountess in 1749 and was created Earl Temple in 1750 ) and the heirs male of her body and ( 2 ) to his third sister Christian, with remainder to the heirs male of her body.

* John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu ( 1690 – 1749 ), only son of the 1st Duke, died without male issue

Ten years were spent in this operation, a full account of which was published by Bouguer in 1749, La figure de la terre.

* La figure de la terre déterminée ( Paris 1749 )

The epistolary novel as a genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his immensely successful novels Pamela ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1749 ).

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

As a critic, Sarah Fielding wrote Remarks on Clarissa in 1749, concerning the novel Clarissa by Samuel Richardson.

His Tom Jones of 1749 offers up the other side of the argument from Clarissa.

His Tom Jones of 1749 offers up the other side of the argument from Clarissa.

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.

In order to finance the budget deficit, which amounted to 100 million livres in 1745, Machault d ' Arnouville created a tax on the twentieth of all revenues which affected also the privileged classes ( Edict of Marly, 1749 ).

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.

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.

All capital criminals were to be sent to Almadén by court order in 1749, but the mine simply couldn't accommodate all of them.

At the close of the Haymarket season in 1749, Foote left London for Paris in order to spend money he had recently inherited.

In 1749, Ahmad Shah Abdali invaded India in order to avenge his defeat earlier on.