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In 1749, an area south of the James River was divided from Henrico County by the House of Burgesses, and named Chesterfield County.
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1749 and area
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.
In 1749, Great Britain established the Ohio Company to settle and trade in the area.
The first Europeans to enter the area were the French in 1749.
In 1749 the Royal Company of Virginia also received a grant on the westward flowing waters, putting the two companies in competition with one another to settle the area.
Despite his judgment, the area again drew the attention of the Spanish crown, and in 1749 José de Escandón was assigned the task of colonizing the area.
However, a large German contingent settled in the area around 1749 and theirs became the strongest influence when Tewksbury became a township.
The earliest European settlement in the area was a French mission, built by Abbé Picquet in 1749.
The population of the area suffered epidemics in 1643, droughts in 1630 and 1712 – 1714, famines in 1714 and 1786, and flooding in 1637, 1749, 1762 and 1803.
In 1749, Xochimilco became a “ corregimiento ” or semi-autonomous area from Mexico City and would remain so until Independence.
In July 1749, the governor and council of Virginia made the grant on the condition that the company would, within seven years, settle 100 families in the area and erect a fort to protect both them and the British claim on the land.
To help regenerate this area, the Missions San Estanislao ( 1749 ), Villa del Rosario ( 1786 ) and San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú ( 1786 ) were founded.
An infamous group, the " Holkhourst Genge ", terrorised the surrounding area between 1735 and 1749.
He actively participated in the musical life of the city: on 22 November 1737 he organized a concert of vocal and instrumental music, apparently the first public concert in the Charleston area, in February 1740 he succeeded John Salter as organist of St Philip's Church, and in 1749, one year before he died, he opened a singing school.
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 ..
Many families can be traced back to have been living in the area as far back as 1749 ( as far back as reliable records go ).
1749 and south
In 1749, a meteorite with a mass of about was found south of Krasnoyarsk.
Taiseki-ji ’ s pagodaCompleted in 1749, Taiseki-ji ’ s pagoda faces west rather than the usual south to signify that Nichiren Buddhism would spread from the east ( Japan ) to the west ( back to the land of Sakyamuni Buddha and beyond ).
It is thought to have been L-shaped, but after Sir Edward Page-Turner bought the manor in 1749 he had the south wing demolished and the surviving wing turned into a farmhouse.
* Established circa 1749 on the south bank of the San Gabriel River
A mass of about 700 kg was detected in 1749 about south of Krasnojarsk.
1749 and James
In 1777 Madison's cousin, the Right Reverend James Madison ( 1749 – 1812 ), became president of The College of William & Mary.
The Radcliffe Camera ( Camera, meaning " room " in Italian ) ( colloquially, " Rad Cam "; " Radder " in 1930s slang ) is a building in Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in the English Palladian style and built in 1737 – 1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Library.
James Witherspoon built the home in 1749 when the house was located six miles outside of town near where the Battle of the Lower Bridge took place.
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.
The Universal Magazine of September 1749 ( p139 ) quotes that ' William Tylesworth ' was in fact burnt in 1506, and that Thomas Bernard and James Morden, a labourer, were burnt about two years later
Among the rhyming weavers were James Campbell ( 1758 – 1818 ), James Orr ( 1770 – 1816 ), Thomas Beggs ( 1749 – 1847 ), David Herbison ( 1800 – 1880 ), Hugh Porter ( 1780 – 1839 ) and Andrew McKenzie ( 1780 – 1839 ).
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.
* 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 )
described by James Forbes ( 1749 – 1819 ) in his Oriental Memoirs
This story is false: the bridge was built of oak in 1749 by James Essex the Younger ( 1722 – 1784 ) to the design of the master carpenter William Etheridge ( 1709 – 1776 ), 22 years after Newton died.
He was an older brother of James Peale ( 1749 – 1831 ).
He was born at Sunderland, the son of James Field Stanfield ( 1749 – 1824 ) an Irish-born author, actor and former seaman.
* James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn ( 1749 – 1791 ), Scottish nobleman
Challoner's 1749 revision of the Rheims New Testament borrowed heavily from the King James Version of the Bible | King James Version.
* George James Cholmondeley, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley ( 1749 – 1827 ) ( created Marquess of Cholmondeley in 1815 )
* George James Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley ( 1749 – 1827 )
* James Forbes, 16th Lord Forbes ( b. before 1749 – 1804 )
* James Butler, 8th Viscount Mountgarret ( 1686 – 1749 )
James Murray purchased his majority in the 15th Regiment of Foot in 1749, and the lieutenant-colonelcy in 1751.
Over the centuries, many notable architects have worked on it, including its first owner, Thomas Chicheley ( between 1640 and 1670 ), James Gibbs ( between 1713 and 1730 ), James Thornhill ( 1721 ), Henry Flitcroft ( around 1749 ), John Soane ( 1790s ), and H. E. Kendall ( 1840s ).
1749 and River
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.
An etching of the Royal Fireworks display on the River Thames | Thames, London, England in 1749.
In 1749, the portion of Isle of Wight County west of the Blackwater River became Southampton County.
In 1749 the French Jesuits attracted numerous Iroquois ( mostly Onondaga fleeing warfare in the western part of present-day New York ) to a site on the Oswegatchie River near present-day Ogdensburg.
In 1749, Thomas Stuart purchased near the South River, a tribuary of the South Fork of the Shenandoah River.
Around 1749, the first permanent settlements began to appear on what is now the Canadian side of the Detroit River.
He was planning a fifth expedition, this time up the Saskatchewan River, when he died in December 1749.
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.
Wentworth made the first grant, Bennington, a township west of the Connecticut River, on January 3, 1749.
" The river was probably so named by Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye ( 1685 – 1749 ), who was a very active explorer, in the years 1731 and onward, of the vast country from Pigeon River and Rainy Lake to the Saskatchewan and Missouri Rivers, establishing trading posts and missions.
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.
Built in 1749, the Melingriffith Tinplate Works just across the River Taff from Radyr was built on or near the site of an old corn mill that had operated as far back as the late 12th century.
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.
The mouth of the Oswegatchie River, where it joins the St. Lawrence, was the site of a Jesuit mission, Fort de La Présentation, founded in 1749.
Built in 1749, the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works in north Whitchurch, on the bank of the River Taff opposite Radyr, was built on or near the site of an old corn mill that had operated as far back as the late 12th century.
In Acadia, Fort Menagoueche was built to the west of the mouth of the St. John River ( 1748 ), further up the river they re-occupied Fort Nerepis ( 1749 ), Fort Gadiaque-a fortified supply depot-was built at Indian Island ( Skull Island ), Shediac Bay ( 1749 ).
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.
The Presidio La Bahía was moved from the Guadalupe River to Goliad on the San Antonio River in 1749.
A temporary peace was finally negotiated with the Apache in 1749, and at the request of the Indians a mission was established along the San Saba River northwest of San Antonio.
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