From 1744 to 1746 he was ambassador at Venice and from 1749 to 1751 he represented his country at The Hague.

John Watts ( August 27, 1749 New York City-September 3, 1836 ) was an American lawyer and politician from New York City who represented New York in the U. S. House.

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 ).

His father, Giuseppe Buonaparte, had represented Ajaccio at the Council of Corte in 1749.

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.

Since Pappus gives somewhat full particulars of its propositions, this text has also seen efforts to restore it, not only by P. Fermat ( Oeuvres, i., 1891, pp. 3 – 51 ) and F. Schooten ( Leiden, 1656 ) but also, most successfully of all, by R. Simson ( Glasgow, 1749 ).

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.

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.

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.

Thomas Cannon wrote what may be the earliest published defence of homosexuality in English, Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd ( 1749 ).

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.

* 1675 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician ( d. 1749 )

In the English-speaking world, the Douay-Rheims Bible — translated from the Latin Vulgate by expatriate recusants in Rheims, France in 1582 ( New Testament ) and in Douai, France in 1609 ( Old Testament )— which was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749 – 1752 ( the 1750 revision is that which is printed today ), was, until the prompting for " new translations from the original languages " given by Pope Pius XII in the 1942 encyclical letter Divino afflante spiritu and the Second Vatican Council, the translation used by most Catholics ( after Divino afflante spiritu, translations multiplied in the Catholic world, just as they multiplied in the Protestant world around the same time beginning with the Revised Standard Version, with various other translations being used around the world for English-language liturgies, ranging from the New American Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and the upcoming English Standard Version Catholic lectionary ).

Two men independently developed the octant around 1730: John Hadley ( 1682 – 1744 ), an English mathematician, and Thomas Godfrey ( 1704 – 1749 ), a glazier in Philadelphia.

* January 26 – Edward Jenner, English physician and medical researcher ( b. 1749 )

* April 3 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist ( d. 1749 )

* March 18 – Matthew Decker, English merchant and writer ( d. 1749 )

* October 24 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician ( d. 1749 )

Accidental crosses were noticed as far back as 1749 in the southern English colonies of North America.

Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr, the English word dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749.

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.

In 1749 English colonists built the first frontier fort, Fort Ohio, at Ridgeley.

Another edition of the Lineae tertii ordinis was published in Paris in 1797 ; another edition of the Methodus differentialis in London in 1764 ; and a translation of the latter into English by Halliday in London in 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 ).

First published on 28 February 1749, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel.

* Cater Rand ( 1749 – 1825 ), English surveyor

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 ).

* November-Alethea Lewis, English novelist ( born 1749 )

* Fanny Hill ( 1749 ) by John Cleland – depicts mutual flagellation, between Fanny and an English client.

The Universal etymological English dictionary of 1749 gives the town as " Chester upon Street " ( and describes it as " a Village in the Bishoprick of Durham ").

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.

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

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.

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.

While in Paris, Rousseau became a close friend of French philosopher Diderot and, beginning with some articles on music in 1749, contributed numerous articles to Diderot and D ' Alembert's great Encyclopédie, the most famous of which was an article on political economy written in 1755.

Madison's parents were married on September 15, 1749.

After three years he studied the subject in Paris ( University of Paris ), then in 1749 took the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Leyden with a thesis on blood circulation.

A generation later, Father Le Loutre's War began when Edward Cornwallis arrived to establish Halifax with 13 transports on June 21, 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.

He returned to Sudbury in 1748 – 1749 and concentrated on the painting of portraits.

Year 1749 ( MDCCXLIX ) was a common year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Liszt chose the date in honour of Weimar's most famous citizen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was born on 28 August 1749.

Brisson produced a six-volume work Ornithologie in 1760 and Buffon's included nine volumes ( volumes 16-24 ) on birds Histoire naturelle des oiseaux ( 1770 – 1785 ) in his work on science Histoire naturelle générale et particulière ( 1749 – 1804 ).

In his Histoire Naturelle ( 1749 ), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, wrote of the " Black Cougar ": " M. de la Borde, King ’ s physician at Cayenne, informs me, that in the American Continent there are three species of rapacious animals ; that the first is the jaguar, which is called the tiger ; that the second is the couguar, called the red tiger, on account of the uniform redness of his hair ; that the jaguar is of the size of a large bull-dog, and weighs about 200 pounds ; that the cougar is smaller, less dangerous, and not so frequent in the neighbourhood of Cayenne as the jaguar ; and that both these animals take six years in acquiring their full growth.

Some later works with an impact on Rosicrucianism were the Opus magocabalisticum et theosophicum by George von Welling ( 1719 ), of alchemical and paracelsian inspiration, and the Aureum Vellus oder Goldenes Vliess by Hermann Fictuld in 1749.

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 ).

* 1749 – Émilie du Châtelet, in her French translation and commentary on Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, derives the conservation of energy from the first principles of Newtonian mechanics.

An etching of the Royal Fireworks display on the River Thames | Thames, London, England in 1749.

The opening ceremony took place on 13 April 1749 and soon known as ' the Physic Library '.

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.

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.