In 1749 a rehearsal of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks attracted an audience of 12, 000, and in 1786 a fancy dress jubilee to celebrate the proprietor's long ownership was thronged with 61, 000 revellers.

In 1749 the botanist Peter Collinson inherited an estate which is now part of Mill Hill School, here he created a botanical garden.

In 1749, he purchased Het Hof ( The Courtyard ), an estate in the centre of Hillegom.

In 1749, Zinzendorf leased Lindsey House, a large manor in Chelsea built on the estate of Sir Thomas More to be a headquarters for work in England.

Appleton Estate is a sugar estate and distillery in Jamaica that has been handcrafting rums since 1749.

Thomas Lynch, whose father John emigrated in 1691 from Galway, Ireland to Bordeaux, inherited an estate in the village of Bages through his wife, Elizabeth, in 1749.

Sir Christopher Sykes, 2nd Baronet ( 1749 – 1801 ) greatly expanded the estate.

When Sir John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu died on 5 July 1749, his estate had been entailed to his daughter, Lady Mary Montagu, who was married to Sir George Brudenell, the 4th Earl of Cardigan.

The oldest houses in the village, Frogmore Cottage, Lamp Cottage, Old Manor Farm, Tunmore Cottage among others, had already been built when the London brewer John Raymond sold the Hatchlands Park estate to Admiral Boscawen in 1749.

After being owned by his son, the estate was sold to in 1744 to merchant William Crawfurd of Birkhead, who in 1749 acquired Easter Nether Possil, he thus reunited the lands which had been subdivided in 1588.

Faced with the exodus of serfs to neighbouring Transylvania, Mavrocordatos allowed them freedom of movement from one boyar estate to another, in exchange for a 10 löwenthaler fee ( the effective abolition of serfdom: 1746 in Wallachia, 1749 in Moldavia ).

The building subsequently passed through various owners, including the Waldegrave family in 1557 and the Meade Waldo family from 1749 to 1903.

* François André Philidor vs NN, Unknown 1749, Bishop's Opening: Boi Variation ( C23 ), 1 – 0 This game — possibly a composition by Philidor — demonstrates the value of passed pawns

In 1749, the Consolidation Act was passed, reorganising the Royal Navy.

In 1749 an Act of Parliament was passed to allow the creation of the present town.

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.

William Horton died in 1748 – 1749 and his property on Jekyll passed through many hands until, just before the year 1800, the entire island became the property of Christophe du Bignon.

There had been attempts to turnpike the York-Northallerton road that passed through Skelton in 1749, but failed.

The first European known to have passed the site was Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye in the spring of 1749.

Three of five siblings survived to adulthood, Denise Diderot ( 1715 – 1797 ) and their youngest brother Pierre-Didier Diderot ( 1722 – 1787 ), and finally their sister Angélique Diderot ( 1720 – 1749 ).

He had an older brother Erik who was born in 1749, also in Varnhem.

* Jeremiah Olney ( 1749 – 1812 ), Continental Army soldier and older brother of Stephen Olney

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

In 1749 Galden Tseren's son Lamdarjaa seized the throne from his younger brother.

He was an older brother of James Peale ( 1749 – 1831 ).

In 1749 he was also created Baron Herbert of Chirbury and Ludlow, with remainder firstly his brother Richard Herbert and secondly to his kinsman Francis Herbert, of Ludlow.

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.

His second son, John Hampden-Trevor ( 1749 – 1824 ), died only three weeks after he had succeeded his brother Thomas as 3rd Viscount Hampden, the titles becoming extinct.

* Edward Rutledge ( 1749 – 1800 ), U. S. politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence ; brother of John Rutledge

Mrs Blouin born Despeignes had already had 12 children, of which, at 44 years, in February 1749, before having two others, at 45 and 49 years, two twins of opposite sex, as she herself had a twin brother.

Scipione Piattoli was born November 10, 1749 in Florence to a family of painters ( father, Gaetano Piattoli ; mother, Maria Anna Bacherini ; brother, Giuseppe Piattoli ).

* James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn ( 1749 – 1791 ) unmarried ; succeeded by his brother.

It had been inherited by his father's older brother, Duke August ( 1652 – 1689 ), and nephew Frederick William I ( 1682 – 1719 ), and was then sold by the latter's widow to Peter August's older brother, Duke Frederick William II ( 1687 – 1749 ), in 1732.

* May 24 – James Peale, American miniaturist and still-life painter, a younger brother of Charles Willson Peale ( b. 1749 )

Robert Colling ( 1749 – 7 March 1820 ), and his brother Charles ( 1751 – 16 January 1836 ), English stock breeders, famous for their improvement of the Shorthorn breed of cattle, were the sons of Charles Colling, a farmer of Ketton near Darlington.

* 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 ).

) In 1749 Richard Dunthorne confirmed Halley's suspicion after re-examining ancient records, and produced the first quantitative estimate for the size of this apparent effect: a centurial rate of + 10 " ( arcseconds ) in lunar longitude ( a surprisingly good result for its time, not far different from values assessed later, e. g. in 1786 by de Lalande, and to compare with values from about 10 " to nearly 13 " being derived about a century later.

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

Hester was the sister of Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, whose title she inherited under a special remainder in 1749 ; in the same year ( or maybe in 1751 ), her husband being long dead, she was created 1st Countess Temple.

* 1749 / 50 Benjamin Mather Richard Butler

* Captain Richard Haddock, 1734 – 1749

Harriot married firstly in 1726 Richard Eliot, having nine children including Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot and secondly in 1749 to John Hamilton by whom she had a son.

Much of the text of the 1582 / 1610 bible, however, employed a densely latinate vocabulary, to the extent of being in places unreadable ; and consequently this translation was replaced by a revision undertaken by bishop Richard Challoner ; the New Testament in three editions 1749, 1750, and 1752 ; the Old Testament ( minus the Vulgate apocrypha ), in 1750.

The Douay – Rheims Bible, however, achieved little currency, even among English-speaking Catholics, until it was substantially revised between 1749 and 1752 by Richard Challoner, an English bishop, formally appointed to the deserted see of Debra.

* Sir Richard Temple, 4th Baronet ( 1669 – 1749 ) ( created Viscount Cobham in 1718 ; see below )

* Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham ( 1669 – 1749 )

Matthew and his wife Anna Lloyd Tilghman ( 1723 – 1794 ) had five children: Margaret ( 1742 – 1817 ), Matthew Ward ( 1743 – 1753 ), Richard ( 1747 – 1806 ), Lloyd ( 1749 – 1811 ), and Anna Maria ( 1755 – 1843 ).

Richard and Elizabeth's third son, Thomas Dawson, also sat as Member of Parliament for County Monaghan from 1749 to 1768.

* 1749 Richard Coleman executed " for a murder he did not committ " on 12th April.

* Richard Dore ( 1749 – 1800 ), English lawyer and judge