* September 28 – Charlotte Melmoth, British & American actress ( b. 1749 )

* October 4 – Samuel Jackson Pratt, British writer, poet and actor ( b. 1749 )

The return of Louisbourg to French control by the peace treaty prompted the British to found Halifax in 1749 under Edward Cornwallis.

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.

Within Acadia and Nova Scotia, Father Le Loutre's War ( 1749 – 1755 ) began with the British founding of Halifax.

Madras was returned to the British as part of the peace agreement in early 1749.

From 1749 until 1884, British Honduras was governed as a dependency of the British colony of Jamaica.

To guard against Mi ' kmaq, Acadian and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) ( 1751 ), Lunenburg ( 1753 ) and Lawrencetown ( 1754 ).

To guard against Mi ' kmaq, Acadian, and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Lunenburg ( 1753 ) and Lawrencetown ( 1754 ).

Halifax was founded in 1749 with the arrival of HMS Sphinx and thirteen transport ships that brought 2, 500 British settlers to Nova Scotia.

William Shirley ( 2 December 1694 – 24 March 1771 ) was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( 1741 – 1749 and 1753 – 1756 ) and as Governor of the Bahamas in the 1760s.

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.

Up to the 1760s Spain had never shown any interest in the Falklands themselves and they had no Spanish name, but they did dissuade the British from forming a colony there in 1749.

Then in 1749 the Governors of Jamaica appointed Administrators for British Honduras.

* John Randolph ( bishop of London ) ( 1749 – 1813 ), British cleric, professor and bishop

Lady Harriet Acland ( 3 January 1749 / 50 – 21 July 1815 ) was a British noblewoman, nurse and diarist.

Rice ( 1989 ), ‘ Lord Rochford at Turin, 1749 – 55: A Pivotal Phase in Anglo-Italian Relations in the Eighteenth Century ’, in Knights Errant and True Englishmen: British Foreign Policy, 1660 – 1800, ed.

* John Sullivan ( MP ) ( 1749 – 1839 ), British politician and Privy Counsellor

Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, PC, FRS, Viceroy of Ireland ( 1714 – 16 September 1777 ), known as 2nd Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, between 1727 and 1749, was a British diplomat and general.

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.

Prior to the influence of Longfellow's poem, historians generally focused on the British founding of Halifax ( 1749 ) as the beginning of Nova Scotia.

Thomson's ancestor, Archibald Thomson ( born May 1749 ), migrated to British North America in 1773, marrying Elizabeth McKay, of Quebec.

Thus the foundations for the establishment of a town, which in 1749 received its charter from the Colonial government in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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.

In 1950, the government transformed the hunting and fishing reservation into a park and renamed it in honour of explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Lord of La Vérendrye, on the 200th anniversary of his death ( 1749 ).

The Count gave two private musical performances in London in April and May 1749.

The Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1911 ), who commissioned work on the imperial gardens on the hill in 1749, gave Longevity Hill its present-day name in 1752, in celebration of his mother's 60th birthday.

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.

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.

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, the land was granted by Governor Benning Wentworth, and he renamed it Effingham for the Howard family, who were Earls of Effingham and who were related to the Wentworths by marriage.

After Brenton's death in 1749, the land was granted to another group of settlers and named Litchfield after George Henry Lee, Earl of Litchfield.

The name Hanover was suggested by Michael Tanner, who was one of the commissioners who laid out York County in 1749 and owned large tracts of land southeast of the town.

* Moldavia: officially ended in 1749 ( land reforms in 1864 )

The land on which the town is built was originally conveyed from Thomas Lord Fairfax to George Mason in 1749.

Wentworth was authorised by the crown to grant patents of unoccupied land, and in 1749 began making grants in what is now southern Vermont, enriching himself by a clever scheme of selling land to developers in spite of jurisdictional claims for this region by the Province of New York.

The New Hampshire Grants or Benning Wentworth Grants were land grants made between 1749 and 1764 by the provincial governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth.

After 1749, Benning Wentworth, the Royal Governor of New Hampshire, granted land to anyone in a land granting scheme designed to enrich himself and his family.

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.

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 ).

" Among those buying land from Croghan's 1749 Indian grant was George Washington through his agent William Crawford.

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.

He returned to his native land before 1749, when he obtained a post at Thorberg, being transferred in 1764 to Landshut and Fraubrunnen.

* Elias Langham ( 1749 – 1830 ), American politician, land surveyor and soldier

Georgetown was established in 1751 when the Maryland legislature purchased sixty acres of land for the town from George Gordon and George Beall at the price of £ 280, while Alexandria, Virginia was founded in 1749.

In 1749, the regiment was at the site of Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the soldiers cleared the land for the new town.