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.

1296 – 1316 ): a eunuch slave who became a general in the army of Alauddin Khilji, ruler of the Delhi sultanate. European illustration of one of the " white eunuchs " of the Ottoman Sultan's court ( 1749 )

In the second half of 1749 the French explorer Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville claimed French sovereignty over the Ohio Valley, burying a lead plaque at the meeting point of the Rivers Ohio and Kanawha, naming the place Point Pleasant.

On 11 December 1749, Pakubuwana II signed an agreement in which the “ sovereignty ” of Mataram was given to VOC.

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, the Second Carnatic War broke out as the result of a war between a son, Nasir Jung, and a grandson, Muzaffer Jung, of the deceased Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad to take over Nizam's thone in Hyderabad.

An equivalent relationship had been conjectured by Euler over a hundred years earlier, in 1749, for the Dirichlet eta function ( alternating zeta function )

Sometime later in its early history, Penn began to consider 1749 as its founding date ; this year was referenced for over a century, including at the centennial celebration in 1849.

The Danish merchant Jacob Severin was granted authority over the colony from 1734 to 1740, which was extended until 1749, assisted by royal patronage and Moravian sponsorship of some of Egede's missionary activities.

He also wrote a Life of the Right Honourable Robert Boyle ( London, 1744 ); Inquiry into the share which King Charles I had in the transactions of the Earl of Glamorgan for bringing over a body of Irish rebels ( London, 1756 ); Historical view of Negotiations between the Courts of England, France and Brussels 1592-1617 ( London, 1749 ); Life of Archbishop Tillotson ( London, 1753 ); History of the Royal Society of London ( London, 1756 – 1757 ); Life of Henry, Prince of Wales ( London, 1760 ), and many other works.

He contributed thirty reviews for the Monthly Review and over two hundred letters for the Public Advertiser between 1749 and 1787.

In 1749, the Typographical Antiquities appeared, a quarto of over 600 pages, dedicated to Lord Chancellor Hardwicke.

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.

In 1749, during a struggle for power, the son of the Khan of Tabriz, Azad Khan Afghan, began a campaign for independence which removed the province of Atropatene ( current Azerbaijan ) from the Persian empire, while in the west the Qajar tribe led by Mohammad Hassan Khan took over the region of Mazandaran.

His more important work would appear over the years 1749 through 1752.

It was the artist's country retreat from 1749 until his death in 1764 ; he had a " painting room " over his coach-house at the bottom of the garden.

With the exception of the roof ( which was destroyed by fire in 1738 and repaired in 1749 ), it is today as it was over 300 years ago.

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

Around 1749, the first permanent settlements began to appear on what is now the Canadian side of the Detroit River.

The baby, a girl named Stanislas-Adélaïde Du Châtelet, was born on 4 September 1749 in what at first seemed an easy delivery ; but Émilie contracted a fever and died on 10 September.

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.

Lewis married Jane Strother ( from Stafford County ) on January 26, 1749, and moved north to what would later become Rockingham County.

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.

* 1749 – 1754 – Liutenant General Humphrey Bland is the Governor of Gibraltar.

* 1749 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.

* 1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

The first documented instance of this demonstration is in a 1749 letter by Franklin.

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 ).

* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ) is closely identified with Enlightenment values, progressing from Sturm und Drang (" Storm and Stress "); leader in Weimar Classicism.

The exact date of his birth is not known ; various sources claim different dates between 1749 and 1753.

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The flight route designation for the flight between JFK and Santo Domingo is now Flight 1749 using a Boeing 767-300 or the Boeing 757-200.

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.

Upon the death of Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet in 1749, the wealth left by his grandfather, Sir George Downing, who served both Cromwell and Charles II and built 10 Downing Street ( a door formerly from Number 10 is in use in the college ), was applied by his will.

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.

Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, founded in 1749, is the fourth oldest Jewish congregation in the continental United States.

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.

The earliest known orchestral part specifically for the instrument is in the Vienna version of Niccolò Jommelli's opera Ezio dating from 1749, where it was given the Italian name corno inglese.

In May 1749, the first Culpeper Court convened in the home of Robert Coleman, not far from where the Town of Culpeper is presently located.

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

It replaced a structure built in 1749, but that was not the first mill at Hoxne, since a mill is shown on Kirby's map of Suffolk, dated 1736, and two mills are mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, although this probably meant that there were two sets of stones.