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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.
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About 1749, the family bought a house in the city of Zaragoza and some years later moved into it.
York County was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster County and named either for the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and shire of York in England.
Two preexisting settlements were included in the territory: the port of Georgetown, Maryland founded in 1751, and the city of Alexandria, Virginia, founded in 1749.
In 1749 Sombor gained royal free city status.
) In 1749 an intendancy was established in every province, with the intendant also holding the office of corregidor of the capital city.
About a quarter century later, in 1749, there was another unsuccessful uprising in Bern against the patrician families of the city.
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.
Altamira can also refer to the city, founded in 1749, that is its municipal seat and second-largest community.
At the general election in July 1747 Grant was again returned for the Elgin burghs, and in April 1749 supported the grant to the city of Glasgow for the losses sustained during the rebellion in a vigorous speech.
On 20 January 1749, the city and the majority of its mines were destroyed by an earthquake.
Meanwhile, Ali Muhammad Khan ( 1737 – 1749 ), grandson of Shah Alam, captured the city of Bareilly and made it his capital, later uniting the Rohillas to form the ' State of Rohilkhand ', between 1707 and 1720, making Bareilly his capital.
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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.
It was Pierre-Simon Laplace ( 1749 – 1827 ) who introduced a general version of the theorem and used it to approach problems in celestial mechanics, medical statistics, reliability, and jurisprudence.
The first population census was taken in 1749 when Finland was a part of Sweden.
The first population census in Sweden was carried out in 1749.
In 1749, to counter the rising threat of Louisbourg, Halifax was founded and the Royal Navy established a major naval base and citadel.
Claude Louis Berthollet was born in Talloires, near Annecy, then part of the Duchy of Savoy, in 1749.
In 2001, an uncut German DVD version was released, but the Berlin-Tiergarten Court ordered seizure of the DVD in April 2002 ( Case Number 351 Gs 1749 / 02 ).
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.
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.
Edward Jenner was born on 17 May 1749 ( 6 May Old Style ) in Berkeley, as the eighth of nine children.
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.
Hans Egede's Hope Colony was organized under the auspices of the Bergen Greenland Company prior to its bankruptcy in 1727 ; it was succeeded by the merchant Jacob Severin ( 1733 – 1749 ), the General Trade Company ( Det almindelige Handelskompagni ; 1749 – 1774 ), and finally the Royal Greenland Trading Department ( KGH ; 1776 – 1908 ).
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.
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.
In 1749, Rousseau was paying daily visits to Diderot, who had been thrown into the fortress of Vincennes under a lettre de cachet for opinions in his " Lettre sur les aveugles ," that hinted at materialism, a belief in atoms, and natural selection.
Their son Alexander Contee Hanson, Sr. ( 1749 – 1806 ) was a notable essayist.
The capital of Nova Scotia was changed from Annapolis Royal to the newly established Halifax in 1749.
It was turned into a French-style garden in 1749.
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In 1749, Great Britain established the Ohio Company to settle and trade in the area.
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.
The most infamous club associated with the name was established in England by Sir Francis Dashwood, and met irregularly from around 1749 to around 1760, and possibly up until 1766.
Cumberland County was established in 1749 from Goochland County.
Culpeper County was established in 1749 from Orange County.
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.
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Plaistow was officially established as a town in 1749 after a boundary dispute between the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the New Hampshire Grants.
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Kingwood was originally established around 1749 when it was created from Bethlehem Township, though the exact details are uncertain.
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
Category: Populated places established in 1749
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York County, when separated from Lancaster in 1749, had no definitely established northern boundary.
The Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga was established in 1749.
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