1749

Events of 1749

January 3 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
April 27 - The first official performance of George Frideric Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks finished early due to the outbreak of fire.
May 19 - King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.

July 9 - Naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded as British answer to Louisbourg.
September 15 - According to mathematical calculations, Pluto moved outside Neptune's orbit to remain the outermost planet until 1979.

While in debtor's prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure).

January 13 - Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist (died 1825)
January 17 - Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist (died 1803)
January 24 - Charles James Fox, English politician (died 1806)
January 29 - King Christian VII of Denmark (died 1808)
March 9 - Honore Mirabeau, French politician (died 1791)
March 10 - Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian librettist (died 1838)
March 23 - Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1827)
May 17 - Edward Jenner, English physician (died 1823)
April 11 - Adelaide Labille-Guiard, French portrait painter (died 1803)
June 15 - Georg Joseph Vogler, German composer (died 1814)
August 28 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (died 1832)
September 25 - Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (died 1817)
September 30 - Comte Siméon Joseph Jérôme, French jurist and politician (died 1842)
November 23 - Edward Rutledge, American statesman (died 1800)
December 17 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (died 1801)