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| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1746 1747 1748 - 1749 - 1750 1751 1752
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| align="center" colspan=2 | 1720s 1730s - 1740s ''' - 1750s 1760s 1770s
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| align="center" | - 18th Century ''' - 19th Century
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1749 was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
Births
- January 13 - Friedrich Müller , painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1825 )
- January 17 - Vittorio Alfieri , Italian dramatist (d. 1803 )
- January 24 - Charles James Fox , English politician (d. 1806 )
- January 29 - King Christian VII Of Denmark (d. 1808 )
- March 9 - Honore Mirabeau , French politician (d. 1791 )
- March 10 - Lorenzo Da Ponte , Italian librettist (d. 1838 )
- March 23 - Pierre Simon De Laplace , French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827 )
- May 17 - Edward Jenner , English physician (d. 1823 )
- April 11 - Adelaide Labille-Guiard , French portrait painter (d. 1803 )
- June 15 - Georg Joseph Vogler , German composer (d. 1814 )
- August 28 - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe , German writer (d. 1832 )
- 30 September - Comte Siméon Joseph Jérôme , French jurist and politician (d. 1842 )
- November 23 - Edward Rutledge , American statesman (d. 1800 )
- December 17 - Domenico Cimarosa , Italian composer (d. 1801 )
- Abraham Gottlob Werner , German geologist (d. 1817 )
Deaths
- February 8 - Jan Van Huysum , Dutch painter (b. 1682 )
- May 24 - Graf Valentin Potocki , Polish nobleman
- June 19 - Ambrose Philips , English poet (b. 1675 )
- July 3 - William Jones , Welsh mathematician (b. 1675 )
- July 12 - Charles De La Boische, Marquis De Beauharnois , Governor of New France
- August 13 - Johann Elias Schlegel , German critic and poet (b. 1719 )
- September 10 - Emilie Du Chatelet , French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706 )
- September 14 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham , English soldier and politician (b. 1675 )
- October 4 - Franz Freiherr Von Der Trenck , Austrian soldier (b. 1711 )
- December 5 - Pierre Gaultier De Varennes Et De La Vérendrye , French-Canadian explorer and trader (b. 1685 )
- December 19 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti , Italian priest and composer (b. 1672 )
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