Editing 1749 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 3]]
** [[Benning Wentworth]] issues the first of the [[New Hampshire Grants]], leading to the establishment of [[Vermont]].
** The first issue of ''[[Berlingske]]'', [[Denmark]]'s oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
* [[January 21]] &ndash; The [[Teatro Filarmonico]], the main opera theater in Verona, Italy, is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
* [[February]] &ndash; The second part of [[John Cleland]]'s [[Erotic literature|erotic novel]] ''[[Fanny Hill]]'' (''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'') is published in London. The author is released from [[debtors' prison]] in March.
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Henry Fielding]]'s [[comic novel]] ''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]'' is published in London.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology313">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/313|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/313 313]}}</ref> Also this year, Fielding becomes [[magistrate]] at [[Bow Street]], and first enlists the help of the [[Bow Street Runners]], an early police force (eight men at first).<ref name=CBH219220>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=219–220|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash; A "corpse riot" breaks out in [[Glasgow]] after a body disappears from a churchyard in the [[Gorbals]] district.  Suspicion falls on anatomy students at the Glasgow Infirmary "had raised a dead body from the grave and carried it to the college" for dissection.<ref>Peter N. Moore, ''Archibald Simpson's Unpeaceable Kingdom: The Ordeal of Evangelicalism in the Colonial South'' (Lexington Books, 2018) p40</ref>  The city guard intervenes after a mob of protesters begins breaking windows at random buildings, but groups of citizens begin to make regular patrols of church graveyards<ref>Henry L. Fulton, ''Dr. John Moore, 1729–1802: A Life in Medicine, Travel, and Revolution'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) p54</ref>
* [[March 17]] &ndash; At London's Covent Garden, composer [[George Frideric Handel]] conducts the first performance of his new [[oratorio]], [[Solomon (Handel)|''Solomon'']].  More than 250 years later, an instrumental from ''Solomon'', "[[The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba]]"; will be featured in the 2012 London Summer Olympics opening ceremony.<ref>''All Music Guide to Classical Music: The Definitive Guide to Classical Music'', ed. by Chris Woodstra, et al. (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2013) p556</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 14]] &ndash; British Royal Navy ship [[HMS Namur (1697)|HMS ''Namur'']] is wrecked in a storm near [[Fort St. David]], India, with the loss of 520 lives.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lavery|first=Brian|title=The Ship of the Line: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850|year=1983|volume=1|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|isbn=0851772528}}</ref>
* [[April 27]] &ndash; The first official performance of Handel's ''[[Music for the Royal Fireworks]]'' in London finishes early, due to the outbreak of fire. The piece had been composed by Handel to commemorate the [[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)|Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle]], which ended the [[War of the Austrian Succession]] in 1748.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology313"/>
* [[May 19]] &ndash; King [[George II of Great Britain]] grants the [[Ohio Company]] {{convert|200000|acre}} (312½ square miles or 810&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) of land north of the [[Ohio River]], encompassing most of the modern U.S. state of [[Ohio]] and part of [[West Virginia]].  The grant is conditioned on the Company being able to attract 100 European families every year, for seven years, to move to the area occupied by Indian tribes, and to build a fort to protect them<ref>John R. Spears and A. H. Clark, ''A History of the Mississippi Valley: From Its Discovery to the End of Foreign Domination'' (A. S. Clark, 1903) p123</ref>
* [[June 4]] &ndash; A fire in [[Glasgow]] leaves 200 families homeless.<ref name=Fires>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p51</ref>
* [[June 6]] &ndash; The [[Conspiracy of the Slaves]], which was to have taken place on [[June 29]], is revealed in [[Malta]].

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 9]] &ndash; The British naval fort at [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] is founded on mainland [[Nova Scotia]] as a defense against the New France [[Fortress of Louisbourg]] on [[Cape Breton Island]], less than {{convert|100|mi}} away.
* [[August 2]] &ndash; Irish-born trader [[George Croghan]], unaware of the recent British grant of land in the Ohio River valley to the Ohio Company, purchases 200,000 acres of much of the same land from the [[Iroquois|Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy]], dealing directly with "the three most important Iroquois chiefs resident in that area, in return for an immense quantity of Indian goods." The deal takes place at the Iroquois capital of [[Onondaga (village)|Onondaga]], near present-day [[Syracuse, New York]].<ref>Nicholas B. Wainwright, ''George Croghan: Wilderness Diplomat'' (University of North Carolina Press, 1959) p28</ref>
* [[August 3]]
**The [[Battle of Ambur]] is fought in south India as the [[Second Carnatic War]] begins between the French-supported troops of [[Chanda Sahib]] of the [[Mughal Empire]] and the British-supported defenders of the [[Arcot State]], led by its 77-year old Nawab, [[Anwaruddin Khan]].  After marching outside of the walls of Arcot to confront Chanda Sahib and Joseph Dupleix's 4,000 troops, Anwaruddin Khan's numerically superior force is routed and he is killed in the battle.<ref>Spencer C. Tucker, ed., ''A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East'' (ABC-CLIO, 2009) p756</ref>
**French explorer [[Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville]], commissioned by New France to explore the Ohio Territory claimed by both France and Britain, buries the first of six engraved lead markers claiming the land for King [[Louis XV of France]].<ref>Terry A. Barnhart, ''American Antiquities: Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)</ref>  The first plate is buried on the banks of the [[Allegheny River]], near a rock with [[petroglyph]]s, in what is now [[Venango County, Pennsylvania]].
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Mary Musgrove|Mary Musgrove Bosomworth]], a woman of mixed British and Creek Indian ancestry, presents herself as Coosaponakeesa, Queen of the Creek Indians and marches with 200 Creek Indians into the town of [[Savannah, Georgia]].  During her confrontation with British colonial authorities, she and her husband Thomas Bosomworth demand payment of "nearly twenty-five thousand dollars" in compensation for property taken from the Creek Indians, before the British authorities determine that she doesn't have the authority to speak for the tribe.<ref>Sara Hines Martin, ''Georgia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) p15</ref>
* [[August 15]] &ndash; Four Russian sailors— Aleksei Inkov, Khrisanf Inkov, Stepan Sharapov and Fedor Verigin— are rescued after having been marooned on the [[Arctic Ocean]] island of [[Edgeøya]] for more than six years.  They are the only survivors of a crew of 14 whose [[Koch (boat)|koch]] had been blown off course in May 1743 and then broken up by ice.<ref name=Roberts>David Roberts, ''Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World'' (Simon and Schuster, 2005) p10</ref>  The four are returned home on September 28.
* [[August 19]] &ndash; At a ceremony in [[San Antonio, Texas]] (then a part of the New Spain province of [[Nuevo Santander]]), four [[Apache people|Apache]] chiefs and Spanish colonial officials and missionaries literally "bury the hatchet", placing weapons of war into a pit and covering it as a symbol that the Apaches and the Spaniards will fight no further war against each other.<ref>Joseph Luther, ''Camp Verde: Texas Frontier Defense'' (Arcadia Publishing, 2012)</ref>
* [[September 5]] &ndash; A delegation of 33 members of the [[Catawba people|Catawba]] Indian nation and 73 from the [[Cherokee people|Cherokee]] nation arrive in [[Charleston, South Carolina]], to discuss a peace treaty with South Carolina's provincial governor, [[James Glen]].<ref>Michelle LeMaster, ''Brothers Born of One Mother: British–Native American Relations in the Colonial Southeast'' (University of Virginia Press, 2012)</ref>
* [[September 12]] &ndash; The first recorded game of [[baseball]] is played, by [[Frederick, Prince of Wales]], at [[Kingston upon Thames]] in England.<ref>''[[Whitehall Evening Post]]'' 1749-09-19. {{cite news|title=Baseball: Prince of Wales played 'first' game in Surrey|date=2013-06-10|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22840004|work=[[BBC News]]|access-date=2019-06-26}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] &ndash; Grand Chief [[Jean-Baptiste Cope]], of the [[Miꞌkmaq]] Indian nation in Canada, declares war against the British Empire<ref>"The Covenant Chain", by [[Elsie Charles Basque]], in ''Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2014) p37</ref> after the building of the fort at [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]] and begins hostilities by taking 20 British hostages at [[Canso, Nova Scotia|Canso]].<ref name=McNab>"'Black with Canoes'.  Aboriginal Resistance and the Canoe", by David McNab, et al., in ''Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries'', ed. by George Raudzens (Brill Academic Publishers, 2003) p261</ref>
* [[September 28]] &ndash; Three Russian survivors of the shipwreck on [[Edgeøya]] return to their homeland after more than six years, as the ship ''Nikolai i Andrei'' brings them to the port of [[Arkhangelsk]].<ref name=Roberts/>  A fourth survivor, Fedor Veriginare, died of [[scurvy]] during the six-week voyage home.

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Edward Cornwallis]], the British [[Governor of Nova Scotia]], commands his militia and local citizens "to annoy, distress, take or destroy the Savage commonly called Micmac, wherever they are found" and promises a reward of ten [[Guinea (coin)|guineas]] (21 British [[shilling]]s) for every Mi'kmaq scalp brought in.<ref name=McNab/>
* [[October 4]] &ndash; What is later described as "the least examined yet most influential"<ref>Allan J. Kuethe and Kenneth J. Andrien, ''The Spanish Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century: War and the Bourbon Reforms, 1713–1796'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014) pp167-168</ref> of clerical reforms, by the Spanish Bourbon monarchs of the 18th century, begins when King [[Ferdinand VI of Spain]] approves a royal [[Real cédula|cédula]], removing control of the Roman Catholic [[parish]]es of Latin America from [[religious institute|religious orders]].  Henceforward, jurisdiction over parishioners in the archdioceses of Lima, Mexico City and Bogotá is with the [[secular clergy]].
* [[October 16]] &ndash; At [[Falmouth, Maine|Falmouth]], a part of the British [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]] that would later be the site of [[Portland, Maine]], a peace treaty is signed between representatives of Massachusetts Bay and 19 [[sachem|sagamores]] and [[tribal chief]]s of the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]] (encompassing the [[Penobscot]], [[Norridgewock|Kennebec]], [[Odanak]] and [[Wôlinak]] tribes of the [[Abenaki]] Indians), temporarily settling territorial disputes in [[Maine]] during [[King George's War]].<ref>Michael Dekker, ''French & Indian Wars in Maine'' (Arcadia Publishing, 2015) p95</ref>
* [[October 19]] &ndash; Two months after [[Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville|Pierre Céloron]] begins his inspection of the Ohio territory on behalf of France, [[Christopher Gist]] starts his survey of the lands along the right bank of the [[Ohio River]] on behalf of the British grant to the [[Ohio Company]].<ref>J. M. Toner, annotations to ''Journal of My Journey Over the Mountains, by George Washington, while Surveying for Lord Thomas Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, in the Northern Neck of Virginia, beyond the Blue Ridge, in 1747-8'' (Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892) p64.</ref>
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Battle of Penfui]] on [[Timor]]: A large [[Topasses|Topass]] army is defeated by a numerically inferior [[Dutch East India Company]].
* [[November 12]] &ndash; In response to the increasing number of starving people moving into [[Paris]] from rural parts of France, King Louis XV issues an ordinance that "all the beggars and vagabonds who shall be found either in the streets of Paris, or in churches or church doorways, or in the countryside around Paris, of whatever age or sex, shall be arrested and conducted into prisons, to stay there as long as shall be necessary."<ref>"Child Abduction Panic", in ''Outbreak!: The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior'', ed. by Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew (Anomalist Books, LLC, 2009) pp83-84</ref><ref>Christine Pevitt Algrant, ''Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France'' (Grove Press, 2003) p95</ref>
* [[November 24]] &ndash; The [[Province of South Carolina]] House of Assembly votes to free African-American slave Caesar Norman, and to grant him a lifetime pension of 100 British pounds per year, in return for Caesar's agreement to share the secret of his antidote for poisonous [[snake venom]].  Caesar then makes public his herbal cure of juice from ''[[Plantago major]]''  (the common plantain) and ''[[Marrubium vulgare]]'' (horehound), combined with "a leaf of good tobacco moistened with rum".<ref>Robert A. Voeks, ''The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative'' (University of Chicago Press, 2018) pp113-114</ref>
* [[December 1]] &ndash; Sultan [[Azim ud-Din I of Sulu|Azim ud-Din I]], recently forced to flee to [[Manila]] after being driven from the throne of [[Sultanate of Sulu]] elsewhere in the Philippine Islands, announces his intention to convert from [[Sunni Islam]] to become baptized as a Christian within the Roman Catholic Church. He changes his name to Fernando after being baptized.<ref>"The Baptism of Sultan Azim ud-Din of Sulu", by Eberhard Crailsheim, in ''Image - Object - Performance: Mediality and Communication in Cultural Contact Zones of Colonial Latin America and the Philippines'', ed. by Astrid Windus, et al. (Waxmann Verlag, 2013) pp97-98</ref>
* [[December 5]] &ndash; French composer [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]] premieres his new opera, ''[[Zoroastre]]'', at the [[Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)|Théâtre du Palais-Royal]] in Paris, but the first version is not a success.<ref>Cuthbert Girdlestone, ''Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work'' (Courier Corporation, 2014) p278</ref>  After five years of rewriting, Rameau will revive ''Zoroastre'' on January 19, 1756 and the opera will continue to be performed more than two centuries later.
* [[December 7]] &ndash; Father [[Junípero Serra]] begins his missionary work in the New World, 100 days after departing on a voyage from Spain and a day after his arrival at [[Veracruz (city)|Veracruz]] in Mexico.<ref>Gregory Orfalea, ''Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California'' (Simon and Schuster, 2014) p80</ref>  During the period from 1769 to 1782, Serra will be the founder of nine missions in the Province of [[Las Californias]], including the sites around which future California cities will be built, including Mission Basilica [[San Diego]] de Alcalá in 1769 and Mission [[San Francisco]] de Asís in 1776.
* [[December 30]] &ndash; Mir Sayyid Muhammad, a grandson of the Shah [[Suleiman of Persia]], overthrows [[Shahrokh Shah]] to become the Shah of Persia, and briefly restores the [[Safavid dynasty]] as [[Suleiman II of Persia|Suleiman II]]; his reign ends less than three months later, on March 20, when Kurdish tribesmen restore Shahrokh to the throne.<ref>Martin Sicker, ''The Islamic World in Decline: From the Treaty of Karlowitz to the Disintegration of the Ottoman Emxpire'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001) p65</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* A [[census]] is conducted in [[Finland]].
* The land reform of the [[Great Partition (Sweden)|Great Partition]] begins in Sweden, and continues until the 19th century.
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