Page 2: Historical Events In 1749

Jul 20   Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds" in the year 1749.   

Jul 21   Pieter Steyn becomes pension advisor of Holland on this day in history.   

Aug 05   In the year 1749 thomas Lynch, signer (Declaration of Independence)   

Aug 13   J E Schlegel, writer, dies on this day in history.   

Aug 26   Johann Ernst Rembt, composer in the year 1749.   

Aug 28   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust) in the year 1749.   

Aug 31   Radistschew, writer on this day in history.   

Oct 04   On this day in history jean-Louis Duport, composer   

Oct 26   Georgia Colony reverses itself & rules slavery is legal in the year 1749.   

Oct 26   Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, French composer/organist, dies at 72 in the year 1749.   

Nov 02   English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post on this day in history.   

Nov 23   In the year 1749 edward Rutledge, (Gov-SC)/attorney/signer (Decl of Independence)   

Nov 27   In the year 1749 balthasar Schmid, composer, dies at 44   

Dec 10   Gabrielle Chôtelet, [La belle Emilie], writer (Voltaire), dies at 42 on this day in history.   

Dec 17   In the year 1749 domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto)   

Dec 19   Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76 in the year 1749.   

Dec 20   In the year 1749 pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies   

Dec 23   Johann Lukas Schubaur, composer on this day in history.   

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Jan 12   Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat was born on this day in history.   

Jan 13   On this day in history birth of friedrich Müller, painter and dramatist (d. 1825)   

Jan 16   Vittoria A Alfieri, Italian count/poet (Maria Stuarda) was born in the year 1749.   

Jan 19   Isaiah Thomas, US, printer/editor/publisher/historian was born in the year 1749.   

Jan 29   In the year 1749 birth of king Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)   

Feb 22   In the year 1749 birth of johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist/1st biographer of Bach   

Mar 09   Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (d. 1791) was born in the year 1749.   

Mar 10   Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838) was born on this day in history.   

Feb 07   Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

Feb 08   Jan van Huysum, Dutch still life painter, dies at 66 in the year 1749.   

May 24   In the year 1749 death of graf Valentin Potocki, Polish nobleman   

Jun 13   On this day in history jan F van Bloemen, [Orizonte], Flemish painter, dies at 87   

Jun 16   On this day in history death of johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)   

Jun 18   Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674) died on this day in history.   

Jul 03   William Jones, Welsh mathematician (b. 1675) died in the year 1749.   

Jul 12   On this day in history death of charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of New France