1749

1749 (MDCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1749th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 749th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1749, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1749 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1749 MDCCXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2502
Armenian calendar	1198 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	6499
Balinese saka calendar	1670–1671
Bengali calendar	1156
Berber calendar	2699
British Regnal year	22 Geo. 2 – 23 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2293
Burmese calendar	1111
Byzantine calendar	7257–7258
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4445 or 4385     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4446 or 4386
Coptic calendar	1465–1466
Discordian calendar	2915
Ethiopian calendar	1741–1742
Hebrew calendar	5509–5510
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1805–1806
- Shaka Samvat	1670–1671
- Kali Yuga	4849–4850
Holocene calendar	11749
Igbo calendar	749–750
Iranian calendar	1127–1128
Islamic calendar	1162–1163
Japanese calendar	Kan'en 2 (寛延２年)
Javanese calendar	1673–1674
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4082
Minguo calendar	163 before ROC 民前163年
Nanakshahi calendar	281
Thai solar calendar	2291–2292
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dragon) 1875 or 1494 or 722     — to — ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 1876 or 1495 or 723

Events

• While in debtor's prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). Released from prison, the book was published in London. Immediately, the Church of England asked the British Secretary of State to "stop the progress of this vile Book, which is an open insult upon Religion and good manners." As a result, Cleland was arrested and charged with "corrupting the King's subjects."
• 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 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.

Books

• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding