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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1749. 1749 (MDCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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  • 1740s BC (redirect from 1749 BC)
    The 1740s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1749 BC to December 31, 1740 BC. 1749 BC–Samsu-iluna succeeds Hammurabi as king of Babylon. However...
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    Scalping (redirect from Scalp Act of 1749)
    Acadia, French colonists offered payments to Indians for British scalps. In 1749, British governor Edward Cornwallis created an extirpation proclamation,...
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    Events from the year 1749 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George II Governor General of New France: Roland-Michel Barrin...
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    1740s (redirect from 1740-1749)
    (pronounced "seventeen-forties") decade ran from January 1, 1740, to December 31, 1749. Many events during this decade sparked an impetus for the Age of Reason...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1749. February – The second part of John Cleland's erotic novel Fanny Hill (Memoirs...
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  • Colonel Nicholas Bayly (1747 – 7 June 1812) was a British soldier and Member of Parliament. Bayly was the third son of Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet...
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  • The year 1749 in science and technology involved some significant events. Pierre Bouguer publishes La figure de la terre in Paris, describing some of the...
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  • Hospital in London at which the Foundling Hospital Anthem is premiered. 1749–1750 – Bach revises his The Art of Fugue BWV 1080, but the project will be...
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    Hylton. It was sold by a private Act of Parliament (23 Geo. 2. c. 21) in 1749. The new owner was to be a Mr. Wogan who returned from the East Indies to...
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