In the year 1749, the first issue of Berlingske, Denmark’s oldest continually operating newspaper, is published (Jan 3), King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company land north of the Ohio River, with a condition: European families are to move there (May 19), the first recorded game of baseball is played in Surrey, England (Sep 12), King Louis XV of France issues a harsh ordinance against the increasing number of starving people moving into Paris (Nov 18), Indian tribes in North America continue losing their land - and all these fine people were born:
1749-0113 Friedrich Müller* poet/dramatist/ painter - Kreuznach, Holy Roman Empire (1825/76)
1749-0116 Vittorio Alfieri* Italian dramatist/poet/considered the “founder of Italian tragedy” - Asti, Kingdom of Sardinia (1803/54)
1749-0124 Charles James Fox* prominent British Whig statesman - London, England (1806/57)
1749-0215 Nils Avellan* physician/surgeon - Tammela, Sweden-Finland (1780/30)
1749-0323 Pierre-Simon Laplace* scholar - Beaumont-en-Auge, Kingdom of France (1827/77)
1749-0411 Adélaïde Labille-Guiard* miniaturist/portrait painter - Paris, France (1803/54)
1749-0423 Johan Stråhlman* priest/teacher/ linguist - Valkjärvi, Sweden-Finland (1840/90)
1749-0429 Adolf Fredrik Munck* noble/close friend of Swedish King Gustaf III - Mikkeli, Sweden-Finland (1831/82)
1749-0517 Edward Jenner* physician/scientist/ pioneer of the world’s first vaccine - smallpox vaccine - Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England (1823/73)
1749-0615 Georg Joseph Vogler* organist/composer/ teacher - Würzburg, Holy Roman Empire (1814/64)
1749-0828 Johann von Goethe* author/philosopher - Frankfurt-am-Main, Holy Roman Empire (1832/82)
1749-0925 Abraham Gottlob Werner* geologist/“the father of German geology” - Wehrau, Prussian Silesia (1817/67)
1749-1103 Daniel Rutherford* physician/chemist/botanist - Edinburgh, Scotland (1819/70)
1749-1117 Nicolas Appert* confectioner/ inventor of airtight food preservation - Châlons-sur-Marne, France (1841/91)
1749-1225 Samuel Jackson Pratt* poet/dramatist/novelist - St Ives, Huntingdonshire, England (1814/64)
Updated 30.5.2022-1
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