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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    The Battle of Ambur (3 August 1749) was the first major battle of the Second Carnatic War. The battle was initiated by Muzaffar Jung and supported by Joseph...
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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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    Françoise Marie de Bourbon (Légitimée de France; 4 May 1677 – 1 February 1749) was the youngest illegitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his...
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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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    to be the Royal yacht and resumed her classification as a Sixth Rate. In 1749 a new Royal Caroline was built to replace her. She reverted to being a naval...
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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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