1749 in Great Britain

none February 2019 November 2020 1749 yes Events from the year 1749 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George II Prime Minister – Henry Pelham (Whig)History of Henry Pelham - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/henry-pelham www.gov.uk 19 June 2023 en Events February – Admiralty revises the command structure of the Royal Navy and issues new Fighting InstructionsPalmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 219–220 0-7126-5616-2 and (from 25 December) Articles of War. 1 February – two princes of Anamaboe who have been taken prisoners and made slaves are presented to King George II of Great Britain. The British government has paid their ransoms and they are placed in the care of the Earl of Halifax.http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/feb/1.htm February 1st Chambers' Book of Days 2007-12-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20071217192931/http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/feb/1.htm 2007-12-17 17 March – George Frideric Handel's oratorio Solomon is first performed, at the Covent Garden Theatre in London,Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/313 registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 313 including the instrumental passage "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba". 12 April – the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, designed by James Gibbs, is opened as an academic library.149 Ivor Guest Ivor Forbes Guest Dr. John Radcliffe and His Trust London The Radcliffe Trust 1991 0-9502482-1-5 14 April – second-rate HMS Namur is wrecked in a storm near Fort St. David, India, with the loss of 520 lives.Lavery Brian The Ship of the Line: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850 1983 1 Conway Maritime Press 0851772528 27 April – the first official performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks finishes early due to the outbreak of fire. The piece was composed by Handel for a display in London's Green Park to commemorate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle which ended the War of the Austrian Succession in 1748. 9 July – British settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded. 12 September – the first recorded game of baseball is played, by Frederick, Prince of Wales, at Kingston upon Thames.Whitehall Evening Post 1749-09-19. Baseball: Prince of Wales played 'first' game in Surrey 2013-06-10 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22840004 BBC News 2019-06-26 Undated – Henry Fielding, newly appointed as a magistrate at Bow Street in London first enlists the help of the "Bow Street Runners", an early police force. Publications The second part of John Cleland's erotic novel Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) is published in February. The author is released from debtor's prison in March. The Church of England asks the Secretary of State to "stop the progress of this vile Book, which is an open insult upon Religion and good manners." In November, Cleland is arrested and charged with "corrupting the King's subjects." Henry Fielding's picaresque comic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is published on 28 February. Sarah Fielding's novel The Governess, or The Little Female Academy, generally seen as the first school story.Foster Shirley Simons Judy What Katy read: feminist re-readings of "classic" stories for girls 195 University of Iowa Press 1995 0-87745-493-0 registration https://archive.org/details/whatkatyreadfemi00fost/page/195 John Jones's pro-Dissenter book Free and Candid Disquisitions, which sparks debate regarding reforming the Church of England and the 1662 prayer book.Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature: New and Enlarged Edition https://books.google.com/books?id=_97QAAAAMAAJ II 1926 327 Samuel Halkett Samuel Halkett John Laing (bibliographer) John Laing James Kennedy W. A. Smith A. F. Johnson Edinburgh Oliver and Boyd Google Books The anonymous moralising pamphlet Satan's Harvest Home: or the Present State of Whorecraft, Adultery, Fornication, Procuring, Pimping, Sodomy....Satan's Harvest Home: or the Present State of Whorecraft ... collected from the memoirs of an intimate comrade of the Hon. Jack S**n**r ... To which is added, The Petit Maitre, a poem by a Lady of Distinction https://books.google.com/books?id=UTFfAAAAcAAJ books.google.com 2 December 2023 Editor London 5 August 2023 Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke's Idea of a Patriot King. Births 24 January – Charles James Fox, politician (died 1806) 29 January – William Sharp, engraver (died 1824) 17 May – Edward Jenner, physician (died 1823) Deaths 18 June – Ambrose Philips, poet (born 1675) 3 July – William Jones, mathematician (born 1675) 14 September – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, soldier and politician (born 1675) See also 1749 in Wales References 1749 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1749 by country Category:1749 in Europe Category:1740s in Great Britain