April 27 » Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register.
May 24 » The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
June 9 » Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
June 14 » The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War ends. It had lasted for five days and resulted in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
June 15 » The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
November 25 » A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
Day of death January 23, 1749
The temperature on January 23, 1749 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen donder. Special wheather fenomena: bliksem. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
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