Editing 1749 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 3]]
** [[Benning Wentworth]] issues the first of the [[New Hampshire Grants]], leading to the establishment of [[Vermont]].
** The first issue of ''[[Berlingske]]'', [[Denmark]]'s oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
* [[January 21]] &ndash; The [[Teatro Filarmonico]], the main opera theater in Verona, Italy, is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
* [[February]] &ndash; The second part of [[John Cleland]]'s [[Erotic literature|erotic novel]] ''[[Fanny Hill]]'' (''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'') is published in London. The author is released from [[debtors' prison]] in March.
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Henry Fielding]]'s [[comic novel]] ''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]'' is published in London.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology313">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/313|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/313 313]}}</ref> Also this year, Fielding becomes [[magistrate]] at [[Bow Street]], and first enlists the help of the [[Bow Street Runners]], an early police force (eight men at first).<ref name=CBH219220>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=219–220|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash; A "corpse riot" breaks out in [[Glasgow]] after a body disappears from a churchyard in the [[Gorbals]] district.  Suspicion falls on anatomy students at the Glasgow Infirmary "had raised a dead body from the grave and carried it to the college" for dissection.<ref>Peter N. Moore, ''Archibald Simpson's Unpeaceable Kingdom: The Ordeal of Evangelicalism in the Colonial South'' (Lexington Books, 2018) p40</ref>  The city guard intervenes after a mob of protesters begins breaking windows at random buildings, but groups of citizens begin to make regular patrols of church graveyards<ref>Henry L. Fulton, ''Dr. John Moore, 1729–1802: A Life in Medicine, Travel, and Revolution'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) p54</ref>
* [[March 17]] &ndash; At London's Covent Garden, composer [[George Frideric Handel]] conducts the first performance of his new [[oratorio]], [[Solomon (Handel)|''Solomon'']].  More than 250 years later, an instrumental from ''Solomon'', "[[The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba]]"; will be featured in the 2012 London Summer Olympics opening ceremony.<ref>''All Music Guide to Classical Music: The Definitive Guide to Classical Music'', ed. by Chris Woodstra, et al. (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2013) p556</ref>