Editing 1749 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 14]] &ndash; British Royal Navy ship [[HMS Namur (1697)|HMS ''Namur'']] is wrecked in a storm near [[Fort St. David]], India, with the loss of 520 lives.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lavery|first=Brian|title=The Ship of the Line: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850|year=1983|volume=1|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|isbn=0851772528}}</ref>
* [[April 27]] &ndash; The first official performance of Handel's ''[[Music for the Royal Fireworks]]'' in London finishes early, due to the outbreak of fire. The piece had been composed by Handel to commemorate the [[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)|Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle]], which ended the [[War of the Austrian Succession]] in 1748.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology313"/>
* [[May 19]] &ndash; King [[George II of Great Britain]] grants the [[Ohio Company]] {{convert|200000|acre}} (312½ square miles or 810&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) of land north of the [[Ohio River]], encompassing most of the modern U.S. state of [[Ohio]] and part of [[West Virginia]].  The grant is conditioned on the Company being able to attract 100 European families every year, for seven years, to move to the area occupied by Indian tribes, and to build a fort to protect them<ref>John R. Spears and A. H. Clark, ''A History of the Mississippi Valley: From Its Discovery to the End of Foreign Domination'' (A. S. Clark, 1903) p123</ref>
* [[June 4]] &ndash; A fire in [[Glasgow]] leaves 200 families homeless.<ref name=Fires>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p51</ref>
* [[June 6]] &ndash; The [[Conspiracy of the Slaves]], which was to have taken place on [[June 29]], is revealed in [[Malta]].