Editing 1749 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Edward Cornwallis]], the British [[Governor of Nova Scotia]], commands his militia and local citizens "to annoy, distress, take or destroy the Savage commonly called Micmac, wherever they are found" and promises a reward of ten [[Guinea (coin)|guineas]] (21 British [[shilling]]s) for every Mi'kmaq scalp brought in.<ref name=McNab/>
* [[October 4]] &ndash; What is later described as "the least examined yet most influential"<ref>Allan J. Kuethe and Kenneth J. Andrien, ''The Spanish Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century: War and the Bourbon Reforms, 1713–1796'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014) pp167-168</ref> of clerical reforms, by the Spanish Bourbon monarchs of the 18th century, begins when King [[Ferdinand VI of Spain]] approves a royal [[Real cédula|cédula]], removing control of the Roman Catholic [[parish]]es of Latin America from [[religious institute|religious orders]].  Henceforward, jurisdiction over parishioners in the archdioceses of Lima, Mexico City and Bogotá is with the [[secular clergy]].
* [[October 16]] &ndash; At [[Falmouth, Maine|Falmouth]], a part of the British [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]] that would later be the site of [[Portland, Maine]], a peace treaty is signed between representatives of Massachusetts Bay and 19 [[sachem|sagamores]] and [[tribal chief]]s of the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]] (encompassing the [[Penobscot]], [[Norridgewock|Kennebec]], [[Odanak]] and [[Wôlinak]] tribes of the [[Abenaki]] Indians), temporarily settling territorial disputes in [[Maine]] during [[King George's War]].<ref>Michael Dekker, ''French & Indian Wars in Maine'' (Arcadia Publishing, 2015) p95</ref>
* [[October 19]] &ndash; Two months after [[Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville|Pierre Céloron]] begins his inspection of the Ohio territory on behalf of France, [[Christopher Gist]] starts his survey of the lands along the right bank of the [[Ohio River]] on behalf of the British grant to the [[Ohio Company]].<ref>J. M. Toner, annotations to ''Journal of My Journey Over the Mountains, by George Washington, while Surveying for Lord Thomas Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, in the Northern Neck of Virginia, beyond the Blue Ridge, in 1747-8'' (Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892) p64.</ref>
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Battle of Penfui]] on [[Timor]]: A large [[Topasses|Topass]] army is defeated by a numerically inferior [[Dutch East India Company]].
* [[November 12]] &ndash; In response to the increasing number of starving people moving into [[Paris]] from rural parts of France, King Louis XV issues an ordinance that "all the beggars and vagabonds who shall be found either in the streets of Paris, or in churches or church doorways, or in the countryside around Paris, of whatever age or sex, shall be arrested and conducted into prisons, to stay there as long as shall be necessary."<ref>"Child Abduction Panic", in ''Outbreak!: The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior'', ed. by Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew (Anomalist Books, LLC, 2009) pp83-84</ref><ref>Christine Pevitt Algrant, ''Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France'' (Grove Press, 2003) p95</ref>
* [[November 24]] &ndash; The [[Province of South Carolina]] House of Assembly votes to free African-American slave Caesar Norman, and to grant him a lifetime pension of 100 British pounds per year, in return for Caesar's agreement to share the secret of his antidote for poisonous [[snake venom]].  Caesar then makes public his herbal cure of juice from ''[[Plantago major]]''  (the common plantain) and ''[[Marrubium vulgare]]'' (horehound), combined with "a leaf of good tobacco moistened with rum".<ref>Robert A. Voeks, ''The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative'' (University of Chicago Press, 2018) pp113-114</ref>
* [[December 1]] &ndash; Sultan [[Azim ud-Din I of Sulu|Azim ud-Din I]], recently forced to flee to [[Manila]] after being driven from the throne of [[Sultanate of Sulu]] elsewhere in the Philippine Islands, announces his intention to convert from [[Sunni Islam]] to become baptized as a Christian within the Roman Catholic Church. He changes his name to Fernando after being baptized.<ref>"The Baptism of Sultan Azim ud-Din of Sulu", by Eberhard Crailsheim, in ''Image - Object - Performance: Mediality and Communication in Cultural Contact Zones of Colonial Latin America and the Philippines'', ed. by Astrid Windus, et al. (Waxmann Verlag, 2013) pp97-98</ref>
* [[December 5]] &ndash; French composer [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]] premieres his new opera, ''[[Zoroastre]]'', at the [[Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)|Théâtre du Palais-Royal]] in Paris, but the first version is not a success.<ref>Cuthbert Girdlestone, ''Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work'' (Courier Corporation, 2014) p278</ref>  After five years of rewriting, Rameau will revive ''Zoroastre'' on January 19, 1756 and the opera will continue to be performed more than two centuries later.
* [[December 7]] &ndash; Father [[Junípero Serra]] begins his missionary work in the New World, 100 days after departing on a voyage from Spain and a day after his arrival at [[Veracruz (city)|Veracruz]] in Mexico.<ref>Gregory Orfalea, ''Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California'' (Simon and Schuster, 2014) p80</ref>  During the period from 1769 to 1782, Serra will be the founder of nine missions in the Province of [[Las Californias]], including the sites around which future California cities will be built, including Mission Basilica [[San Diego]] de Alcalá in 1769 and Mission [[San Francisco]] de Asís in 1776.
* [[December 30]] &ndash; Mir Sayyid Muhammad, a grandson of the Shah [[Suleiman of Persia]], overthrows [[Shahrokh Shah]] to become the Shah of Persia, and briefly restores the [[Safavid dynasty]] as [[Suleiman II of Persia|Suleiman II]]; his reign ends less than three months later, on March 20, when Kurdish tribesmen restore Shahrokh to the throne.<ref>Martin Sicker, ''The Islamic World in Decline: From the Treaty of Karlowitz to the Disintegration of the Ottoman Emxpire'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001) p65</ref>