1749
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Art and culture
- Denis Diderot is arrested for having written "Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient"
- The archaeological remains of Stabiae are discovered in 1749 by Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre
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Literature
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Fiction
- The second installment of Fanny Hill is published
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
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Non-fiction
- First volume of Georges Buffon's Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière published
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Visual art
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Music
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Architecture
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Births
- March 9 – Honore Mirabeau, French politician (d. 1791)
- August 28 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician (d. 1832)
- September 3 – Princesse de Lamballe, French princess, friend of Marie Antoinette (murdered during the French Revolution) (b. 1749)
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Deaths
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