What happened 1749 AD

In January 1749, Bach's daughter Elisabeth Juliane Friederica married his pupil Johann Christoph Altnickol. Bach's health was, however, declining.

He received a surveyor's license the following year from the College of William & Mary; Fairfax appointed him surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia, and he thus familiarized himself with the frontier region, resigning from the job in 1750.

On 2 June, Heinrich von Brühl wrote to one of the Leipzig burgomasters to request that his music director, Johann Gottlob Harrer, fill the Thomaskantor and Director musics posts "upon the eventual ... decease of Mr. Bach".

Yolande de Polastron was a favorite of Marie Antoinette at Versailles and was born in Paris.

Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace was born in Beaumount-en-Auge, Normandy, France in 1749.

Vittorio Alfieri, an Italian count, dramatist and poet, was born in Asti, Italy in the 17th century.

Marie Thérse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, was born in Palazzo Carignano.