Events in the year 1749 in
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
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Incumbents
*Monarch:
Ferdinand VI
, house = Bourbon-Anjou
, father = Philip V of Spain
, mother = Maria Luisa of Savoy
, birth_date = 23 September 1713
, birth_place = Royal Alcazar of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
, death_date =
, death_place = Villavic ...
*Secretary of State:
Zenón de Somodevilla, 1st Marqués de la Ensenada
Events
*July 30 -
Great Gypsy Round-up
The Great Gypsy Round-up ( es, Gran Redada de Gitanos), also known as the general imprisonment of the Gypsies (''prisión general de gitanos''), was a raid authorized and organized by the Spanish Monarchy that led to the arrest of most Romani peopl ...
Births
*September 21 -
Mariano Álvarez de Castro (d.
1810
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales.
* January 4 – Australian seal hunter Frederick Hasselborough discovers Campbell Island, in the Subantarctic.
* Jan ...
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References
{{Year in Europe, 1749