General
Population: 824 Million*
- Business: Industrial revolution begins
- Entertainment: Writers include Goldoni (comedy), Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson The RamblerKing Frederick the Great (philosophy)
Dictionary of historical dated edited by Benedictine monks of St. Maur
Music includes: Pergolesi (opera),
Johann Breitkopf the Leipzig music publisher uses moveable type for printing music
- Fashion: ENd of Baroque and Roccoco eras as Neoclassicism begins
- Religion: Baal Shem founds Jewish sect of Chassidim in Carpathian mountain region
- Science: Astronomer Nicolas de Lacaille leads expedition to Cape of Good Hope to determine solar and lunar parallax
Johann Tobias Mayer creates map of the moon
William Watson analyzes platinum
Spontaneous generation revisited on a microscopic level, but rejected 1765
- Technology: James Young of Scotland – refines oil from coal and shale – then to paraffin
- Deaths: JS Bach, Sculptor Egid Quirin Asam, John V of Portugal, Dramatist Aaron Hill
Gaol fever (Typhus) kills judges sheriff aldermen and spectators,
Africa
- West Africa: Asante kingdom at most powerful trading in gold and slaves
Americas
- Canada: Anglo-French discussions on boundary between Canada and Nova Scotia
- South America: Spanish-Portuguese treaty on S. America,
Asia
- India: Robert Clive leads British Conquest of South India
French soldier in Mysore (India) plucks diamond eye from statue of Brama and sells it to London shipmaster
- Tibet: Chinese capture Lhasa and take over Tibet
Europe
- General: Neoclassicism spreads over Europe as reaction against baroque and rococo
Europe reaches 140 million
- German States: François de Cuvilles the dwarf and court architect to Elector of Bavaria builds Residenztheater in Munich
- Great Britain: Lancelot Brown designs gardens of Warwick Castle
Hambledon Cricket Club of Hampshire England founded
Parliament passes iron act
English Jockey Club founded in London
First Westminster Bridge in London finished
English man executed for stealing a hat
- Portugal: Death of John V – succeeded by Jose I
Sebastian de Carvalho appointed foreign secretary
- Spain: Treaties of Madrid and San Ildefonso update the treaty of Tordesillas
Middle East
- Persia: Karim Khan begins 29 year reign of south Persia