General
Population: 851 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Giuseppe Parini (poetry), Boswell meets Johnson for first time (literature), Voltaire (tolerance),
First issue of "Almanach de Gotha"
Art includes Francesco Fuardi "Election of the Doge of Venice",
- Science: J.G. Kolreuter does fertilization experiments on plants by animal pollinators
- Technology: Spinning machines revolutionize weaving
- Deaths: Dramatist Pierre de Marivaux, Novelist Antoine François Prevost, King Augustus III of Poland
Earliest use of ponies in pits
Americas
- General: End of French and Indian War (Anglo-French War, Seven Years' War)
- Brazil: Rio becomes capital
- Canada: Britain wins control of all Canada
Ottawa Indians under Chief Pontiac rise against British
- Cuba: British give Cuba to Spain
Asia
- India: Britain becomes dominant power in India as a result of the Treaty of Paris
- Mysore: Indian adventurer Hyder Ali conquers Kanara
- Philippines: British gives Philippines to Spain
Europe
- General: End of Seven Years' War in Europe – Peace of Paris
- France: La Madeleine in Paris founded
In Gevaudan – wereworf kills 100 over three years
- German States: Frederick the Great establishes village schools in Prussia
Treaty of Hubertsburg among Prussia, Saxony, and Austria ends Seven Year's War - Prussia ends up as leading power
- Great Britain: "St. James' Chronicle" published in London
Concern rises about war debts in Americas
End of Seven Years' War leaves Britain as undisputed leader of the world
- Italian States: Start excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Poland: Death of King Augustus III - Catherine the Great puts Stanislaus Poniatowski into power