- Mar 17 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
- Apr 5 British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
- May 5 Russia & Prussia sign Treaty of Saint Petersburg ending the Seven Years War
- May 22 Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg, reaffirming the status quo that existed before the Seven Years War
- Jun 15 Austria uses 1st paper currency
- Jun 28 1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston)
Event of Interest
Jun 28 Russian Tsarina Catherine II seizes power, declaring herself sovereign ruler of Russia
Catherine the Great
Event of Interest
Jul 10 Louis-François Roubiliac's monument to George Frideric Handel is unveiled at Westminster Abbey in London
George Frideric Handel
- Jul 17 Catherine II becomes tsarina of Russia following the murder of Peter III
- Aug 14 English fleet occupies Havana
- Aug 22 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport, Rhode Island, Mercury
- Sep 15 Battle of Signal Hill, the last battle of the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War.
- Oct 5 Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" by Christoph Willibald Gluck is first produced in Vienna in front of Empress Maria Theresa.
- Oct 6 British troops occupy Manila, Philippines
- Nov 3 Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris
- Nov 3 Spain acquires Louisiana
- Dec 9 British parliament accepts Treaty of Paris