- 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)
Historic Event
Jun 28 Russian Tsarina Catherine II seizes power, declaring herself sovereign ruler of Russia
Music History
Jul 10 Louis-François Roubiliac's monument to George Frideric Handel is unveiled at Westminster Abbey in London
- 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