- Feb 20 French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns
- Apr 4 Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor
Event of Interest
Jun 30 British Commissioners of Longitude grant self-taught clockmaker John Harrison £500 after the successful trial of his first longitude clock [1]
- Jul 18 Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians
- Jul 31 Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court
- Aug 18 First public admittance to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris
- Sep 17 Georg-August University opens in Göttingen
- Sep 20 Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony
- Oct 7 A cyclone causes 40 foot waves that are believed to have killed 300,000 in Calcutta, India
- Oct 11 Earthquake reported to have killed 300,000 and destroyed half of Calcutta in India. Now thought to have been an exaggerated account of a hurricane which claimed 3,000 of the city's estimated 20,000 residents. [1]
- Nov 4 The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples is inaugurated