- Mar 28 Parliament sends an address to the king requesting that he demand redress from Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
- Apr 18 Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid
- May 9 Britain sends fleet to the Mediterranean Sea & West Indies
Event of Interest
May 24 John Wesley is converted, launching the Methodist movement; celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day
- May 25 A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
- May 27 Turkish troops occupy Orsova and Ochakov in eastern Europe
- Jul 20 North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan
Event of Interest
Aug 2 France offers Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI mediation in his war against Turkey
Historic Publication
Sep 26 Scottish philosopher David Hume enters into a contract to publish the first two volumes of his seminal work "A Treatise of Human Nature" with John Noon in London
