| February 13 | Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (American Magazine) |
| February 16 | Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, 2nd U.S. magazine begins publishing |
| March 4 | English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena |
| March 9 | English fleet under Admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena |
| April 10 | Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz |
| April 13 | Dutch people protest bad quality of bread |
| April 13 | Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich |
| May 8 | France and Bavaria sign Covenant of Nymphenburg |
| May 28 | Spain and Bavaria sign treaty |
| June 4 | Prussia goes to the Covenant of Nymphenburg |
| June 15 | Captain Bering leaves Petropavlovsk, sailing to America |
| June 30 | Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms |
| July 28 | Captain Bering discovers Mount St. Elias, Alaska |
| August 15 | French troops attack the Rhine |
| August 20 | Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering |
| September 11 | Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament |
| September 14 | George Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days |
| September 16 | George Frederick Handel's "The Messiah," premieres in Dublin |
| November 26 | French and Beiers army occupies Prague |
| December 5 | Russian princess Elisabeth Petrovna grabs powers |
| December 7 | Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia |
| December 25 | Astronomer Anders Celcius introduces Centigrade temperature scale |
| December 27 | Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia |
