| February 10 | Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England |
| February 12 | John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs |
| February 15 | Austria, Prussia and Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg |
| April 30 | London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower |
| May 16 | James Boswell's 1st meeting with Samuel Johnson |
| May 16 | Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London |
| October 7 | George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement |
| November 15 | Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland |
| November 16 | English journalist John Wilkes injured at duel |
| December 2 | Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing U.S. synagogue) |
