| January 24 | Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire |
| February 15 | St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue |
| February 21 | John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for "Essay on Women" |
| April 3 | Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king |
| May 5 | Smolny-institution forms in St. Petersburg for noble girls |
| July 23 | James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation |
| October 25 | John Adams marries Abigail Smith (marriage lasts 54 years) |
| November 16 | Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac |
| November 26 | France bans Jesuit enorde |
