| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. |
| 1743–1760 | North America [town planning] | Paving city streets in the North American colonies becomes common, making the colonial streets drier and smoother than those in Britain. |
| c. 1750 | UK [architecture] | The English landscape gardener Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown lays out Warwick Castle Gardens in Warwickshire, England. |
| 1750 | Italy [art] | Italian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo completes his frescoes Antony and Cleopatra in the Labia Palace in Venice, Italy. |
| 1750 | world, Europe [statistics and demography] | The population of the world is around 750 million. In Europe it is 140 million. |
| 1750 | France [thought and scholarship] | Swiss-born French thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau publishes Discours sur les lettres et les sciences/Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, which establishes his reputation. |
| 1750 | England [physics] | English physicist John Michell describes magnetic induction and the inverse-square law for magnetic attraction in A Treatise on Artificial Magnets. |
| 1750 | Scandinavia, Sweden [physics] | The Scandinavian physicist Martin Stromer modifies the temperature scale devised by his mentor, the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius. He inverts it, setting freezing point as 0°C and boiling point as 100°C, creating the Celsius scale still used today. |
| c. 1750 | UK, Europe [clothing and fashion] | As the grand tour of Europe grows in popularity, the influence of European fashions in clothes and furnishings is seen in Britain. Men increasingly wear gold buttons and buckles, and ruffles and embroidered waistcoats are also popular. |
| c. 1750 | UK [horse-racing] | The Jockey Club is founded in England. |
| 1750–1777 | Portugal [law and government] | Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, the Marquis of Pombal, virtual ruler of Portugal during the reign of José I, carries out a series of extensive reforms aimed at breaking the power of the nobility and revitalizing Portugal's finances, industry, agriculture, and education system. |
| c. 1750 | France [maths] | The French mathematician Jean d'Alembert works with other mathematicians, including Leonhard Euler, Joseph, comte de Lagrange, and Pierre, marquis de Laplace, on the ‘three-body problem’, applying calculus to problems of celestial mechanics. |
| 28 July 1750 | Germany [births and deaths] | Johann Sebastian Bach, leading German composer of the baroque period, dies in Leipzig (now Germany) (65). |
| 31 July 1750 | Portugal [political events] | Joseph I succeeds as king of Portugal on the death of John V. |
