| 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. |
| 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. |
| 1760 | England [literature and language] | The English writer Laurence Sterne publishes the first two volumes of his novel The Life and Adventure of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Volumes three and four appear in 1761, volumes five and six in 1762, volumes seven and eight in 1765, and volume nine in 1767. He also publishes his first volume of sermons under the title The Sermons of Mr Yorick (the name of the parson in his novel). |
| 1760 | England [art] | English artist Thomas Gainsborough paints Portrait of Mrs Philip Thicknesse. |
| 1760–1770 | North America [statistics and demography] | The estimated population of the North American colonies is 1,593,625 including 325,806 black slaves. |
| 23 June 1760 | Prussia, Silesia, Germany, Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire [Seven Years War (1754–62)] | The Prussian army under General Fouqué at Landshut, Silesia, guarding the passes into Silesia, suffers a crushing defeat at the hands of the Austrians under Baron Gideon Ernst von Laudon. |
| 8 September 1760 | UK, France, North America [political events] | British troops under General Jeffrey Amherst take the town of Montreal from the French, and gain control of Canada. |
| 9 September 1760 | Russia, Sweden, Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Saxony [Seven Years War (1754–62)] | Russian and Swedish troops ravage the Prussian province of Pomerania while imperial troops occupy the German electorate of Saxony and town of Halle. |
| 9 October - 13 October 1760 | Russia, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire [political events] | The Russians burn the Prussian capital, Berlin, which they and imperial troops occupy, until King Frederick II the Great of Prussia's advance from Silesia. However, Frederick is forced to allow them to retreat unmolested. |
| 17 October 1760 | Britain [political events] | Following the death of King George II of Britain, he is succeeded by his grandson George III, aged 22. |
| 3 November 1760 | Prussia, Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire, Saxony, Germany [Seven Years War (1754–62)] | King Frederick II the Great of Prussia defeats the Austrian troops under their commander in chief Leopold, Graf von Daun, at Torgau, Saxony. The Austrians evacuate the electorate of Saxony except for the capital Dresden. |
