- Mar 28 Parliament sends an address to the king requesting that he demand redress from Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
Serse
Apr 15 "Serse", an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel premieres at the King's Theatre in Haymarket, London
Aldersgate Day
May 24 John Wesley is converted, launching the Methodist movement; celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day
- May 25 A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners
- May 27 Turkish troops occupy Orsova and Ochakov in eastern Europe
- Jul 20 North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan
France Offers to Mediate
Aug 2 France offers Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI mediation in his war against Turkey
A Treatise of Human Nature
Sep 26 Scottish philosopher David Hume enters into a contract to publish the first two volumes of his seminal work "A Treatise of Human Nature" with John Noon in London
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists