Moscow University Founded
Jan 25 Moscow University is established by Elizabeth of Russia and founded by Mikhail Lomonosov on Tatiana Day
- Feb 13 Treaty of Giyanti / Gianti Java dividing the once powerful Javanese Sultanate of Mataram signed by the Dutch and Javanese princes Mangkubumi and Pakubuwono
- Mar 12 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
- Apr 2 Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India
A Dictionary of the English Language
Apr 15 Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" is published in London
- Apr 26 1st Russian university opens in Moscow
Louis Mandrin Sentenced
May 24 Smuggler Louis Mandrin considered the French Robin Hood is sentenced to be broken on the wheel, a medieval form of torture and execution that breaks the bones of the subject
- Jun 16 British capture strategic Fort Beauséjour, eastern Canada, expelling the Acadians and renaming it Fort Cumberland
James Cook Joins the Navy
Jun 17 Future explorer James Cook joins the Royal Navy as an able-bodied seaman at Wapping, East London [1]
- Jun 29 515 prominent Filipinos baptized as Catholic
- Jun 29 German medieval heroic poem "Nibelungenlied" (the Song of the Nibelungs) rediscovered in Hohenems Castle Library in Vorarlberg, Austria by Jacob Hermann Oreit
- Jun 30 Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
- Jul 9 Battle of Fort Duquesne (modern Pittsburgh): French troops repel a British advance
- Jul 9 British General Edward Braddock mortally wounded during Battle of Fort Duquesne during French and Indian War
- Jul 15 French ambassador recalled from London
John Adams Graduates
Jul 16 John Adams graduates Harvard
Casanova Imprisoned
Jul 26 Giacomo Casanova is arrested in Venice for affront to religion and common decency and imprisoned in the Doge's Palace
- Sep 8 Battle of Lake George in the Province of New York: British army beats French
- Sep 12 Giacomo Casanova is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in Venice without trial for affront to religion and common decency
- Sep 18 Fort Ticonderoga in New York opens
- Sep 19 Great Britain & Russia sign military agreement
- Nov 1 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Portugal
- Nov 14 Henry Fox appointed British 'Secretary of State for the Southern Department'
- Nov 18 Worst quake in Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths reported
William Pitt the Elder
Nov 20 English minister William Pitt the Elder resigns
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