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| 1741 |
| | | Britain, already fighting Spain (in the War of Jenkin's Ear), is drawn into the wider conflict as an ally of Austria | |
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| 1741 |
| | | French and Bavarian forces enter Prague, one of the most important cities in the Austrian empire | |
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| 1742 |
| | | An Austrian army captures the Bavarian capital city, Munich | |
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| 1742 |
| | | Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius proposes 100 degrees between the freezing and boiling points of water | |
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| 1742 |
| | | Edmond Hoyle publishes the definitive rules of whist | |
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| 1743 |
| | | George II leads a British army to victory over the French at Dettingen | |
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| 1743 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin drafts in Philadelphia the founding document for the American Philosophical Society | |
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| 1744 |
| | | Muhammad ibn Saud begins the expansion of power that will lead eventually to the establishment of Saudi Arabia | |
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| 1744 |
| | | France formally declares war on Britain half way through the War of the Austrian Succession | |
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| 1744 |
| | | The Muslim reformer Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab makes an alliance with Muhammad ibn Saud, of significance to the later Saudi dynasty | |
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