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On the death of his grandfather, George II, George III becomes king of Great Britain
Joseph Haydn enters the service of the Esterházy family, and stays with them for twenty-nine years
Scottish chemist and physicist Joseph Black observes the latent heat in melting ice
Austrian physician Joseph Leopold Auenbrugger describes his new diagnostic technique – percussion, or listening to a patient's chest and tapping
John Harrison's fourth chronometer is only five seconds out at the end of a test journey from England to Jamaica
Designed by Sir William Chambers, the Orangery in Kew Gardens is completed. It bears the arms of Princess Augusta, for whom it was built, and her husband Prince Frederick.
Italian anatomist Giovanni Battista Morgagni publishes De Sedibus, the work that introduces scientific pathology
George Washington, the future president, inherits Mount Vernon from his half-brother Lawrence
Johann Sebastian Bach's youngest son, Johann Christian, moves to London and becomes known as the English Bach
Two books in this year, Émile and Du Contrat Social, prompt orders for the arrest of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The intensely dramatic music of Gluck's Orfeo ed Eurydice introduces a much needed reform in the conventions of opera
Fingal, supposedly by the medieval Celtic poet Ossian, has a huge and fashionable success but is revealed to be a forgery by James Macpherson
6-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart plays for the Habsburg empress Maria Theresa
The Pagoda, designed by Sir William Chambers, is completed in Kew Gardens. The roofs are covered with varnished iron plates and there are 80 carved golden dragons on the corners of the roofs
Elliot Bishop buys the 8-acre estate in the south east corner of Ham Common (the site of the future Cassel Hospital)
The capital of the Portuguese colony of Brazil is moved from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro
A treaty signed in Paris ends the Seven Years' War between Britain, France and Spain
In the treaty of Paris France cedes to Britain all its territory north of the Great Lakes and east of the Mississippi river, except the district of New Orleans
In the treaty of Paris, Spain cedes Florida to Britain, completing British possession of the entire east coast of north America
The Treaty of Hubertusburg, between Prussia and Austria, increases the power of Prussia among the many separate states of Germany
English journalist John Wilkes is arrested for publishing seditious libel in issue no 45 of his weekly magazine The North Briton
James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson for the first time, in the London bookshop of Thomas Davies
Pontiac, an Ottawa chief, leads an uprising of the Indian tribes in an attempt to drive the British east of the Appalachians
7-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart begins a three-year concert tour of Europe
Some of Whitton Park's finest specimen trees and shrubs are transferred to the newly created botanical gardens at Kew.
