Events
- 17 January - American Revolution: British troops clash with American colonists at the Battle of Golden Hill.
- 28 January - Following Grafton's resignation, Lord North forms a government and becomes Prime Minister.
- 5 March - Boston Massacre: five Americans killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War five years later.
- 12 April - American Revolution: Parliament repeals the Townshend Act.
- 20 April - First voyage of James Cook discovers the eastern coast of Australia.
- 9 June - Spanish troops seize Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands triggering a crisis.
- 10 June - James Cook discovers the Great Barrier Reef when HM Bark Endeavour runs onto it.
- July - Industrial Revolution: James Hargreaves obtains a patent for the spinning jenny.
- 22 August - James Cook claims the eastern coast of New Holland (Australia) for Great Britain.
- 18 October - Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, admits its first patients.
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