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| 1758 |
| | | Garrick commissions from Roubiliac a statue of Shakespeare for a large niche in the Temple at Hampton. The original is now in the British Museum and an exact is replica in Garrick's Temple | |
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| 1758 |
| | | A comet returns exactly at the time predicted by English astronomer Edmond Halley, and is subsequently known by his name | |
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| 1758 |
| | | Stanhope remodels and extends Pope's Villa. | |
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| 1758 |
| | | James Woodforde, an English country parson with a love of food and wine, begins a detailed diary of everyday life | |
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| 1758 |
| | | Liverpool-born artist George Stubbs sets up in London as a painter, above all, of people and horses | |
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| c. 1759 |
| | | Portrait-painter Thomas Gainsborough moves from Suffolk to set up a studio in fashionable Bath | |
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| 1759 |
| | | Voltaire publishes Candide, a satire on optimism prompted by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 | |
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| 1759 |
| | | British general James Wolfe sails up the St Lawrence river with 15,000 men to besiege Quebec | |
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| 1759 |
| | | The Portuguese expel the Jesuits from Brazil, beginning a widespread reaction against the order in Catholic Europe | |
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| 1759 |
| | | Staffordshire potter Josiah Wedgwood sets up a factory of his own in his home town of Burslem | |
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