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| 1751 |
| | | By the time of his death the prolific output of Domenico Scarlatti includes 555 sonatas, all but a few for his own instrument, the harpsichord | |
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| 1757 |
| | | Walpole founds a printing press, the Strawberry Hill Press. | |
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| 1757 |
| | | Admiral John Byng is shot on the deck of a ship in Portsmouth harbour for 'neglect of duty' in failing to relieve Minorca | |
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| 1757 |
| | | Robert Clive defeats the nawab of Bengal at the battle of Plassey, and places his own man on the throne | |
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| 1757 |
| | | Robert Adam returns to Britain after two years in Rome with a repertoire of classical themes which he mingles to form a new British neoclassicism | |
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| 1757 |
| | | William Pitt the Elder becomes secretary of state and transforms the British war effort against France in America | |
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| 1757 |
| | | After the death of Prince Frederick in 1751, his widow Princess Augusta establishes the botanical gardens at Kew. | |
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| 1757 |
| | | John Robartes dies and Radnor House passes through various ownerships. | |
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| 1757 |
| | | English painter Joseph Wright sets up a studio in his home town, Derby | |
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| c. 1758 |
| | | Joshua Reynolds, by now the most fashionable portrait painter in London, copes with as many as 150 sitters in a year | |
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