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| 1767 |
| | | Lady Suffolk dies and the Marble Hill estate passes to her nephew the Earl of Buckinghamshire. He lives occasionally in the house but also rents it out. | |
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| 1767 |
| | | Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon complete a four-year survey to establish the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland | |
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| 1767 |
| | | Work begins on Edinburgh's New Town, to the design of the 23-year-old architect James Craig | |
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| 1767 |
| | | The British Chancellor, Charles Townshend, passes a series of acts taxing all glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported into the American colonies | |
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| 1768 |
| | | Captain James Cook sails from Plymouth, in England, heading for Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus | |
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| 1768 |
| | | A French artist, Jean Baptiste le Prince, discovers the aquatint technique in printmaking | |
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| 1768 |
| | | A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica | |
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| 1768 |
| | | Corsica is sold to France by the republic of Genoa | |
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| 1768 |
| | | A border incident at Balta, in the southern Ukraine, sparks a war between Russia and Turkey that will last six years | |
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| 1768 |
| | | The Royal Academy is established in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first president | |
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