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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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| c. 1754 |
| | | Francesco Guardi, previously a painter of figures, begins to specialize in view of Venice, his native city | |
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| 1761 |
| | | Italian anatomist Giovanni Battista Morgagni publishes De Sedibus, the work that introduces scientific pathology | |
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| 1773 |
| | | Responding to pressure from the Catholic monarchs of Europe, Clement XIV abolishes the Jesuit Order | |
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| 1782 |
| | | Italian sculptor Antonio Canova sets up his studio in Rome and begins producing finely modelled nudes in the Greek style | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Horatio Nelson, with his ship docked in Naples, meets Lady Hamilton, wife of the British envoy | |
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| 1794 |
| | | Virtuoso violinist Nicolo Paganini gives his first public performances, in churches in his native Genoa | |
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| 1796 |
| | | In the armistice of Cherasco the king of Sardinia cedes to France his territories of Savoy and Nice | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Napoleon Bonaparte takes command of the French army of Italy, with astonishingly successful results | |
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| 1796 |
| | | After two rapid victories in north Italy, Napoleon marches on Turin and the king of Sardinia asks for an armistice | |
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