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| 1751 |
| | | English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in a Country Church Yard | |
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| 1751 |
| | | Richard Owen Cambridge, after whom the house is named, buys Cambridge Park. | |
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| 1751 |
| | | French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin returns to the subject matter that first took his interest, still life | |
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| 1751 |
| | | English gardener Lancelot Brown sets up in business as a freelance 'improver of grounds', and soon acquires the nickname Capablity Brown | |
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| 1752 |
| | | Britain is one of the last nations to adjust to the more accurate Gregorian calendar, causing a suspicious public to fear they have been robbed of eleven days | |
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| 1752 |
| | | English obstetrician William Smellie introduces scientific midwifery as a result of his researches into childbirth | |
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| 1752 |
| | | The French seize or evict every English-speaking trader in the region of the upper Ohio | |
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| 1752 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin flies a kite into a thunder cloud to demonstrate the nature of electricity | |
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| 1752 |
| | | French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard wins the cherished Prix de Rome at the age of 20 | |
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| 1753 |
| | | George Washington undertakes a difficult and ineffectual journey to persuade the French to withdraw from the Ohio valley | |
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