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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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| 1759 |
| | | Laurence Sterne publishes the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy, beginning with the scene at the hero's conception | |
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| 1759 |
| | | A British defeat of the French in Quiberon Bay prompts David Garrick to write Heart of Oak | |
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| 1759 |
| | | A succession of victories cause 1759 to be known in Britain as annus mirabilis, the wonderful year | |
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| c. 1760 |
| | | German painter Johann Zoffany moves to England to find work as a painter of conversation pieces and portraits | |
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| 1760 |
| | | On the death of his grandfather, George II, George III becomes king of Great Britain | |
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| 1761 |
| | | Scottish chemist and physicist Joseph Black observes the latent heat in melting ice | |
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| 1761 |
| | | John Harrison's fourth chronometer is only five seconds out at the end of a test journey from England to Jamaica | |
|  | Harrison's 1st Marine Timekeeper
National Maritime Museum
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| 1762 |
| | | Johann Sebastian Bach's youngest son, Johann Christian, moves to London and becomes known as the English Bach | |
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| 1762 |
| | | Fingal, supposedly by the medieval poet Ossian, is a forgery in the spirit of the times by James MacPherson | |
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