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| 1763 |
| | | A treaty signed in Paris ends the Seven Years' War between Britain, France and Spain | |
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| 1763 |
| | | English journalist John Wilkes is arrested for publishing seditious libel in issue no 45 of his weekly magazine The North Briton | |
|  | Teapot and mug in support of Wilkes
People's History Museum, Manchester
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| 1763 |
| | | James Boswell meets Samuel Johnson for the first time, in the London bookshop of Thomas Davies | |
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| 1763 |
| | | American artist Benjamin West settles in London, where he becomes famous for his large-scale history scenes | |
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| 1764 |
| | | James Watt ponders on the inefficiency of contemporary steam engines and invents the condenser | |
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| 1764 |
| | | Britain passes the Sugar Act, levying duty on sugar, wine and textiles imported into America | |
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| 1764 |
| | | Lancashire spinner James Hargreaves conceives the idea of the spinning jenny, with multiple spindles worked from a single wheel | |
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| 1764 |
| | | English historian Edward Gibbon, sitting among ruins in Rome, conceives the idea of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | |
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| 1764 |
| | | English author Horace Walpole provides an early taste of Gothic thrills in his novel Castle of Otranto | |
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| 1765 |
| | | Britain passes the Stamp Act, taxing legal documents and newspapers in the American colonies | |
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