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| 1765 |
| | | American campaigners against the Stamp Act organize themselves as the Sons of Liberty in Massachusetts and New York | |
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| 1766 |
| | | Britain repeals the Stamp Act, in a major reversal of policy achieved by resistance in the American colonies | |
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| 1766 |
| | | English chemist Henry Cavendish isolates hydrogen but believes that it is phlogiston | |
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| 1766 |
| | | Irish novelist Oliver Goldsmith publishes The Vicar of Wakefield, with a hero who has much to complain about but keeps calm | |
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| 1766 |
| | | Pierre le Roy's chronometer, as accurate as Harrison's and cheaper to construct, is set to become the standard model | |
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| 1766 |
| | | George Gostling buys Whitton Park, converts the greenhouse to a mansion and divides the estate, selling or leasing Whitton Place. | |
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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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