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| c. 1760 |
| | | Asgill House, designed by Robert Taylor, is completed for Sir Charles Asgill, recently the Lord Mayor of London (1757-8) | |
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| 1760 |
| | | Hampton Court is effectively abandoned by George III as a Royal dwelling and gradually becomes occupied by "Grace and Favour" residents | |
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| 1760 |
| | | A new theatre opens in Richmond, with a prologue written for the occasion by David Garrick | |
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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 |
| | | Joseph Haydn enters the service of the Esterházy family, and stays with them for twenty-nine years | |
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| 1761 |
| | | Scottish chemist and physicist Joseph Black observes the latent heat in melting ice | |
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| 1761 |
| | | Austrian physician Joseph Leopold Auenbrugger describes his new diagnostic technique – percussion, or listening to a patient's chest and tapping | |
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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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| 1761 |
| | | Designed by Sir William Chambers, the Orangery in Kew Gardens is completed. It bears the arms of Princess Augusta, for whom it was built, and her husband Prince Frederick. | |
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| 1761 |
| | | Italian anatomist Giovanni Battista Morgagni publishes De Sedibus, the work that introduces scientific pathology | |
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