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| 1763 |
| | | The capital of the Portuguese colony of Brazil is moved from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro | |
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| 1764 |
| | | A French expedition from St Malo, founding a colony on East Falkland, name the islands Les Îsles Malouines | |
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| c. 1770 |
| | | The triangular trade, controlled from Liverpool, ships millions of Africans across the Atlantic as slaves | |
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| 1774 |
| | | The Spanish, now in sole occupation of the Falkland Islands, call them Las Islas Malvinas | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Spanish America is now administered as four viceroyalties - New Spain, New Granada, New Peru and La Plata | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Buenos Aires rather than Asunción is chosen to be capital of the new Spanish viceroyalty of La Plata | |
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| 1780 |
| | | An Indian uprising in Spanish Peru is led by a descendant of the Incas, Tupac Amaru II | |
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| 1788 |
| | | Tiradentes (the 'puller of teeth') leads the first rebellion against Portuguese rule in Brazil | |
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| 1792 |
| | | The Brazilian rebel Tiradentes is beheaded in public in Rio de Janeiro as a warning to would-be revolutionaries | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave, joins a Spanish force invading the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) | |
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