• February 14 - Henry Pelham becomes Prime Minister of England
• Battle of Dettingen

Births

• February 13 - Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist
• February 19 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian classical music preformer
• February 23 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild[?], banker (+ 1812)
• March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss author, (+ 1818)
• April 13 - Thomas Jefferson, later 3rd President of the United States(+ 1826).
• August 26 - Antoine Lavoisier (French chemist aka father of modern chemistry)
• September 17 - Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist

Deaths