• February 11 - Pennsylvania Hospital[?], the 1st hospital in the US, is opened.
• September 14 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, making it necessary to skip eleven days (September 2 being followed directly by September 14 this year)
• Adam Smith at the University of Glasgow transfers to professor of moral philosophy

Births

• February 25 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada

Deaths