July 1 – English metallurgistWilliam Champion is granted a patent for his process of extractingzinc from other materials in a furnace.[11]
July 10 –Thomas Pellow ofCornwall finally escapes captivity, 23 years after having been captured byBarbary pirates and held as a slave inMorocco. He arrives in British territory when the ship he is on sails into Gibraltar Bay on July 21, and later recounts his story in the bookThe Adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, Mariner: Three and Twenty Years in Captivity Among the Moors.[12]
December 27 – After setting off from Rotterdam in August with 240 immigrants to America, the British shipPrincess Augusta is wrecked nearBlock Island off of the coast of the colony ofRhode Island.[15] During the voyage, 200 passengers and seven crew die from illness spread by contaminated water. Another 20 die after the crew leaves and rows to shore. The wreck later becomes the subject of the legend of the "Palatine Light" ghost ship and ofJohn Greenleaf Whittier's 1867 poem "The Palatine".
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, having completed a law degree, is hired as a court musician by Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia, the futureFrederick the Great (Bach will remain in Frederick's service until1768).
^Corfield, Justin. "Paul, Lewis".The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History. p. 710.
^Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso,The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739) (Brill, 2016) p232
^Bennet Woodcroft,Titles of Patents of Invention, Chronologically Arranged, From March 2, 1617 (14 James I.) to October 1, 1852 (16 Victoriae). 1617-1823 (The Queen's Printing Office, 1854) p104-105
^Thomas Pellow,The Adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, Mariner (reprinted by T. Fisher Unwin, 1890) pp. 813-816
^C. H. von Manstein,Memoirs of Russia, Historical, Political and Military, from the Year 1727 to 1744 (Beckett & DeHondt, 1770) pp203-210
^Pedar Foss and John J. Dobbins,The World of Pompeii (Routledge, 2009) p29
^Jill Farinelli,The Palatine Wreck: The Legend of the New England Ghost Ship (University Press of New England, 2017) pp. 101-105
