1741

Founding of Birmingham's Aris's Gazette.

Samuel Garbett and James Roebuck established the large-scale manufacture of sulphuric acid in Birmingham for the brass industry.

1742

Benjamin Huntsman invented the crucible steel technique for smelting the metal at high temperatures.

1743

Thomas Boulsover produced the first Sheffield Plate. The development was taken up by Matthew Boulton at Soho.

1744

Violent anti-Methodist Riots at Wednesbury, Darlaston, Walsall and West Bromwich.

Admiral George Anson and his elder brother Thomas created an estate at Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire.

1745

The Jacobite Rebellion: Bonnie Prince Charlie reached Derby.

The poet William Shenstone began to transform an estate he inherited at Leasowes near Halesowen into a place of beauty which influenced many future landscape designers.

1747

J and N Philips installed Dutch swivel looms at Tean Hall in Cheshire for the manufacture of tape.

1748

Daniel Bourne and Lewis Paul patented the first carding machine.

1751

Concrete evidence of the first "Jews House" in Birmingham.