| Date | | | |
| 1748 | | The south wall from Ringsend commenced, and carried out a mile and a half into the sea. A ring of bells hung in Werburgh's steeple. | |
| 1749 | | Charter of incorporation, and £500, granted to the Dublin Society. Spire erected on St. Patrick's steeple. Mercer's Hospital incorporated. The meeting-house of Wesleyan Methodists in Whitefriar-street founded. | |
| 1751 | | The building of the Lying-in Hospital in Great Britain-street commenced. | |
| 1752 | | The new style commenced, by rejecting eleven days from the calendar; the first of September being reckoned the 12th. | |
| 1753 | | The increase of houses in Dublin since 1711 found to be 4,000; which at an average of eight inhabitants to a house, gives an increase of population of 32,000. The Hospital for incurables removed to Townsend-street. St. Nicholas' Hospital, Francis street, opened. The foundation of a new bridge, on the site of Essex-bridge, laid; on which occasion the equestrian statue of George I. was taken down. | |
| 1754 | | St.Werburgh's Church burnt. The south wall completed to the Pigeon House. | |
| 1756 | | New Essex-bridge finished. St. Patrick's Hospital for lunatics opened. The Lying-in Hospital incorporated, and next year opened for patients. | |
| 1758 | | An equestrian statue of George II. set up in the centre of St. Stephen's-green. Foundation of St. Thomas' Church laid. A theatre opened in Crow-street. | |
| 1759 | | An Act passed for regulating the corporation of Dublin, whereby the junior guilds acquired considerable privileges. St. Werburgh's Church rebuilt The square of Trinity College towards College-green finished. | |
| 1761 | | St. Catherine's Church, Thomas-street, built. | |