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=== July–September ===
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Trịnh Tạc]], the warlord who administers the [[Dai Viet|Kingdom of Vietnam]], issues an order banning all foreign vessels from entering the harbor at [[Hanoi]], requiring to anchor no closer than the river port  at [[Hưng Yên|Pho Hien]], {{convert|35|mi}} down the Red River from Hanoi.   
* [[July 16]] &ndash; A rockfall from the [[Mönchsberg]] mountain above [[Salzburg]] in Austria kills 230 people as tons of the mountainside fall onto a neighborhood on a street, the ''Gstättengasse''.
* [[July 24]] &ndash; During an attempt by a fleet of French Navy ships to stop the [[siege of Candia]] by bombardment of Ottoman positions on the island of [[Crete]], the arsenal of gunpowder on the French [[flagship]], the 56-gun warship [[French ship Thérèse (1665)|''Thérèse'']], catches fire and explodes. Out of 350 crew on the ''Thérèse'', only seven survive. Demoralized, the remaining French commanders halt the bombardment and the fleet withdraws.
* [[July 25]] &ndash; Pieter Bickel, a Lutheran pastor and a mountaineer in Austria, becomes the first person to climb to the peak of the tallest of the Southeastern Walsertal Mountains, the {{convert|8310|foot}} [[Großer Widderstein]].
* [[July]] &ndash; The [[Hanseatic League]], after 400 years of operation, holds its last official meeting, taking place at the city of [[Lübeck]]. At its height, the economic alliance of German cities had 180 members; only nine (Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen, Danzig, Braunschweig, Cologne, Hildesheim, Osnabrück and Rostock) are represented for the final gathering.<ref>Dieter Zimmerling, ''The Hanseatic League: Trading Power under the Sign of the Cog'' (Heyne, 1978)</ref> The final series of meetings had started on May 29.<ref>Werner Scheltjens, ''North Eurasian Trade in World History, 1660–1860: The Economic and Political Importance of the Baltic Sea'' (Taylor & Francis, 2021)</ref>
* [[August 17]] &ndash; A group of English settlers, led by [[Joseph West (politician)|Joseph West]], departs from The Downs on the ship ''Carolina'' with instructions to make the first European settlement in the modern-day U.S. state of [[South Carolina]]. After a long voyage with stops in Ireland and Barbados, the ''Carolina'' settlers arrive at Port Royal on March 17 next.  
* [[August 24]] &ndash;  "The [[Man in the Iron Mask]]", a prisoner identified as "Eustache Dauger", arrives at the French fortress of [[Pinerolo|Pignerol]], with [[Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars]] in charge of his incarceration. The identity of the prisoner is kept secret with a mask &ndash; actually of velvet &ndash; over his face, so legends as to his true identity grow.<ref>French novelist and historian [[Marcel Pagnol]] theorizes in a 1965 book, ''[[Le Secret du Masque de fer]]'', that the prisoner is the older, illegitimate brother of France's King [[Louis XIV]], punished for conspiracy against the crown.</ref>  
* [[August 25]] &ndash; The day after the verdicts at the [[Mora witch trial]] in Sweden, 14 women and one man are publicly beheaded after having confessed to various crimes involving the use of "enchanted tools" on behalf of the Devil. Another 47 are convicted and taken away for a later execution.  
* [[September 6]] &ndash; [[Francesco Morosini]], ''capitano generale'' of the Venetian forces in the [[siege of Candia]], surrenders to the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]].
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor]] grants the status and privileges of a [[university]] to the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] [[Academy]] in [[Zagreb]], the precursor to the modern [[University of Zagreb]].
* [[September 29]] &ndash; The formal coronation of [[Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki]] as [[King of Poland]] (and [[Grand Duke of Lithuania]]) takes place in [[Kraków]].