Editing 1684 (section)

=== July–September ===
* [[July 21]]–[[August 6]] – [[Morean War]]: [[Siege of Santa Maura (1684)|Siege of Santa Maura]] – The [[Republic of Venice]] captures the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] island fortress of [[Lefkada|Santa Maura]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Finlay |first1=George |title=The History of Greece Under Othoman and Venetian Domination |date=1856 |publisher=William Blackwood |page=209 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kg5CAAAAcAAJ&q=august%206th |access-date=1 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 24]] – [[René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]] sails again from France, with a large expedition designed to establish a [[French colony]] on the [[Gulf of Mexico]], at the mouth of the [[Mississippi River]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=James Wakefield |title=A forgotten glory : the missions of old Texas |date=1979 |publisher=Texian Press |location=Waco |isbn=978-0-87244-049-4 |page=38 |url=https://archive.org/details/forgottenglorymi0000burk/page/38/mode/2up?q=24 |access-date=1 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[August]] – [[Edmond Halley]] goes to [[Cambridge]] to discuss the problem of planetary motion with [[Isaac Newton]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=Alfred Rupert |title=Philosophers at War: The Quarrel Between Newton and Leibniz |date=12 September 2002 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-52489-6 |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJnquszl8CUC&dq=Edmond+Halley+%22august+1684%22&pg=PA24 |access-date=1 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 15]]
** France under Louis XIV makes the [[Truce of Ratisbon]] separately with the Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg) and Spain.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bas |first1=Philippe Le |title=Histoire de La Francia |date=1841 |publisher=Imprenta del Nacional |page=42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UvLFwbZf-asC&q=1684 |language=es|volume=2}}</ref>
** Louis XIV decrees the foundation of the [[Maison royale de Saint-Louis]], a boarding school for girls at [[Saint-Cyr-l'École|Saint-Cyr]], at the urging of [[Madame de Maintenon]].
* [[September 21]] – [[Morean War]]: The [[Republic of Venice]] captures the fortress town of [[Preveza]] from the [[Ottoman Empire]].