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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[Monmouth Rebellion]]: In the [[Battle of Sedgemoor]], the last [[pitched battle]] fought on [[England|English]] soil, the armies of King [[James II of England]] defeat rebel forces under [[James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth]], and capture the Duke himself shortly after the battle.
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth]], is executed at [[Tower Hill]], London, England.
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Morean War]]: The 49-day [[Siege of Coron (1685)|Siege of Coron]] ends with the surrender and massacre of its garrison by the Venetians.<ref>{{cite book | last=Setton | first=Kenneth Meyer | author-link=Kenneth Setton | title=Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century | publisher=The American Philosophical Society | location=Philadelphia | year=1991 | isbn=0-87169-192-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XN51y209fR8C | page = 296}}</ref>
* [[August 25]] &ndash; The [[Bloody Assizes]] begin in [[Winchester]]: [[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales|Lord Chief Justice of England]] [[George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys|George Jeffreys]] tries over 1000 of Monmouth's rebels and condemns them to death or transportation.
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Morean War]]: The [[Republic of Venice]] defeats an [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] army at [[Kalamata]].
* [[September 29]] &ndash; The first organised street lighting is introduced by the city of [[London]] in [[England]], as Edward Hemming begins carrying out his contract to be paid for lighting an [[oil lamp]] "at every tenth house on main streets between 6 PM and midnight between September 29 and March 25" on nights in the autumn and winter without adequate moonlight. <ref>Robert O. Bucholz and Joseph P. Ward, ''London A Social and Cultural History, 1550–1750'' (Cambridge University Press, 2012) p. 130 </ref>