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=== July–September ===
* [[July 11]] – The [[Prussian Academy of Sciences]] is founded, with [[Gottfried Leibniz]] as president.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/Berlin.html|title=Berlin Academy of Science|last1=O'Connor|first1=John J.|first2=Edmund F.|last2=Robertson |work=MacTutor History of Mathematics|access-date=21 November 2011<!--Added by DASHBot-->|date=August 2004}}</ref>
* [[July 24]] – [[Charles XII of Sweden]] counter-attacks his enemies by invading [[Zealand]] (Denmark), assisted by an Anglo-Dutch naval squadron under Sir [[George Rooke]], rapidly compelling the Danes to submit to peace.<ref>Anthony Guggenberger, ''A General History of the Christian Era: The Social Revolution'' (B. Herder, 1906) p. 16.</ref>
* [[July 30]] – Eleven-year-old [[Prince William, Duke of Gloucester]], dies of "a malignant fever" at [[Windsor Castle]], leaving the Protestant [[succession to the British throne]] in doubt.
* [[August 18]] ([[August 7]] [[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) – The [[Peace of Travendal]] is concluded between the [[Swedish Empire]], [[Denmark–Norway]] and [[Holstein-Gottorp]] in [[Traventhal]]. On the same day, [[Augustus II the Strong|Augustus II]], [[King of Poland]], and [[Peter the Great]], [[Tsar of Russia]], enter the war against Sweden.
* [[September 6]] – [[Edmond Halley]] returns to England after a voyage of almost one year on [[HMS Paramour (1694)|HMS ''Paramour'']], from which he has observed the [[Antarctic Convergence]],<ref>{{cite book|first=Alan|last=Gurney|title=Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839|publisher=Norton|location=New York|year=1997|isbn=0-393-03949-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/belowconvergence0000gurn}}</ref> and publishes his findings on terrestrial magnetism in ''General Chart of the Variation of the Compass''.
* [[September 12]] – [[Antioh Cantemir]] is deposed as the [[List of rulers of Moldavia|voivode of Moldavia]] and replaced by his predecessor [[Constantine Ducas]].
* [[September 13]]-[[September 14|14]] – The [[List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 18th century|Rising-sun hurricane of 1700]] strikes the coast of [[South Carolina]], killing 98.
* [[September 27]] – [[Pope Innocent XII]] dies at the age of 85 after a tenure of more than nine years.  [[Fabrizio Spada]], the [[Cardinal Secretary of State]], assumes administration of the Roman Catholic Church in order to oversee the election of a new Pope.
* [[September]] – A Russian army invades [[Swedish Estonia]], and besieges the town of [[Narva]].<ref>Lindsey Hughes, ''Peter the Great: A Biography'' (Yale University Press, 1998) p. 63.</ref>