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===July–September===
* [[July 8]] – [[Longitude prize]]: The [[Parliament of Great Britain]] votes "to offer a reward for such person or persons as shall discover the [[Longitude]]" (£10,000 for any method capable of determining a ship's longitude within 1 degree; £15,000, within 40 minutes, and £20,000 within ½ a degree).<ref>{{cite web|title=Origins of the Longitude Prize|url=https://longitudeprize.org/the-history/|work=Longitude Prize|accessdate=2021-09-29}}</ref>
* [[July 27]] – The [[Imperial Russian Navy]] gains its first important victory against the [[Swedish Navy]] in the [[Battle of Gangut]].
* [[August 1]] – [[George I of Great Britain|Georg Ludwig von Braunschweig-Lüneburg]], Elector of [[Hanover]], becomes King [[George I of Great Britain]] and Ireland, on the death of [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]]. Anne's death brings an end to the reign of the [[House of Stuart]], in that her half-brother [[James Francis Edward Stuart]], the eldest son of [[James II of England]], has been ineligible for the British throne based on the [[Act of Settlement 1701]] had barred members of the [[Roman Catholic church]] from becoming monarchs. George of Hanover, as great-grandson of James I of England and a second cousin to Anne, is deemed the eldest living Protestant descendant of James I.
* [[September 11]] – [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: [[Barcelona]] is taken after a [[Siege of Barcelona (1713–14)|year's siege]], and [[Catalonia]] surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies.
* [[September 18]] – [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], the new King of Great Britain and Ireland, arrives in Britain for the first time in his life, after having departed [[Hannover]] and sailing from the Netherlands.<ref name=Weir>{{cite book|authorlink=Alison Weir|first=Alison|last=Weir|title=Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy|publisher=Random House|year=1996|pages=272–276}}</ref>
* [[September 29]] – [[The Great Hatred]]: the [[Cossacks]] of the [[Russian Empire]] kill about 800 people overnight on the Finnish island of [[Hailuoto]].<ref>{{cite news | last = Kaitasuo | first = Pia | title = Pietari Suuren synkkä tuhon kylvö | work = [[Kaleva (newspaper)|Kaleva]] | date = 2015-08-15 | number = 221 | page =  | pages = 34–35 | location = Oulu | publisher = Kaleva Oy | issn= 0356-1356 | language = fi}}</ref>