Editing 1722 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
[[File:Lansereships.jpg|thumb|right|[[July 26]]: Start of the [[Russo-Persian War (1722–1723)|Russo-Persian War]].]]
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Father Rale's War]] (1722–1725) begins along the [[Maine]] and [[Massachusetts]] border.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wicken |first=William Craig |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0MEQyYggQE8C&pg=PP1 |title=Mi'kmaq treaties on trial : history, land and Donald Marshall Junior |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-1-4426-7021-1 |location=Toronto |pages=71 |language=en |oclc=806068866}}</ref>
* [[July 26]] (July 15 O.S.) &ndash; The [[Russo-Persian War (1722–1723)]] begins with [[Peter the Great]]'s Persian campaign.
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Francis Atterbury]], Anglican [[Bishop of Rochester]] and [[Dean of Westminster]], is arrested in his deanery and confined in the [[Tower of London]] for treason, accused of leading the [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] "[[Atterbury Plot]]" in support of the [[pretender]] [[James Francis Edward Stuart]]<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=D. W.|last=Hayton|title=Atterbury, Francis (1663–1732)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/871|access-date=2012-11-22|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/871}}</ref> with the aim of overthrowing the [[House of Hanover]] and King [[George I of Great Britain]] and restoring the [[House of Stuart]] by installing  Prince James as "King James III".  
* [[September 6]] &ndash; Wälättä Giyorgis, a 16-year-old who nursed Ethiopia's Emperor [[Bakaffa]] back to health after he fell ill, marries the Emperor and begins her rise to power as the Empress [[Mentewab]]. Upon Bakaffa's death in 1730, Mentewab becomes the regent for her son by Bakaffa, [[Iyasu II]].
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[New Orleans|La Nouvelle-Orléans]] (New Orleans), recently established by France as the capital of the [[French Louisiana|Louisiana Territory]] is hit by what is later called the "Great Hurricane of 1722", starting with  {{convert|7|ft}} high waves, followed by winds in excess of {{convert|100|mph}}. By September 24, "Almost every public building in New Orleans, from the hospital to the cathedral" is "either unroofed or totally ruined."<ref>David Longshore, ''Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones'' (Facts on File, 2008) p293</ref>