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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 14]] &ndash; The [[First Kamchatka Expedition]], led by [[Vitus Bering]] and his crew sail northward on the ship ''Archangel Gabriel'' from the [[Kamchatka Peninsula]], through the [[Bering Strait]], and round [[Cape Dezhnev]].
* [[July 17]] &ndash; At the age of 8, Prince Teruhito, son of [[Emperor Nakamikado]], is named as the Crown Prince of Japan.  Teruhito becomes the [[Emperor Sakuramachi]] at age 15, upon his father's death.
* [[July 18]] &ndash; After a reign of only four months, [[Abdalmalik of Morocco|Abdalmalik]] is deposed as [[Sultan of Morocco]] by his half-brother [[Abu'l Abbas Ahmad of Morocco|Ahmad ad Dahabi]], whom he had deposed on March 13.  Abdalmalik is later captured and executed on March 2, 1729. 
* [[July 23]] &ndash; At the conclusion of the [[Szeged witch trials]] in the city of the same name in [[Hungary]], six men and six women are [[Death by burning|burned at the stake]] on the island of Boszorkány Sziget (Hungarian for "Witch Island").
* [[August 16]] &ndash; Because of advancing Arctic ice, the [[First Kamchatka Expedition]] turns around after [[Vitus Bering]] concludes (inaccurately) that it had reached the easternmost point of Russia and Asia, and fails to spot the coast of Alaska because of the weather.
* [[August 29]] &ndash; The City of [[Nuuk]] is founded in [[Greenland]], as ''Fort Godt-Haab'', by [[list of governors of Greenland|royal governor]] [[Claus Paarss]].
* [[September 15]] &ndash; Persian physician [[Mohammad Mehdi ibn Ali Naqi]] completes ''Zad al-musafirin'',  his treatise for travelers to Persia on preservation of their health.  He notes the date as a postscript in his manual. <ref>Lutz Richter-Bernburg, ''Persian Medical Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles: A Descriptive Catalogue'' (Malibu: Udena Publications, 1978) p. 155</ref>
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[John Deane (colonial administrator)|John Deane]], a colonial administrator of Britain's [[British East India Company]], returns to [[Calcutta]] (Kolkata) after an absence of more than two years, and takes office at [[Fort William, India|Fort William]] to return to administering the [[Bengal Presidency]], an area now covering the Indian state of [[West Bengal]] and the nation of [[Bangladesh]]. <ref>''Old Fort William in Bengal: A Selection of Official Documents Dealing with Its History'', ed. by C. R. Wilson (Government of India, 1906) p. 127 </ref> 
* Late Summer &ndash; [[Voltaire]] ends his exile in England.