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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 29]] &ndash;  [[Royal Navy]] Admiral [[Edward Boscawen]] arrives at the coast of southeastern [[India]] with 28 ships, to defend [[Fort St. David]] from attacks by armies of [[French India]].  Historian [[Francis Grose]] later writes that Boscawen had brought the largest fleet "ever seen together in the East Indies", with nine ships of the line, two frigates, a sloop, and two tenders" <ref>[[Charles Rathbone Low]], ''History of the Indian Navy: (1613-1863)'' (Richard Bentley and Son, 1877) p140</ref> and 14 ships of the British East India Company.  Altogether, Boscawen has 3,580 sailors under his command.  He then launches an offensive to destroy the French fort at [[Puducherry (city)|Pondicherry]] and drive France from the subcontinent.
* [[August 26]] &ndash;  The first [[Lutheran Church]] body in America is founded at a conference in [[Philadelphia]], organized by German-born evangelist [[Henry Muhlenberg]] and attended by pastors of orthodox and pious Lutheran communities.<ref>Henry Eyster Jacobs, ''A History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States'' (The Christian Literature Co., 1893 p243</ref>  The two groups agree to create a common [[liturgy]] to govern public worship.
* [[August]] &ndash; The [[Nymphalis antiopa|Camberwell beauty]] butterfly is named after specimens found at Camberwell in London.
* [[September 24]] &ndash; [[Shahrukh Afshar|Shah Rukh]] becomes ruler of [[Greater Khorasan]].