Editing 1761 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 17]] &ndash; The first section of the [[Bridgewater Canal]] is opened, for the transportation of coal from local mines to [[Manchester]].<ref>''BBC History'', July 2011, p 12</ref>
* [[August 6]] &ndash; The [[Parlement of Paris]] votes to close all colleges, associations and seminaries associated with the [[Jesuit]] Order, following a long campaign by Louis-Adrien Le Paige.  <ref>David A. Bell, ''Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France'' (Oxford University Press, 1994) p129</ref> 
* [[August 11]] &ndash; Two years after his marriage to [[Martha Washington|Martha Custis]] and his move to [[Mount Vernon]], American military officer and politician [[George Washington]] advertises a reward in the ''Maryland Gazette'' for the capture of four fugitive slaves who ran away from him: Cupid, Peros, Jack and Neptune, claiming in the gazette that they had escaped "without the least suspicion, provocation, or difference with anybody".<ref>Ron Chernow, ''Washington: A Life'' (Penguin, 2010)</ref> 
* [[August 15]] &ndash; The [[Pacte de Famille#The third Pacte de Famille|Third Family Compact]] is executed by King [[Charles III of Spain]] and King [[Louis XV of France]], as well as representatives of members of the [[House of Bourbon]], King [[Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies|Ferdinand IV of Naples]] and [[Philip, Duke of Parma]]. <ref> William R. Nester, ''The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756-1775'' (Greenwood, 2000)  p213</ref> 
* [[August 29]] &ndash; Cherokee chief [[Attakullakulla]] and [[British Army]] officer Major [[James Grant (British Army officer, born 1720)|James Grant]] meet at [[Fort Prince George (South Carolina)|Fort Prince George]] in the [[Province of South Carolina]] and begin negotiations to end the [[Anglo-Cherokee War]]. <ref>William R. Reynolds, Jr., ''The Cherokee Struggle to Maintain Identity in the 17th and 18th Centuries'' (McFarland, 2015) p96</ref><ref>Stan Hoig, ''The Cherokees and Their Chiefs: In the Wake of Empire'' (University of Arkansas Press, 1998) p43</ref>
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[George III]] marries [[Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]].
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Slavery in Portugal]] is abolished.
* [[September 22]] &ndash; George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned.