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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[François-Jean de la Barre]], a young French nobleman, is [[torture]]d and [[Decapitation|beheaded]], before his body is burnt on a [[pyre]], along with a copy of [[Voltaire]]'s ''[[Dictionnaire philosophique]]'' nailed to his torso, supposedly for the crime of not saluting a [[Roman Catholic]] religious procession in [[Abbeville]], and for other sacrileges, including desecrating a crucifix.
* [[August 10]] &ndash; During the occupation of New York, members of the 28th Foot Regiment of the British Army chop down the liberty pole that was erected by the Sons of Liberty on June 4. The Sons of Liberty put up a second pole the next day, and that pole is cut down on August 22.<ref>{{cite book|first=Mike|last=Rapport|title=The Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution|publisher=Basic Books|year=2017}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] &ndash; A hurricane sweeps across the French island colony of [[Martinique]], killing more than 400 people and destroying the plantation owned by Joseph-Gaspard de La Pagerie, the father of the future French [[Empress Joséphine]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Christopher|last=Hibbert|author-link=Christopher Hibbert|title=Napoleon's Women|publisher=W. W. Norton|year=2003|page=2}}</ref>
* [[September 1]] &ndash; The revolt in [[Quito]] (at this time part of Spain's  [[Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada]]; the modern-day capital of [[Ecuador]]) is ended peacefully as royal forces enter the city under the command of [[Guayaquil]] Governor Pedro Zelaya. Rather than seeking retribution from the Quito citizens over their insurrection that has broken the monopoly over the sale of the liquor [[aguardiente]], Zeleaya oversees a program of reconciliation.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jaime E.|last=Rodriguez O.|title=Political Culture in Spanish America, 1500–1830|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|year=2018|page=62}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] &ndash; The position of [[List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church|Patriarch of the Serbs]], established on April 9, 1346 as the authority over the [[Serbian Orthodox Church]], is abolished by order of [[Mustafa III|Sultan Mustafa III]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]]; the patriarchate is not re-established until [[1920]] following the creation of [[Yugoslavia]] at the end of World War One.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Yugoslavia|title=The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1936|publisher=Macmillan and Co.|year=1936|page=1388}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[John Penn (governor)|John Penn]], the Colonial Governor of Pennsylvania and one of the four Penn family owners of the Pennsylvania land grant, issues a proclamation forbidding British American colonist residents from building settlements on lands in the west "not yet purchased of the Nations" of the [[Iroquois]] Indians.<ref>{{cite book|first=Kevin|last=Kenny|title=Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2011|page=210}}</ref>