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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 3]]
** [[Pitcairn Island]] in the Pacific Ocean is sighted from HMS ''Swallow'', by 15-year-old [[Midshipman]] [[Robert Pitcairn (midshipman)|Robert Pitcairn]], on a British Royal Navy expeditionary voyage commanded by [[Philip Carteret]], the first definite European sighting.
** [[Norway]]'s oldest newspaper still in print, ''[[Adresseavisen]]'', is first published.
* [[August 26]] &ndash; Construction begins on [[Tryon Palace]] in [[New Bern, North Carolina]]. The construction proves more expensive than initially expected, leading the government to increase local taxes. This stirs resentment among some North Carolinians, and helps prolong the [[War of the Regulation]].
* [[September 29]] &ndash; The Spanish Empire's [[Governorate of the Río de la Plata]] and [[Governorate of Paraguay]] begin the process of expulsion of the 456 members of the [[Society of Jesus]] (the Jesuits) from southern South America, placing them on five ships bound for Spain.<ref>Miguel de Asúa, ''Science in the Vanished Arcadia: Knowledge of Nature in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and Río de la Plata'' (BRILL, 2014) p259</ref>