Editing 1769 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 3]] &ndash; [[Richard Arkwright]] patents a [[spinning frame]] in England, able to weave fabric mechanically.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology325">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/325 325]|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/325}}</ref>
* [[July 16]] &ndash; Father [[Junípero Serra]] founds [[Mission San Diego de Alcalá]], the first of the 21 [[California missions]].
* [[July 20]] &ndash; Recently appointed as the Governor of [[Spanish Louisiana]], Irish-born soldier of fortune [[Alejandro O'Reilly]] sails into the French fort of [[La Balize, Louisiana|La Balize]] with 21 Spanish ships, along with 2,056 soldiers, cannons and ammunition, and informs [[French Louisiana]] Governor [[Charles Philippe Aubry]] of his royal commission to take Louisiana on behalf of the King of Spain.<ref>Joan Garvey and Mary Lou Widmer, ''Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans'' (Pelican Publishing,  2012) pp62-63</ref> 
* [[August 3]] &ndash; The party of [[Gaspar de Portolà]] becomes the first [[White people|white]] group to set foot in the area now known as [[Santa Monica, California]].
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Brescia Explosion]]: The city of [[Brescia]], Italy is devastated when the Church of San Nazaro is struck by lightning. The resulting fire ignites 200,000&nbsp;lb (90,000&nbsp;kg) of [[gunpowder]] being stored there, causing a massive explosion, which destroys 1/6 of the city and kills 3,000 people.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pYQEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA659 |title=The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs |date=1857 |publisher=Brown, Son and Ferguson |pages=659 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September]] &ndash; Massive droughts in [[Bengal]] lead to the [[Bengal famine of 1770]], in which ten million people, a third of the population, will die, the worst natural disaster in human history (in terms of lives lost).
* [[September 6]]&ndash;[[September 9|9]] &ndash; [[David Garrick]] holds a ''[[Shakespeare Jubilee]]'' festival at [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] in England.
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Russo-Turkish War (1768–74)]]: Russian forces take the Ottoman fortress of [[Chocim]] in [[Bukovina]].