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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July]] &ndash; [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor]], receives a visit from [[Pope Pius VI]].
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (1782)|Raid on Lunenburg]]: American [[privateer]]s attack the British settlement at [[Lunenburg, Nova Scotia]].
* [[July 16]]&ndash;[[August 29]] &ndash; The Masonic Congress of Wilhelmsbad, [[Germany]], one of history's most important ever secret society congresses, takes place. High-degree Freemasons from the whole of Europe spend the time deliberating the fate of the rite of Strict Observance, and hierarchy of the governing bodies of world [[Freemasonry]], at the [[Hanau]]-Wilhelmsbad spa.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2015/07/06/masonic-congress-of-wilhelmsbad/|title=Masonic Congress of Wilhelmsbad|first=Terry|last=Melanson}}</ref>
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]'s opera ''[[Die Entführung aus dem Serail]]'' premieres at the [[Burgtheater]] in [[Vienna]].
* [[August 7]]
** [[George Washington]] orders the creation of the [[Badge of Military Merit]] (or the [[Order of the Purple Heart]]) to honor soldiers' merit in battle (reinstated later by [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], and renamed to the more poetic "[[Purple Heart]]", to honor soldiers wounded in action).
** [[Étienne Maurice Falconet]]'s ''[[Bronze Horseman]]'' statue of Tsar Peter the Great is unveiled in [[Saint Petersburg]].
* [[August 19]] &ndash; A combined British and Native American force defeat [[Kentucky]] militiamen in the [[Battle of Blue Licks]] in the last major battle of the [[American Revolutionary War]].