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=== July–September ===
* [[July 1]] – The Swiss watch company [[Tissot]] is founded.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tissot - The Watch Brand 2020|website = [[YouTube]]| date=January 10, 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY5PW_JJQGc#t=50s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/VY5PW_JJQGc| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[July 8]] – U.S. Commodore [[Matthew C. Perry]] arrives in Edo Bay, Japan, with a request for a trade treaty.
* [[July 14]] – Japan allows U.S. Commodore Perry to come ashore and begin negotiations.
* [[July 25]] – Outlaw and bandit [[Joaquin Murrieta]] is killed in [[California]].
* [[July 27]] – [[Tokugawa Iesada|Iesada]] succeeds his father [[Tokugawa Ieyoshi|Ieyoshi]] as Japanese ''[[shōgun]]''. The [[Late Tokugawa shogunate]] (the last part of the [[Edo period]] in Japan) begins.
* [[August 12]] – New Zealand acquires self-government.
* [[August 23]] – The first true [[International Meteorological Organization]] is established in Brussels, Belgium.
* [[August 24]]
** [[Potato chips]] are first prepared, by [[George Crum]] at [[Saratoga Springs, New York]], according to popular accounts.
** The [[Royal Norwegian Navy Museum]] is founded at [[Karljohansvern]] in [[Horten (town)|Horten]], perhaps the world's first naval museum.
* [[September 19]] – [[Hudson Taylor]] first leaves for China.
* [[September 20]] &ndash; Otis Elevator, as predecessor of [[Otis Worldwide]], was founded in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Otis Opened Elevator Factory|url=http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_otis_1.html|access-date=2021-01-18|website=www.americaslibrary.gov}}</ref>