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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 5]]
**Pedro Cebrian y Agustin, Count of Fuenclara, arrives at Veracruz to become the new Spanish [[Viceroy of New Spain]].<ref>Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci, ''Idea of a New General History of North America: An Account of Colonial Native Mexico'' (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015) p6 </ref>
**[[Pennsylvania]]'s Colonial Governor [[Sir George Thomas, 1st Baronet|George Thomas]] bars citizens from settling in Lancaster County, or west of the Blue Mountains.<ref>Lois Mulkearn, ed., ''George Mercer Papers: Relating to the Ohio Company of Virginia'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1954) p657</ref>
* [[November 13]] &ndash; The [[Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters]] is founded. 
* [[December 2]] &ndash; The ''[[Pennsylvania Journal]]'' first appears in the United States.