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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 9]] &ndash; (27 [[Dhu al-Qadah]] 803 [[Islamic calendar|A.H.]]) [[Timur]] raids the city of [[Baghdad]], in the [[Jalayirid]] Empire, then carries out a massacre of its inhabitants, including women and children, as punishment for resisting his rule. According to accounts later, "90,000 human heads were piled up on the public places of the town."<ref>"Timur, Sultan", in ''Biography or Third Division of The English Cyclopedia'', Volume 6, ed. by Charles Knight (Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1868) p.77</ref> The only persons spared death are "theologians, shaikhs and dervishes", and the only buildings not demolished are "mosques, universities and hostels."<ref>"Timur in Iran", by H. R. Roemer, in ''The Cambridge History of Iran'', Volume 6, ed. by Peter Jackson and Laurence Lockhart  (Cambridge University Press, 1968) p.66</ref>
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Jingnan campaign]]: [[Ming dynasty|Chinese Empire]] troops, led by [[Fang Zhao]], launch a raid on the Yan principality capital at Beiping, forcing Yan PrinceZhu Di to bring his troops back north.<ref name=Taizong/>
* [[August 5]] &ndash; The [[County of Geneva]], located in southeastern France in the [[Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes]] region, comes to an end after more than 300 years when it is sold to [[Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy|Amadeus VIII, Count of Savoy]] for 45,000 gold francs<ref>{{cite book |last=Demotz |first=Bernard  |date=2000 |title= Le comté de Savoie du XI au XV |publisher= Slatkine}}</ref>
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Jingnan campaign]]: The Yan principality defeats the Chinese imperial forces at Beiping after a siege of more than two months.<ref>''Ming Tongjian'', Volume 12</ref>
* [[September 24]] &ndash; The late English cleric [[John Twenge]] (1320-1379) is [[canonisation|canonized]] as Saint John of Bridlington by [[Pope Boniface IX]]