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=== July–September === * [[July 8]] – The first documented [[tornado]] in America kills a servant at [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. * [[August 10]] – A [[Puebloans|Pueblo]] medicine man named Popé begins an attack by the Puebloans and their Apache allies on Spanish outposts throughout what is the modern-day U.S. state of [[New Mexico]], choosing the campaign to begin before a supply caravan can reach the Spaniards.<ref name=Meschke>"Pueblo Revolt", by Amy Meschke, in ''Encyclopedia of Leadership'' (Sage Publications, 2004) p. 1277</ref> * [[August 20]] (August 10 [[Old Style]]) – The settlement of [[Karlskrona]] in Sweden is founded,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blt.se/karlskrona/grattis-karlskrona-337-ar/|title=Grattis Karlskrona, 337 år!|publisher=Blekinge läns tidning|language=sv|date=10 August 2017|access-date=10 August 2018}}</ref> as the [[Royal Swedish Navy]] relocates there. * [[August 21]] – In the [[Pueblo Revolt]], the native [[Puebloans|Pueblo people]] capture [[Santa Fe (New Mexico)|Santa Fe]] (now in New Mexico) from the [[Spain|Spanish]] colonists. * [[August 24]] – [[Comédie-Française]] is founded by decree of [[Louis XIV of France]] as ''La maison de Molière'' in [[Paris]]. * [[September 15]] **A four month truce between [[England]] and [[Morocco]] expires and the Alcaid Omar, Viceroy of Morocco, begins a bombardment of the English fort at [[Tangier]].<ref>John Childs, ''General Percy Kirke and the Later Stuart Army'' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) p. 35</ref> **A [[Capitulation (treaty)|treaty]] is concluded between the Dutch Republic and the Ottoman Empire for Ottoman Sultan [[Mehmed IV]] and his subjects to apply Dutch law to Dutch visitors to Ottoman territory.<ref>"The peace treaties of the Ottoman Empire with European Christian powers", by Karl-Heinz Ziegler, in ''Peace Treaties and International Law in European History: From the Late Middle Ages to World War One'', ed. by Randall Lesaffer (Cambridge University Press, 2004) p. 349</ref> * [[September 21]] – Spanish troops make a counterattack on [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]] in the modern-day U.S. state of New Mexico, allowing the remaining Spanish troops in the besieged city to flee to [[El Paso, Texas|El Paso]] (now in Texas).<ref name=Meschke/> * [[September 30]] – [[Robert Boyle]], having rediscovered the process of manufacturing [[phosphorus]] from bone ash, deposits his summary of the directions with [[Royal Society|The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge]].<ref>N.C. Datta, ''The Story of Chemistry'' (Universities Press, 2005) p. 74</ref> Boyle's assistant, [[Ambrose Godfrey]], later develops Boyle's discovery to produce phosphorus commercially.
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