Editing 1696 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 18]] &ndash; Azov campaign: The Russian fleet occupies [[Azov]] at the mouth of the [[Don (river)|river Don]].
* [[August 13]] &ndash; The Dutch state of [[Drenthe]] makes [[William III of England|William III of Orange]] its [[Stadtholder]].
* [[August 22]] &ndash; Forces of the [[Republic of Venice]] and the [[Ottoman Empire]] [[Battle of Andros (1696)|clash near Andros]].
* [[August 29]] &ndash; King [[Louis XIV]] of France and [[Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia|Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy]], sign the [[Treaty of Turin (1696)|Treaty of Turin]], ending Savoy's involvement in the [[Nine Years' War]].
* [[September 8]] &ndash; The [[Parliament of Scotland]] passes the [[Education Act 1696]], providing for locally funded, Church-supervised schools to be established in every parish in Scotland.
* [[September 11]] &ndash; England's Royal Navy [[scuttling|scuttles]] and deliberately sinks its 32-gun battleship [[HMS Sapphire (1675)|HMS ''Sapphire'']] in [[Bay Bulls, Newfoundland and Labrador|Bay Bulls Harbour]] in [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]], rather than let it be captured by the French Navy following a disastrous battle. 
* [[September 17]] &ndash; On Canada's [[Hudson Bay]], the English Navy recaptures the [[York Factory]] from France, three years [[Capture of York Factory|after the French had captured it]], and renamed the site "Fort Bourbon".<ref>Georges Dugas, ''The Canadian West: Its Discovery by the Sieur de La Vérendrye'' (. Its Development by the Fur-trading Companies, Down to the Year 1822" (Librairie Beauchemin Ltd., 1905) p. 30</ref>