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===July–September=== * [[July 2]] – [[Cary's Rebellion]]: Lieutenant Governor [[Alexander Spotswood]] of Virginia dispatches a company of Royal Marines to assist Governor Hyde. After hearing of this, Cary's troops abandon all of their fortifications along the [[Pamlico River]]. Cary and many of his supporters are soon caught and sent to England as prisoners, ending Cary's Rebellion.<ref>{{cite book|author=C. Wingate Reed|title=Beaufort County: Two Centuries of Its History.|date=1962|page=63}}</ref> * [[July 11]] – The town of [[São Paulo]], Brazil, is elevated to city status. * [[July 21]] – The [[Treaty of the Pruth]] is signed between the [[Ottoman Empire]] and [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]], ending the [[Pruth River Campaign]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Military-naval Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union|author=David R. Jones|publisher=Academic International Press|year=1978|page=13}}</ref> * [[July 29]] – Total lunar eclipse at 17:50 [[Universal Time|UT]]. * [[August 1]] – The [[Dutch East India Company]] trading ship ''[[Zuytdorp]]'' leaves the [[Netherlands]] on an ill-fated voyage to [[Indonesia]] bearing a load of freshly minted silver coins. The wreck site remains unknown until the mid-20th century, on a remote part of the [[Western Australia]]n coast between [[Kalbarri, Western Australia|Kalbarri]] and [[Shark Bay]]. * [[August 7]] – [[Capture of the galleon San Joaquin|Capture of the galleon ''San Joaquin'']]: Spanish galleon ''San Joaquin'' in a treasure fleet sailing from [[Cartagena de Indias]] (modern-day Colombia) to Spain surrenders after an engagement with five British ships. * [[August 9]] – [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough]] with an army of 30,000 [[Siege of Bouchain (1711)|besieges Bouchain]] in the [[War of the Spanish Succession]]. The siege lasts 34 days and results in the last major victory for Churchill. * [[August 11]] – The first horse race is held at the newly founded [[Ascot Racecourse]], which becomes one of the leading racecourses in England. * [[August 13]] – Tamachi Raisinhji becomes [[Jam Sahib]] (ruling prince) of [[Nawanagar State]] in [[Gujarat]], India. * [[August 14]] – The inauguration of the newly built [[Cathedral of the Assumption, Gozo|Cathedral of the Assumption]] takes place in [[Gozo]], [[Malta]]. * [[August 22]] – The [[Quebec expedition (1711)|Quebec Expedition]], a British attempt to attack [[Quebec City|Quebec]] as part of [[Queen Anne's War]], fails when 8 of its ships are wrecked in the [[Saint Lawrence River]] and 890 people, mostly soldiers, drown. * [[September 8]] – The [[South Sea Company]] receives a [[Royal Charter]] in Britain.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/page44.asp|title=Royal Charters, Privy Council website|access-date=2007-08-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824225331/http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/Page44.asp |archive-date=August 24, 2007<!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref> * [[September 10]] (also dated [[September 12]]) – [[John Lawson (explorer)|John Lawson]], [[Christoph von Graffenried]], two [[African American]] slaves and two [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]]s leave on an exploration expedition from [[New Bern, North Carolina]], and travel north by canoe up the [[Neuse River]]. * [[September 14]] (approximate date) – Tuscarora natives capture John Lawson, Christoph von Graffenried and their expeditionary party, and bring them to Catechna. * [[September 16]] (approximate date) – Tuscarora natives kill Lawson. Von Graffenried and one [[African American]] slave are known to have been set free. * [[September 18]] – Bishop Bogusław Gosiewski sells the town of [[Maladzyechna]] in the [[Minsk Region]] of [[Belarus]] to the mighty [[Ogiński]] family. * [[September 22]] – The [[Tuscarora War]] begins when [[Tuscarora people|Tuscarora]] natives under the command of Chief Hancock raid settlements along the south bank of the Pamlico River, within the Province of Carolina (modern-day North Carolina), killing around 130 people.
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