2,000 Russians and wounding as many as 3,000. July 31 – The Battle of Warsaw is fought near Warsaw, Poland in the Great Northern War. August 16–18 – In an Atlantic tropical cyclone across Cuba and Florida, four ships are lost and there are many casualties. August 31–September 5 – War of the Spanish Succession: The Siege of Zoutleeuw is carried out by the alliance of Dutch, English, Scottish and Holy Roman Empire troops against the French-held fortress of Zoutleeuw (in modern-day Belgium) September 17 – First Javanese War of Succession: On the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia), Pakubuwono I becomes the new Sultan of Martaram, capturing Kartosuro and deposing Sultan Amangkurat III. September 20 – Francis II Rákóczi is proclaimed as the ruler of Hungary by independence activists in Szécsény who are opposed to the rule of the Habsburg successor to Leopold I, the Holy Roman emperor Joseph I. September 24 (O.S.) – Stanisław Leszczyński is crowned as King of Poland. October–December October 3 – Thirty-one people are killed in a colliery explosion at the Stony Flatt pit in Gateshead, Northumberland, England. October 4 (N.S.) – Stanisław Leszczyński is crowned Stanisław I of Poland. November – In Williamsburg, capital of the Colony of Virginia in America, construction of the Capitol Building is completed. November 5 – The Dublin Gazette of Ireland publishes its first edition. November 15 – Battle of Zsibó: The Austrian-Danish forces defeat the Kurucs (Hungarians). November 16 – An annular solar eclipse is visible in the southern Atlantic Ocean. November 23 – The premiere of the play Ulysses by Nicholas Rowe takes place in London. November 24 – An earthquake is recorded in Syria, northeast of Damascus. November 28 – The Treaty of Warsaw was concluded between the Swedish Empire and the faction of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth loyal to Stanisław Leszczyński during the Great Northern War. December – The Sophia Naturalization Act is passed by the English Parliament, which naturalizes Sophia of Hanover and the "issue of her body" as English subjects. December 13 – In the Battle of Saint Gotthard, the Hungarian army is victorious. December 25 – In Munich, capital of Bavaria, 1,100 militiamen from the Oberland are killed during the Sendlinger Mordweihnacht, after a failed attempt to break through several gates and capture a depot to seize better weaponry; many men were slaughtered by German federal infantry and