Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. July–September July 14 – Convention of London between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain: British settlements on the Mosquito Coast of Central America are to be evacuated; Spain expands the territory available to the British in Belize on the Yucatán Peninsula, for cutting mahogany. July 31 – The 'Kilmarnock volume' of Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is published in Scotland. August James Rumsey tests his first steamboat on the Potomac River, at Shepherdstown, Virginia. The Cabinet of Great Britain approves the establishment of a penal colony, at Botany Bay in Australia. August 1 – Caroline Herschel discovers a comet (the first discovered by a woman) from England. August 8 – Mont Blanc is climbed for the first time, by Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat. August 11 – Captain Francis Light acquires the island of Penang from the Sultan of Kedah on behalf of the British East India Company, renaming it Prince of Wales Island in honour of the heir to the British throne, and establishing the settlement of George Town. This is the first colony of the British Empire in Southeast Asia. August 17 – Frederick William, the paternal nephew of Frederick the Great, becomes King of Prussia as Frederick William II. August 18 – The Kingdom of Denmark (including Norway) charters six settlements in Iceland to trade with it, thus ending the Danish–Icelandic Trade Monopoly, and founding Reykjavík. August 29 – Shays' Rebellion begins in Massachusetts. September–December – Goethe undertakes his Italian Journey (published in 1817). September 2 – A hurricane strikes Barbados. September 11–14 – The Annapolis Convention is held by delegates from six of the 13 states (Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and New York) resulting in the scheduling of the Philadelphia Convention to draft a national constitution. September 14 – Connecticut cedes to the United States all of its claims to lands between the 41st and 42nd parallels north and west of the Connecticut Western Reserve. September 26 – Eden Agreement: A commercial treaty is signed between the Kingdoms of Great Britain and France. October–December October 6 – HMS Bellerophon begins service with the Royal Navy. October 10 – The Confederation Congress of the United States directs backpay for seven months for Virginia officers who have been waiting since 1782. October 12 – King George III of the United Kingdom appoints