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 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. October–December October 7 – is wrecked on Scaterie Island, Nova Scotia with the loss of 102 lives. October 11 – 245 people are killed in a crush on the in Lyon, France, caused when a large crowd returning from a festival on the other side of the Rhône become trapped against an obstruction in the middle of the bridge caused by a collision between a carriage and a cart. October 14 Yostos kills Tewoflos, becoming Emperor of Ethiopia. Woodes Rogers returns to England after a successful round-the-world privateering cruise against Spain, carrying loot worth £150,000. October 16 – Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts is established in Brussels. November 5 – The southwest spire of Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire, England is struck by lightning, resulting in a fire that spreads to the nave and tower, destroying roofs, bells, clock and organ. November 7 – The Dutch East India Company ship Liefde runs aground and sinks off Out Skerries, Shetland, with the loss of all but one of her 300 crew. December 5 – Great Northern War: the Battle of Wismar results in a Danish victory over Swedish forces. December 7 – In the Parliament of Great Britain the Earl of Nottingham successfully proposes a "No Peace Without Spain" amendment. December 8 – The Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Comayagua in Honduras, one of the oldest cathedrals in Central America, is inaugurated. December 12 – A constitution is approved for the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna, which had been founded in 1690. December 13 – Wall Street in New York City becomes the city's first official slave market for the sale and rental of enslaved Africans and Indians. December 15 – The Old