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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 7]] &ndash; Spanish conquistador [[Francisco Vázquez de Coronado]] captures [[Hawikuh Ruins|Hawikuh]] in modern-day New Mexico, at this time known as part of [[Zuni-Cibola Complex|Cíbola]], but fails to find the legendary gold.
* [[July 9]] &ndash; King [[Henry VIII of England]]'s marriage to [[Anne of Cleves]], his fourth [[Queen consort]], is [[annulled]].<ref name="Routh1990">{{cite book|first=C. R. N.|last=Routh|title=Who's who in Tudor England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MltmAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Shepheard-Walwyn|isbn=978-0-85683-093-8|pages=48–49}}</ref>
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Thomas Cromwell]], is executed for [[treason]] on the orders of king [[Henry VIII of England]]. Henry marries his fifth wife, [[Catherine Howard]], on the same day.<ref name="Routh1990"/>
* [[August 15]] &ndash; In [[Peru]], Spanish captain [[Garcí Manuel de Carbajal]] founds the Villa Hermosa de [[Arequipa]]; one year later, [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] of Germany and I of Spain will give the valley a status of 'city' by royal decree.
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Gelawdewos]] succeeds his father [[Lebna Dengel]] as [[Emperor of Ethiopia]].
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Gibraltar]] is sacked by the fleet of [[Barbary pirate]] Ali Hamet, a [[Sardinia]]n [[Turncoat|renegade]] in the service of the [[Ottoman Empire]], and many of its leading citizens are taken as captives to [[Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera]] in [[Morocco]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=David|last1=Thomas |first2=John|last2=Chesworth |title=Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History|year=2017 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004281110 |page=217}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Drinkwater|first=John|authorlink=John Drinkwater Bethune|title=A history of the late siege of Gibraltar: With a description and account of that garrison, from the earliest periods|url=https://archive.org/details/historyoflatesie00drin|access-date=2012-10-27|year=1786|publisher=Printed by T. Spilsbury|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyoflatesie00drin/page/8 8]}}</ref> This leads to construction of the defensive [[Charles V Wall]], at this time known as the ''Muralla de San Benito''.
* [[September 27]] &ndash; The [[Society of Jesus]] (Jesuits) is approved by [[Pope Paul III]], in his bull ''[[Regimini militantis Ecclesiae]]''.