Editing 1561 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Saint Basil's Cathedral]] in Moscow (started in [[1534]]) is finished.
* [[July]] &ndash; [[Arauco War]]: The hated [[encomendero]] [[Pedro de Avendaño]] and two other Spaniards are killed, triggering the Second Great Rebellion of the [[Mapuche]].
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], is denied passage through England after returning from [[Kingdom of France|France]]. She arrives at [[Leith]], [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] later the same day.
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[English people|English]] merchant [[Anthony Jenkinson]] arrives in [[Moscow]] on his second expedition to the [[Grand Duchy of Moscow]].<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Early_Voyages_and_Travels_to_Russia_and/4oxPAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=maiesties+presence+jenkinson&pg=PA125&printsec=frontcover'' Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia, by Anthony Jenkinson and Other Englishmen, With Some Account of the First Intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by Way of the Caspian Sea''], ed. by E. Delmar Morgan and C. H. Coote · Volume 1 (Burt Franklin, Publisher, 1886)("on the eight day of August then following I came to Vologda... I therewith departed toward the citie of Moscovia and came thither the twentieth day of the same moneth...") p.122</ref>
* [[September 2]] &ndash; The [[Entry of Mary, Queen of Scots into Edinburgh]], a civic celebration for the Queen of Scotland, is marred by religious controversy.<ref>A. R. MacDonald, 'The Triumph of Protestantism: the burgh council of Edinburgh and the entry of Mary Queen of Scots', ''Innes Review'', 48:1 (Spring 1997), pp. 73-82.</ref>
* [[September 28]] &ndash; An inconclusive three day debate begins in [[Maybole]], [[Ayrshire]], Scotland between Protestant reformer [[John Knox]] and [[Quintin Kennedy]], [[commendator]] of Crossraguel Abbey, on [[transubstantiation]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=uQ5KAAAAMAAJ&dq=Maybole+1561+Kennedy+Knox+September&pg=PA15 "Maybole"] in ''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical'' · Volume 5, ed. by Francis H. Groome (T. C. Jack, 1884) p.15</ref> The Reformation, confirmed by the Scottish government in [[1560]], continues.