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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 4]] &ndash; [[Alonso de Solís]], who was appointed by Spain as Governor of the colony of [[List of colonial governors of Florida|La Florida]], is killed in the colonial capital at [[St. Augustine, Florida|San Augustin]], now the U.S. city of St. Augustine, Florida.
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of England|English]] navigator [[Martin Frobisher]] sights [[Greenland]].
* [[July 12]] &ndash; The [[Mughal Empire]] annexes [[Bengal]] after defeating the [[Bengal Sultanate]] at the ''[[Battle of Rajmahal]]''.<ref name="Richards1996">{{cite book|last=Richards |first=John F.|date=1996|title=The Mughal Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHyVh29gy4QC&pg=PA33|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=33|isbn=978-0-521-56603-2}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] &ndash; Rebellious Spanish troops [[:nl:Plundering van Aalst|plunder the Flemish city]] of [[Aalst, Belgium|Aalst]] and then use it as their base of operations to attack other cities.
* [[July 29]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Zierikzee]] in the Netherlands ends with the surrender of the defenders to the Spanish Army.
* [[August 11]] &ndash; English navigator [[Martin Frobisher]], on his search for the [[Northwest Passage]] through North America, enters the [[Frobisher Bay|bay now named after him]] in Canada.
* [[August 23]] &ndash; On the island of [[Kyūshū]] in [[Japan]], near what is now [[Takaharu, Miyazaki]] prefecture, [[:ja:高原城|Takahara Castle]] of the [[Itō clan]] is captured by 30,000 men led by the warlord [[Shimazu Yoshihisa]], after a siege of four days.
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Ismail II|Ismail Mirza]], who has proclaimed himself the Shah of [[Safavid Iran]], marches into the capital at [[Qazvin]] and ascends the throne as Shah Ismail II.<ref name=Ghereghlou>"Esmāʿil II", in ''Encyclopædia Iranica'', ed. by Kioumars Ghereghlou (2016)</ref>
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Simeon Bekbulatovich]], who has served since the previous October as the Grand Prince of All Russia after the [[Ivan the Terrible|Tsar Ivan IV]] ("Ivan the Terrible") had taken leave of absence from the throne, steps down as Ivan returns to Moscow. Ivan rewards Bekbulatovich with the title of Grand Prince of Tver.
* [[September 4]] &ndash; In [[Brussels]], rebels led by Jacques de Glymes of Brabant arrest the members of the Council of State that administers the city. 
* [[September 8]] &ndash; The [[States General of the Netherlands]] is convened by the leaders of the [[States of Brabant]] and the [[County of Hainaut]] in order to respond to mutineering Spanish troops. 
* [[September 10]] &ndash; After a siege that has lasted a year and two days, the Spanish Army abandons its siege of the Dutch city of [[Woerden]].
* [[September 16]] &ndash; The States of Flanders convene a meeting near [[Ghent]], where the Roman Catholic clergy, led by Martinus Rythovius, insist on measures to protect the practice of the Catholic faith in the predominantly Protestant Low Countries.