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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Roanoke Colony]]: A group of English settlers arrive on [[Roanoke Island]] off [[North Carolina]], to re-establish the deserted colony.<ref>{{cite book|author=Travis Elborough|title=Atlas of Vanishing Places: The lost worlds as they were and as they are today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UqOfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA79|date=17 September 2019|publisher=White Lion Publishing|isbn=978-1-78131-895-9|pages=79}}</ref>
* [[August 18]] &ndash; According to legend, [[Saul Wahl]] is named king of Poland; he is deposed the following day.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_XspAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA566 |title=Medieval Jewish Statesman|last=Wasserzug|first=D.|year=1904|work=New Era Illustrated Magazine|pages=564–574|access-date=4 October 2010}}</ref>  
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Poland|Polish]] and [[Lithuania]]n nobles elect [[Sigismund III Vasa]], King of Sweden, as the ruler of the after the death in December of the previous King of Poland and Duke of Lithuania, [[Stephen Báthory]].<ref>{{cite book|author=R. Nisbet Bain|title=Slavonic Europe: A Political History of Poland and Russia from 1447 to 1796|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xi3IFuapWOwC&pg=PA102|date=13 June 2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-63691-0|pages=102}}</ref>
* [[August 22]] &ndash; A small group of nobles who oppose Sigismund Vasa as King vote to proclaim [[Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria]], as ruler of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], a decision supported by the [[List of archbishops of Gniezno and primates of Poland|Primate of Poland]], [[Stanisław Karnkowski]]. The divide begins the [[War of the Polish Succession (1587–1588)|War of the Polish Succession]].<ref>Daniel Stone, ''The Polish-Lithuanian state, 1386-1795'' (University of Washington Press, 2001) pp. 131–132</ref>
* [[August 27]] &ndash; Governor John White leaves the [[Roanoke Colony]] to get more supplies from [[Kingdom of England|England]].
* [[September 9]] &ndash; In the [[Burgundian Netherlands]] (now part of [[Belgium]]), the faculty at the [[Old University of Leuven|University of Leuven]] publishes a condemnation of the 34 propositions drawn up by the [[Jesuit]] scholar [[Michel Baius]], leading to a campaign by traditional Belgian Catholics against the Jesuits.<ref>"Congregatio de Auxiliis", by Antonio Astrain, ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'' (Robert Appleton Company, 1913)</ref> 
* [[September 22]] &ndash; In Italy, the coronation of [[Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua|Vincenzo Gonzaga]] as [[Duke of Mantua]] takes place.
* [[September 28]] &ndash; At [[Gremi]] in what is now the [[Republic of Georgia]], [[Alexander II of Kakheti|King Alexander II]] of [[Kingdom of Kakheti|Kakheti]] signs an oath of allegiance to [[Feodor I of Russia|Feodor I]], the [[Tsar of all Russia]].<ref>W.E.D. Allen, ''Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)'' (Cambridge University Press, 1970) pp.60-61</ref>