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=== July–September ===
* [[July 14]] – Scottish poet [[Alexander Montgomerie]] is declared an [[outlaw]], after the collapse of a Catholic plot.
* [[July 28]] – After the performance of the satirical play ''[[The Isle of Dogs (play)|The Isle of Dogs]]'', written by [[Thomas Nashe]] and [[Ben Jonson]], at the [[The Swan (theatre)|Swan Theatre]], the [[Privy Council of England]] concludes that the "lewd play" is full of [[sedition|seditious]] and [[slander|slanderous]] matter. Jonson is arrested, along with two actors, [[Gabriel Spenser]] and Robert Shaa, and the three are sent to [[Marshalsea Prison]]. A raid on the home of Thomas Nashe seizes his papers, but Nashe is not found. The three prisoners are released later in the year and return to the stage. All copies of ''The Isle of Dogs'' script are destroyed.
* [[August 13]] – The [[Siege of Namwon]] begins in [[Korea]].
* [[August 14]] – [[First Dutch Expedition to Indonesia]]: A [[Netherlands|Dutch]] expedition commanded by [[Cornelis de Houtman]] returns to [[Amsterdam]], after having successfully reached [[Java]]. This achievement opens the [[Spice trade]], which had until then been monopolised by the [[Portugal|Portuguese]], to the Dutch, who in the next years launch several more expeditions to the Indies.
* [[August 17]] – [[Islands Voyage]]: [[Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex]], and Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] set sail on an expedition to the [[Azores]].
* [[August 19]] – [[Siege of Rheinberg (1597)|Rheinberg capitulates]] to forces led by Maurice of Naussau.
* [[August 24]] – [[Christian IV of Denmark|Christian IV of Denmark-Norway]] refuses to let [[Tycho Brahe]] return to [[Denmark]].
* [[August 28]] – [[Imjin War]]: [[Battle of Chilcheollyang]] – The [[Japan]]ese fleet defeats the [[Korea]]ns, in their only naval victory of the war.<ref>{{cite book|author=DK|title=War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Llw8JSZEXYC&pg=PA403|date=1 October 2009|publisher=Dorling Kindersley Limited|isbn=978-1-4053-4778-5|pages=403|language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 25]] – [[Siege of Amiens (1597)|Amiens is retaken]] from the Spanish by Anglo-French forces, led by [[Henry IV of France]], after a four-month siege.