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=== July–September ===
* [[July 10]] – John Barrose, a Burgundian fencer who has challenged all comers and killed several, is hanged for murder. Barrose's story is dramatized by playwright [[Ben Jonson]] in ''[[Every Man in His Humour]]''.
* [[July 12]] – After fording the Rio Grande near what are now the Mexican city of Juarez and the U.S. city of El Paso, [[Juan de Oñate]] proclaims the founding of the colony of [[Santa Fe de Nuevo Méjico]] (Santa Fe of New Mexico), with himself as the first Viceroy. Oñate establishes the first capital of the New Mexico viceroyalty at a new village, [[Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico|San Juan de los Caballeros]], near the [[Pueblo people|Pueblo Indian]] city of Ohkay Owingeh, now located in [[Rio Arriba County, New Mexico]].
* [[July 13]] – A marriage contract is signed as part of the treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye between [[Henry IV of France|King Henry IV]] of France and [[Charles III, Duke of Lorraine]], providing for King Henry's niece, [[Catherine of Bourbon]], to marry Duke Charles's son, [[Henry II, Duke of Lorraine|Henry of Lorraine]].<ref name=Roelker>[[Nancy Lyman Roelker]], ''Queen of Navarre: Jeanne d'Albret, 1528-1572'' (Harvard University Press, 1968) p. xiv</ref>
* [[July 22]] – [[William Shakespeare]] registers the rights to his new play, ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', in the Register of the Stationers Company, under the title ''The Marchaunt of Venyce or otherwise called The Jewe of Venyce''.<ref>[https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/resource/document/stationers-register-entry-merchant-venice "Stationers' Register entry for The Merchant of Venice"], ''Shakespeare Documented'' (Folger Shakespeare Library)</ref>
* [[July 23]] – [[Sigismund III Vasa]], King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, departs from [[Gdańsk]] with 80 transports, several warships and exiled members of the Swedish parliament to invade Sweden. The troops land at [[Kalmar]] on July 31, and secure its surrender.<ref>Gary Dean Peterson, ''Warrior Kings of Sweden: The Rise of an Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'' (McFarland, 2014) p.105</ref>
* [[July]] – Philosopher [[Tommaso Campanella]] moves from Naples to [[Calabria]], where he will be involved in a revolt against the rule of the Spanish [[viceroy]] the following year.<ref>{{cite book|author=Tommaso Campanella|title=Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella: A Bilingual Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-gg7nHUNGeoC&pg=PA6|date=March 30, 2011|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-09205-8|pages=6}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] – [[Battle of the Yellow Ford]] in Ireland: [[Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone]], gains victory over an English expeditionary force under [[Henry Bagenal]], in the [[Nine Years' War (Ireland)|Nine Years' War]] against English rule.
* [[August 16]] ([[Keichō]] 3, 15th day of the 7th month) – The Council of Five Elders, to serve in Japan as regents after the death of General Hideyoshi, is gathered at Fushimi on orders of Hideyoshi, and the members vow their allegiance to Hideyoshi's son, Hideyori.<ref name=Berry>Mary Elizabeth Berry, ''Hideyoshi'' (Harvard University Press, 1982) pp. 139, 235</ref>
* [[September 2]] – The Mahu expedition from the Dutch Republic arrives at the [[Cape Verde Islands]] off of the coast of Africa, and many of the men become fatally ill, including Captain Jacques Mahu, who dies on September 23. 
* [[September 5]] ([[Keichō]] 3, 5th day of the 8th month) – With his own death imminent, General Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Japan issues an order directing the [[Council of Five Elders]] to bring their children to the Osaka Castle to join Hideyoshi's designated successor, his son Hideyori.<ref name=Berry/> 
* [[September 10]] – [[Michael the Brave|Prince Michael II of Wallachia]] begins the siege of [[Nikopol, Bulgaria|Nicopolis]] (now Nikopol in Bulgaria).  
* [[September 13]] – [[Philip III of Spain|Philip III]] becomes the new [[King of Spain]] upon the death of his father.
* [[September 17]] – [[Second Dutch Expedition to Indonesia]]: [[Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck]] and three ships commanded by him are separated from the [[Dutch Republic]] fleet of Admiral [[:nl:Wybrand van Warwijck|Wybrand van Warwyck]], and land on a Portuguese-charted island, Ilha do Cisne. Van Neck names the island [[Mauritius]], after [[Maurice, Prince of Orange]]. Although [[Diogo Fernandes Pereira]] and sailors from Portugal had, in 1507, become the first Europeans to find Mauritius, van Neck's men apparently are the first to sight the [[dodo]], a now extinct bird. 
* [[September 18]] ([[Keichō]] 3, 18th day of the 8th month) – General [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], who united Japan and became the Chancellor of the Realm, dies after ruling 12 years. He is nominally succeeded by his 5-year-old son, [[Toyotomi Hideyori]], with the regency exercised by the [[Council of Five Elders]]. 
* [[September 25]] – [[Battle of Stångebro]] at [[Linköping]] in [[Sweden]]: The Catholic King [[Sigismund III Vasa|Sigismund of Sweden and Poland]] is defeated in his attempt to resume control of Sweden by the Protestant forces of his uncle, [[Charles IX of Sweden|Charles]]. Sigismund is deposed shortly thereafter.<ref>{{cite book|author=Harry S. Ashmore|title=Encyclopaedia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=22_05cxLB50C|year=1962|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|page=279|language=en}}</ref>