Editing 1612 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 4]] &ndash; (8th waxing of [[Waso]] 974 [[Burmese calendar|ME]]) In what is now [[Myanmar]], [[Min Khamaung]] becomes the new [[List of Burmese monarchs#Mrauk-U (1429–1785)|King of Arakan]] upon the death of his father, King [[Min Razagyi]].  
* [[July 22]] &ndash; Four women and one man are hanged following the [[Northamptonshire witch trials]] in England.
* [[July 24]] &ndash; [[Marcantonio Memmo]] is elected as the [[Doge of Venice|Doge]] of the [[Republic of Venice]] on the first ballot of the Venetian council, winning 38 of the 41 votes. Memmo succeeds the late Doge [[Leonardo Donato]], who died on July 16.
* [[August 20]] &ndash; Ten ''[[Pendle witches]]'' are hanged, having been found guilty of practising witchcraft in [[Lancashire]] in England.
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Battle of Kringen]]: A Scottish mercenary force is destroyed in Norway.
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Battle of Moscow (1612)]]: Led by General [[Jan Karol Chodkiewicz]], a relief force from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, whose troops had been occupying [[Moscow]] for two years, make an unsuccessful attempt to break the Russian siege of the [[Kremlin]], where General [[Mikolaj Strus]] and his troops are trapped. Both the Russians (led by [[Dmitry Pozharsky]]) and the Commonwealth troops suffer at least 1,000 deaths, but the Russians prevail. General Chodkiewicz tries a second attack the next day and fails. 
* [[September 2]] (August 23 O.S.) &ndash; The [[Duchy of Prussia|Lutheran Duchy of Prussia]], a fiefdom within Poland, becomes the first [[Protestantism|Protestant]] government to follow the Roman Catholic nations in [[adoption of the Gregorian calendar|adopting the Gregorian calendar]].
* [[September 5]] &ndash; England's [[East India Company]] gets its first warships and establishes the "'Honourable East India Company's Marine'" to protect its freighters. The force develops over the centuries into the [[Royal Indian Navy]] and, after India's independence in 1947, the [[Indian Navy]]. 
* [[September 22]] &ndash; Retreating Polish and Lithuanian troops burn the Russian city of [[Vologda]] in reprisal for their defeat at Moscow.