Editing 1624 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 30]] &ndash; A contingent of 5,000 Chinese troops and 50 warships under the command of Admiral [[Yu Zigao]] and General Wang Mengxiong [[Sino-Dutch conflicts#1620s|attacks the Dutch fortress]] at the island of Magong, the largest of the [[Penghu]] islands under the command of [[Martinus Sonck]].  Outnumbered, the Dutch surrender in five days.  
* [[August 4]] &ndash; The [[Dutch East India Company]] agrees to Chinese demands to withdraw its operations from the [[Penghu]] islands, and relocates its trading post to [[Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)|Fort Zeelandia]] and the Dutch-controlled island of [[Dutch Formosa|Formosa]], now [[Tainan]] on [[Taiwan]].  
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[King's Men (playing company)|The King's Men]] perform [[Thomas Middleton]]'s [[satire]] ''[[A Game at Chess]]'' at the [[Globe Theatre]] in London. The performances are suppressed on August 14 in view of the play's allusions to the [[Spanish Match]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Trevor Howard Howard-Hill|title=Middleton's "Vulgar Pasquin": Essays on A Game at Chess|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vy8zmR4yupEC&pg=PA156|year=1995|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=978-0-87413-534-3|pages=156|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Cardinal Richelieu]] is appointed by [[Louis XIII of France]] to be his [[chief minister of France|chief minister]], having intrigued against [[Charles de La Vieuville]], [[Superintendent of Finances]], arrested for corruption the previous day.
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[List of fatalities while playing cricket|Jasper Vinall]] becomes the first person to die while playing the sport of [[cricket]], after being struck on the head with a bat during a game at [[Horsted Keynes]] in [[England]]. <ref>Tim McCann, ''Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century'' (Sussex Record Society, 2004) pp.xxxiii–xxxiv</ref>
* [[August 28]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Breda (1624)|Siege of Breda]] begins, and will continue for just over 9 months until June 5, 1625.
* [[August]] &ndash; Portuguese [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] priest [[António de Andrade]] becomes the first European to enter [[Tibet]], arriving at [[Tsaparang]]. <ref>Cornelius Wessels, ''Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia, 1603-1721'' (Martinus Nijhoff, 1924) p. 63</ref> 
* [[September 4]] &ndash;  The [[Parlement of Paris]] registers a decree forbidding the publication of criticism of "anciently approved authors" without prior approval from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris, on pain of death.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kahn |first=Didier |date=2002 |title=La condamnation des thèses d'Antoine de Villon et Étienne de Clave contre Aristote, Paracelse et les « cabalistes » (1624) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23633673 |journal=Revue d'histoire des sciences |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=143–198 |issn=0151-4105}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[Ketevan the Martyr|Ketevan]], former [[queen consort]] of [[Kingdom of Kakheti|Kakheti]] (located around [[Gremi]] in what is now the Republic of Georgia), is tortured and killed in the Persian city of [[Shiraz]] after refusing to renounce Christianity to convert to [[Islam]].
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Michael of Russia|Michael I]], the [[Tsar of Russia]], is married at Moscow, making [[Maria Dolgorukova]] the Tsaritsa. Maria becomes ill shortly afterward and dies five months after the marriage, on January 17.
* [[September 21]] &ndash; The Roman Catholic church's [[Dicastery for the Clergy]] issues a decree that no monk may be expelled from his order "unless he be truly incorrigible."