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=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 20]] &ndash; The Amsterdam Town Hall (the modern-day [[Royal Palace of Amsterdam|Royal Palace]]) is inaugurated.
* [[July 27]]
** The Jews in [[New Amsterdam]] petition for a separate Jewish cemetery.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pool |first1=David de Sola |title=An old faith in the New World; portrait of Shearith Israel, 1654-1954 |date=1955 |publisher=New York, Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231878159 |page=30 |url=https://archive.org/details/oldfaithinnewwor00pool |access-date=19 March 2022}}</ref>
** The Netherlands and [[Brandenburg]] sign a military treaty.
* [[July 30]] &ndash; Dutch troops capture Fort Assahudi Seram.
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Russo-Polish War (1654–67)]]: The Russian army enters the capital of the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]], [[Vilnius]], which it holds for 6 years.<ref>{{cite web |last1=BATŪRA |first1=Romas |title=Pamiršta kovos su priešais vieta |url=http://lzinios.lt/lzinios/komentarai/pamirsta-kovos-su-priesais-vieta/187547 |website= |access-date=19 March 2022 |date=29 July 2017 |language=lt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729000523/http://lzinios.lt/lzinios/komentarai/pamirsta-kovos-su-priesais-vieta/187547 |archive-date=29 July 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[August 9]] &ndash; Lord Protector [[Oliver Cromwell]] divides England into 11 districts, under major-generals.
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[New Amsterdam]] and [[Peter Stuyvesant]] bar colonial Jews from military service.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kohler |first1=Max J. |title=Civil Status of the Jews in Colonial New York |journal=Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society |date=1897 |issue=6 |page=87 |jstor=43058641 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43058641 |access-date=21 March 2022 |issn=0146-5511}}</ref>
* [[August]] &ndash; The governor of [[New Netherland]], [[Peter Stuyvesant]], attacks the [[New Sweden]] ([[Delaware]]) colony.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The History of the Colony of New Sweden |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20084647 |magazine=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|volume=8|issue=2|pages=146–148 |date=October 1, 1884|jstor=20084647 |access-date=21 March 2022}}</ref>
* [[September 8]] &ndash; Swedish King [[Karl X Gustav]] occupies [[Warsaw]] (Poland).
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Peter Stuyvesant]] recaptures the Dutch Fory Casimir, and defeats the [[New Sweden]] ([[Delaware]]) colony.