Editing 1656 (section)

=== July–September ===
* [[July 18]] &ndash; In an attempt to find survivors of the ''[[Vergulde Draeck]]'', a search party is sent ashore by the rescue ship ''Goede Hoop''; eleven men from two search parties while in the forests around the wreckage site.  No trace of the ''Vergulde Draeck'' will be found for more than three centuries, until its wreckage is discovered by skin divers on April 13, 1963.
* [[July 27]] &ndash; A Writ of Excommunication is issued against [[Baruch Spinoza]].
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Battle of Warsaw (1656)|After a battle of three days]], Swedish and Brandenburger troops led by King [[Charles X Gustav of Sweden]], defeat the forces of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], near [[Warsaw]] and recapture the recently liberated capital.
* [[August 8]] &ndash; In the [[Ayutthaya Kingdom]], comprising most of the territory now occupied by [[Thailand]], King [[Prasat Thong]] dies after a reign of more than 25 years.  His eldest son, Prince Chao Fa Chai, is crowned as [[Chai (king of Ayutthaya)|King Sanpet VI]] but Prasat's brother plots the new king's overthrow.
* [[August 9]] &ndash; King Sanpet's uncle, Prince [[Si Suthammaracha]], stages a coup d'etat and becomes the new King of Ayutthaya, now Thailand. Suthammaracha appoints another nephew, Prince Narai, as his chief minister and former King Sanpet is executed two days later on August 11. Suthammaracha's reign lasts less than three months.
* [[August 14]] &ndash; In one of the first battles of the [[Russo-Swedish War (1656–1658)|Russo-Swedish War]], Russian troops [[Storm of Kokenhusen|capture the Swedish-controlled city of Kokenhusen]] in [[Swedish Livonia]] ([[Latvia]]). [[Alexis of Russia|Tsar Alexis]], ruler of the Russian Empire and the leader of the Russian troops in battle, renames Kokenhausen "Tsarevich-Dmitriev" in honor of his late first-born son.  Russia holds the city for more than 30 years before it is ceded back to Sweden. Kokenhusen is now the Latvian town of [[Koknese]].
* [[August 27]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Butre]] is signed in West Africa by representatives of the [[Dutch West India Company]] and of the [[Ahanta people|Ahanta Kingdom]] and allows the Netherlands to have a protectorate over the [[Dutch Gold Coast]].  The area is now part of the [[Republic of Ghana]].
* [[September 15]] &ndash; [[Köprülü Mehmed Pasha]] becomes [[Grand Vizier]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]].