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=== July–September === * [[July 1]] – [[Willem Schouten]] and the crew of the Dutch ship ''Eendracht'' return to the Netherlands after [[circumnavigation world record progression|sailing around the world]] in two years and 17 days, in what is only the fourth circumnavigation of the globe, and the first since 1588. The expedition had departed from [[Texel]] on June 14, 1615 under the command of [[Jacob Le Maire]], who died on December 22, 1616, slightly more than six months before the return to the Netherlands. <ref>''An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe: And of the Progress of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the Voyage of Magellan to the Death of Cook'' (Harper & Brothers, 1837) p. 100</ref> * [[July 29]] – The secret [[Oñate treaty]] is signed in [[Vienna]] between representatives of King [[Philip III of Spain]] reached an agreement with the junior Habsburg branch of [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor|Archduke Ferdinand II]] of Austria, the heads of two different branches of the [[House of Habsburg]]. Spain's Ambassador to Austria, [[Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, 7th Count of Oñate]] signs on behalf of King Philip. * [[August 4]] – The [[Sharp Resolution]] is passed in the [[States of Holland and West Friesland]], authorizing city governments to create their own mercenary armies, the ''waardgelders'', to maintain public order. * [[August 8]] – [[James VI and I|King James of England and Scotland]] returns to England after having spent three months in Scotland, arriving at [[Wharton, Cumbria]]. * [[August 24]] – The "[[Fruitbearing Society]]" (''Die Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft'') of German scholars is founded in [[Weimar]]. * [[September 1]] – The weighing ceremony of [[Jahangir]] is described by the first English ambassador to the Mughal court, [[Sir Thomas Roe]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jahangir (Emperor of Hindustan)|title=The Jahangirnama: memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T_QNAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution|isbn=978-0-19-512718-8}}</ref> * [[September 23]] – The [[Peace of Busza]] is signed, between the [[Ottoman Empire]] and the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]].
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