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=== July–September === * [[July 30]] – In [[Jamestown, Virginia]], the first English-speaking representative assembly in the Americas, the [[Virginia General Assembly]] (later named [[House of Burgesses]]), convenes for the first time.<ref>{{cite web | title=The First Legislative Assembly, Historic Jamestowne | website=Colonial National Historical Park | publisher = U.S. National Park Service | date=2019-07-22 | url= https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/the-first-legislative-assembly.htm | access-date= 2019-08-03}}</ref> * [[August 5]] – [[Thirty Years' War]]: [[Battle of Věstonice]] – [[Bohemia]]n forces defeat the Austrians. * [[August 10]] – The [[Treaty of Angoulême]] ends the civil war between [[Louis XIII of France]] and his mother, [[Marie de' Medici]]. * [[August 20]] – A [[First Africans in Virginia|group "twenty and odd" enslaved Africans]], onboard the [[privateer]] ship ''[[White Lion (privateer)|White Lion]]'' (the first in the state of Virginia), are landed at [[Old Point Comfort|Point Comfort]] in [[Colony of Virginia|colonial Virginia]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/08/24/slaverys-bitter-roots-in-1619-20-and-odd-negroes-arrived-in-virginia/|title= Slavery's bitter roots: In 1619, '20 And odd Negroes' arrived in Virginia |last=Brown|first= DeNeen L|date=August 24, 2018|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=January 9, 2019}}</ref><ref>[https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-africans/ "The First Africans"]. ''Jamestowne Rediscovery''. Historic Jamestowne. Retrieved August 18, 2019.</ref> * [[August 26]] – [[Frederick V of the Palatinate]] is elected [[King of Bohemia]] by the states of the Bohemian Confederacy. * [[August 28]] – [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand II]], Archduke of Austria and King of Bohemia, is elected [[Holy Roman Emperor]] unanimously by the [[prince-elector]]s. * [[September 5]] – In the course of a revolt against the Habsburg Empire, Prince [[Gabriel Bethlen]] of [[Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)|Transylvania]] (now in Romania) conquers [[Košice|Kassa]] (now Košice in Slovakia) with the help of [[George I Rákóczi]]. * [[September 7]] – [[Gaj Singh of Marwar|Gaj Singh Rathore]] becomes the new Raja of [[Marwar]] (within the Mughal Empire) at [[Jodhpur]] in what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan, succeeding his father, [[Sur Singh]]. * [[September 9]] – The coronation of Ferdinand II takes place in Vienna. * [[September 18]] (7 Thout 1336 on the [[Coptic calendar]]) – Abba Yoannis El-Mallawany of Egypt becomes the new head of the Coptic Christian Church as [[Pope John XV of Alexandria]] succeeding the late [[Pope Mark V of Alexandria|Pope Mark V]], who died on September 11.
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