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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 16]]
** (1st day of 10th month [[Tenbun|Tenbun 24]]) &ndash; At the [[Battle of Miyajima]] Island, [[Mori Motonari]] defeats [[Sue Harukata]].<ref>Stephen R. Turnbull, ''The Samurai: A Military History'', ( New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1977) pp. 131–134</ref>
** The first two Protestant [[Oxford Martyrs]], [[Hugh Latimer]] and [[Nicholas Ridley (martyr)|Nicholas Ridley]], are burned at the stake in England.
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] abdicates as [[Holy Roman Emperor]] and is succeeded by his brother [[Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand]].
* [[November 1]] &ndash; French Navy Vice-Admiral [[Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon]] leads a small fleet of two ships and 200 soldiers and colonists to take possession of [[Villegagnon island|Serigipe Island]], near modern-day [[Rio de Janeiro]] in [[Brazil]] at [[Guanabara Bay]], and builds [[Fort Coligny]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Parkman |first=Francis |date=1983 |title=France and England in North America Vol 1 |location= New York, New York |publisher=Library of America |pages=33–41}}</ref>
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Thomas Cranmer]] is officially removed from office as the Protestant [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] by order of Pope Paul IV and Queen Mary I.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/marygovt.html |title= Marian Government Policies |access-date=5 July 2007 }}</ref>
* [[December 11]] &ndash; Cardinal [[Reginald Pole]] is made a cardinal-priest in the Roman Catholic Church and made the administrator of the [[See of Canterbury]] in England,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/reginaldpolecard00leef |title=Reginald Pole, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury : an historical sketch, with an introductory prologue and practical epilogue |first=Frederick George|last=Lee|date=6 December 1888 |publisher=London : J. C. Nimmo |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> though he will not become the new Archbishop of Canterbury until the following March 20.