Editing 1560 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 4]] &ndash; Queen Elizabeth of England notifies the official treasurers and Lords Mayor throughout the kingdom that the existing coins will be replaced and that those in circulation are to be devalued, to be stricken with a special mark to indicate lesser worth. Treasurers are all instructed to send the coins withdrawn from circulation to be sent to the Royal Mint to be melted down for the new coins.<ref>John Stow, ''The Chronicles of England from Brute unto this Present Year of 1580'' (Henry Bynneman for Ralph Newbury, Cum Privilegio, London 1580), [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A13043.0001.001/1:47?rgn=div1;view=fulltext p. 1115] (Umich/eebo).</ref>
* [[October 19]] &ndash; The siege of Castle Semple ends after 31 days when the defenders wave the white flag of surrender.<ref>{{Cite book|author=William M. Metcalfe|year=1905|title=A History of the County of Renfrew from the Earliest Times|publisher=Alexander Gardener|page=213}}</ref> 
* [[October 29]] &ndash; Queen Elizabeth directs the minting of the first [[Milled coinage|machine produced coins]] in the Kingdom to completely replace [[hammered coinage]], produced manually.
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Eloy Mestrelle]] is given authority to commence the production of the new English coinage on machines he has brought over from France for the purpose of mass production.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Symonds|first1= H. |date=1916|title=The mint of Queen Elizabeth and those who worked there|journal=Spink and Son's Numismatic Circular|volume=16 |pages=61–105 }}</ref>
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Charles IX of France|Charles IX]] succeeds his brother [[Francis II of France|Francis]] as King of France, after Francis dies of a severe ear infection at the age of 16. Francis's mother (Mary's mother-in-law), [[Catherine de' Medici]], becomes regent of [[Kingdom of France|France]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Isidore Silver|title=Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UTHj7__GyXIC&pg=PA382|year=1961|publisher=Librairie Droz|isbn=978-2-600-03094-6|pages=382}}</ref>