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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of England|English]] forces under [[Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick]], land at [[Le Havre]] to aid the Huguenots against the French Crown.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[La Herradura naval disaster (1562)|La Herradura naval disaster]]: Twenty-five ships sink in a storm off of the coast of Spain in the bay of [[La Herradura]], where 28 ships had been anchored to weather the elements. At least 3,000 people are killed, and perhaps as many as 5,000, while another 2,000 survivors, mostly slaves on the galleys, are able to escape to shore.<ref>[https://www.costatropical.net/la-herradura/shipwrecked-sailors.php "The Shipwrecked Sailors"], CostaTropical.net</ref><ref>[https://armada.defensa.gob.es/html/historiaarmada/tomo2/tomo_02_03.pdf "Naufragio en La Herradura, 1560-1563"] (Instituto de Historia y Cultura Naval) pp.46-48</ref>
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Rouen]] is captured by Royalist forces under [[Antoine de Bourbon]], King of [[Navarre]], who is mortally wounded.
* [[October]] &ndash; Privateer [[John Hawkins (naval commander)|John Hawkins]] undertakes the first of several [[Atlantic slave trade|slave trading]] voyages, attacking Portuguese [[slave ship]]s off the West African coast and forcibly transporting the enslaved Africans onboard to [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|Spanish colonies in the Americas]] to sell. Hawkins arrives at the island of [[Hispaniola]] in the [[Spanish West Indies]], where he illicitly sells the enslaved Africans to local colonists, as his presence is technically in violation of Spanish law.<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=153–156|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref> 
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Battle of Corrichie]] in [[Scotland]]: The rebellion of George Gordon, [[Earl of Huntly]] is crushed by [[James Stewart, Earl of Moray]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John Leonard Roberts|title=Feuds, Forays, and Rebellions: History of the Highland Clans, 1475-1625|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KFnAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-6244-9|pages=97–8|language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian]] of Bohemia is elected [[King of the Romans]].
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Battle of Dreux]]: Huguenot and Catholic forces fight a bloody battle, narrowly won by the Catholic side. The official leaders of both armies are captured in the battle.<ref>{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Public Record Office|title=Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth: Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UmjSAAAAMAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Kraus Reprint|page=569|language=en}}</ref>