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=== October–December ===
* [[October 3]] – [[Battle of Moncontour]]: The Royalist forces of [[Gaspard de Saulx|Gaspard de Saulx Tavannes]] and the [[Henry III of France|Duc d'Anjou]] defeat [[Gaspard II de Coligny]]'s Huguenots, killing 8,000 and taking 3,000 prisoner.
* [[November 9]] – The [[Rising of the North]] begins in England as the [[Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland|Earl of Westmorland]] and the [[Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland|Earl of Northumberland]], both Catholic nobles, set off from [[Brancepeth Castle]] in [[County Durham]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marshall |first1=Peter |title=Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation |date=1 January 2017 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-17062-7 |page=487 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7S_DgAAQBAJ&dq=Rising+of+the+North+Thomas+Percy+Brancepeth+Castle+%229+november+1569%22&pg=PA487 |access-date=16 December 2023 |language=en}}</ref> with 700 men, in hopes of overthrowing Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]], and placing the  Catholic [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], on the English throne.
* [[November 11]] — Danish General [[Daniel Rantzau]] arrives at the Swedish held Varberg castle at [[Halland]] and orders his artillery to shell the castle with cannon fire. The Swedish defenders fire back with their own artillery and Rantzau's head is taken off by a cannonball on the first day. 
* [[November 14]] — The siege of Varberg Castle by Denmark ends after three days of shelling the Swedish defenders.<ref>{{cite book |title=Fornvännen |date=1966 |publisher=Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien |page=33 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6kEsAQAAIAAJ&q=%2214%20november%201569%22 |access-date=16 December 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] — [[Francisco de Toledo|Francisco Álvarez de Toledo]] becomes the new Spanish [[List of viceroys of Peru|Viceroy of Peru]], succeeding [[Lope García de Castro]] as the governor-general of all Spanish territory in [[South America]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tapia |first1=Atilio Sivirichi |title=Historia del Perú y de América: virreinto y emancipación : de conformidad con el novisimo plan de estudios |date=1900 |publisher=Imprenta D. Miranda |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=urzZAAAAMAAJ&dq=Francisco+de+Toledo+peru+Lope+Garc%C3%ADa+de+Castro+%2226+de+noviembre+de+1569%22&pg=PA19 |access-date=16 December 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[December 2]] — The Catholic army of the Duc d'Anjou inflicts another defeat on the Huguenots of Coligny, successfully besieging [[Saint-Jean-d'Angély]].<ref>R. J. Knecht, ''The French Wars of Religion 1559-1598'' (Longman, 1989) p.42</ref>
* [[December 6]] — The [[Siege of Kanbara|Kanbara castle]], held by the [[Later Hōjō clan|Hōjō clan]] in what is now the [[Shizuoka Prefecture]] of Japan falls after a siege by [[Takeda Katsuyori]] of the [[Takeda clan]]. Hōjō Ujinobu, who had 1,000 men defending, commits suicide after the defeat. 
* [[December 13]] — An English counterattack against the Northern rebels begins as [[Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex]], marches from [[York]] with 10,000 men against the rebels' 6,000. The rebels disperse and flee northward back to Scotland, ending the [[Rising of the North]].