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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Abbas I of Persia|Shāh ‘Abbās I "The Great"]] succeeds as [[Shahanshah]] of [[Iran]].<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Chambers Biographical Dictionary]]|isbn=0-550-18022-2|page=1|last1=Thorne |first1=J. O. |last2=Collocott |first2=T. C. |year=1984|publisher=Chambers }}</ref>
* [[October 7]] &ndash; Sigismund Vasa and a fleet of Swedish ships land in Poland to confront an invasion by Maximilian III and an Austrian Army.<ref>Józef Szujski, ''Dzieła Józefa Szujskiego: Dzieje Polski'' (in Polish). Vol. 3. Kraków: (Szujski-Kluczycki, 1894) pp.139-140</ref>  
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[War of the Polish Succession (1587–1588)]]: Archduke Maximilian of Austria begins the [[Siege of Kraków (1587)|siege of Kraków]], while [[Jan Zamoyski]], [[hetman]] of the Polish Army, begins the defense of the city.
* [[October 18]] &ndash; [[Landing of the first Filipinos]]: The first [[Filipino American|Filipinos]] in North America land in Morro Bay, near San Luis Obispo in modern-day California.
* [[October 20]] &ndash; [[Battle of Coutras]]: [[Huguenot]] forces under [[Henry IV of France|Henry of Navarre]] defeat Royalist forces under [[Anne de Joyeuse]], favorite of [[Henry III of France|King Henry]]; Joyeuse is killed.
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Leiden University Library]] opens its doors, after its founding in [[1575]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Elfriede Hulshoff Pol|title=The First Century of Leiden University Library|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ns03AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA402|year=1975|publisher=Brill Archive|page=402}}</ref>
* [[November 4]] &ndash; During the circumnavigation of the world by [[Thomas Cavendish]], the English ships capture the Spanish galleon ''Santa Ana'' and its treasure of 100 [[troy weight|troy pounds]] of gold  (worth 122,000 Spanish pesos) and a total treasure worth 2.1 million pesos.<ref>Joyce E. Chaplin, ''Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit'' (Simon and Schuster, 2013) pp.63-64</ref>
* [[November 14]] &ndash; In Italy, [[Davide Vacca]] is elected to a two-year term as the new [[Doge of Genoa|Doge]] of the [[Republic of Genoa]] in a vote by the Grand Council of the Republic.<ref>Sergio Buonadonna and Mario Marcenaro, ''Rosso doge: I dogi della Repubblica di Genova dal 1339 al 1797'' (De Ferrari Editore, 2000)</ref>
* [[November 22]] &ndash; A final Austrian attack on Kraków by Archduke Maximilian III is repelled by the Polish defenders.
* [[November 29]] &ndash; Maximilian III withdraws his forces and the siege of Kraków ends. 
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Sigismund III Vasa]] is formally crowned as King Zygmunt Waza of Poland and Duke of Lithuania in a coronation ceremony at [[Kraków]].<ref>"Sigismund III, 1587-1632", by F. Nowak, in ''The Cambridge History of Poland: From the Origins to 1696'' (Cambridge University Press, 1950) pp. 452–453</ref>