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=== October–December ===
* [[October 10]] – The [[Union of Brest]]: The Ukrainian Church west of the Dnieper becomes known as the Ukrainian Rite of [[Catholicism]], whereas the East officially renounces the authority of the [[Pope]].<ref>{{cite book|author=George Nedungatt|title=The Synod of Diamper Revisited|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hgguAAAAYAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Pontificio Istituto Orientale|isbn=978-88-7210-331-9|page=137|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] – The [[2nd Spanish Armada|''Second Armada'']], a Spanish fleet sent to attack England in revenge for the raid on Cadiz, is wrecked in storms off [[Cape Finisterre]]; nearly 5,000 men and 44 ships are lost including five galleons
* [[October 19]] – The Spanish galleon ''[[San Felipe incident (1596)|San Felipe]]'' founders in Japan, leading to [[26 Martyrs of Japan|26 Christians being martyred]] the next year.
* [[October 26]] – [[Battle of Keresztes]]: The [[Ottoman Empire]] Turks defeat a combined [[Habsburg]]–[[Transylvania]]n army, after two days of fighting: .<ref>{{cite book|author=William J. Griswold|title=The Great Anatolian Rebellion, 1000-1020/1591-1611|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qURtAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=K. Schwarz|isbn=978-3-922968-34-4|page=17|language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 25]] – The [[Cudgel War]] begins in Finland (at the time part of Sweden), when poor [[peasant]]s rise up against the troops, nobles and cavalry who have taxed them.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jaakkoilkka.fi/Jaakko%20Ilkka%20-%20Rebellion%20.htm|title=Jaakko Ilkka's biography|access-date=13 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605075454/http://www.jaakkoilkka.fi/Jaakko%20Ilkka%20-%20Rebellion%20.htm|archive-date=5 June 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[December 5]] – [[Damat Ibrahim Pasha]] is appointed the [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] by Sultan [[Mehmed III]] for the second time in less than a year, replacing [[Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha]], who succeeded him on October 27.
* [[December 8]] – In Japan, [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], Chancellor of the Realm, orders the arrest of the [[San Felipe incident of 1596|26 Roman Catholic Christians who had the misfortune of being shipwrecked]] in [[Kyoto]] on October 19; each of the ones arrested has a part of the left ear cut off, then sent on a forced march to [[Nagasaki]] on January 4, then has them killed on February 5. 
* [[December 31]] – [[Henry IV of France|King Henry IV]] of France (who was originally King Henry III of the [[Kingdom of Navarre]]) declares Navarre to be permanently separate of France.