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=== October–December ===
* [[October 19]] – The [[Siege of Suncheon]], an attempt by Korean and Chinese troops to capture the Japanese-occupied [[Suncheon Castle]].<ref>Kenneth M. Swope, ''A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598'' (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009) p.271</ref> An attempt to lure Japanese General [[Konishi Yukinaga]] into an ambush fails when a Korean Army cannon is fired too early and gives away the Korean plan. 
* [[November 2]] – Admiral [[Yi Sunsin]] of the Korean Navy attempts to bombard the Suncheon Castle, two days after the joint Chinese and Korean land assault is driven back. Korea and Japan lose 39 ships when a large number of the fleet gets stuck in the shallow waters at low tide and the vessels are attacked by the Japanese. Yi Sunsin calls off the siege the next day.<ref>Samuel Hawley, ''The Imjin War'' (Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch/UC Berkeley Press, 2005) p.531</ref>
* [[November 10]] (11th waxing of Tazaungmon 960 ME) – In what is now the [[Rakhine State]] of [[Myanmar]], [[Min Razagyi|King Min Razagyi]] of [[Kingdom of Mrauk U|Arakan]] and the rebel leader [[Minye Thihathu II of Toungoo|Minye Thihathu]] begin their assault on [[Bago, Myanmar|Pegu]], the remaining portion of the [[Toungoo Empire]] in southern Burma.<ref>Ashin Sandamala Linkara, ''Rakhine Yazawinthit Kyan'' (Tetan Sarpay, 1931) pp. 77–78</ref>
* [[November 15]] – [[Pope Clement VIII]] authorizes the marriage between Albert of Austria and Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain. The two will be married on April 18.
* [[December 4]] – In what is now part of the U.S. state of New Mexico, a dispute breaks out between the [[Keres people]] of the [[Acoma Pueblo]] (near what is now [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]] between the Keres Chief Zutacapan and the Spanish colonial envoy [[Juan de Zaldívar (Spanish soldier)|Juan de Zaldívar]]. After being refused food and shelter for himself and his 16 men, Zaldivar retaliates by pillaging Acoma, and Zutacapan orders a counterattack in which Zaldivar and 11 other men are killed.<ref>Andrew Knaut, ''The Pueblo Revolt of 1680'' (University of Oklahoma Press, 1995) p.69</ref> Spanish troops from the Santa Fe de New Mexico colony retaliate on January 22 by carrying out the [[Acoma Massacre]] of 800 people. 
* [[December 16]] (Keichō 3, 19th day of the 11th month, lunar calendar) – [[Battle of Noryang]]: An allied Korean and Chinese fleet under Korean Admiral [[Yi Sun-sin]] and Chinese Admiral [[Chen Lin (Ming dynasty)|Chen Lin]] defeats the Japanese navy, ending the [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98)]].<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Stephen Turnbull (historian)|last=Turnbull|first=Stephen|year=2002|title=Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War|location=London|publisher=Cassell|isbn=978-0-304-35948-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/samuraiinvasionj0000turn}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] – [[Battle of Curalaba]]: The revolting [[Mapuche]], led by [[cacique]] [[Pelantaro]], inflict a major defeat on [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] troops in southern [[Captaincy General of Chile|Chile]]; all Spanish cities south of the [[Bío Bío River]] eventually fall victim to the [[Destruction of the Seven Cities]] by the Mapuches, and all conquest of Mapuche territories by Europeans practically ceases, until the later 19th century [[Occupation of Araucanía]].
* [[December 29]] – [[Pope Clement VIII]] refuses to allow dispensation for [[Henry II, Duke of Lorraine|Henry of Lorraine]], who is Catholic, to marry [[Catherine of Bourbon]], a Protestant Calvinist. King Henry IV of France then intimidates the Catholic Archbishop of Reims into authorizing the marriage.<ref name=Roelker/>