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===October&ndash;December===
*[[October 1]] &ndash; The second of the [[Jamestown supply missions]], which set out in July from [[England]], arrives at [[Jamestown, Virginia]], with [[Christopher Newport]] commanding the ''Mary and Margaret'' carrying 70 settlers, bringing the population back up to 120; the passengers include two women and some skilled artisans, mostly from continental Europe, to develop industries.<ref>{{cite web|first=Gary C.|last=Grass|title=First Germans at Jamestown|publisher=Davitt Publications|year=2000|work=German Corner|url=http://www.germanheritage.com/Publications/Jamestown/first.html|access-date=2019-06-22|archive-date=January 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125034320/http://www.germanheritage.com/Publications/Jamestown/first.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[October 2]] &ndash; [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[lens (optics)|lens]] maker [[Hans Lippershey]] demonstrates the first [[telescope]] in the [[Dutch Republic|Dutch]] [[Parliament]].
*[[November 19]] &ndash; In [[Budapest]], the [[Coronation of the Hungarian monarch|coronation ceremonies]] take place for [[Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor|Matthias]] to be crowned as [[List of Hungarian monarchs#House of Habsburg (1526–1780)|King Mátyás II of Hungary]].
*[[November 20]] &ndash; [[Thomas Gates (governor)|Sir Thomas Gates]], Governor of the [[London Company]]'s colony at [[Jamestown, Virginia]], is ordered by the Board of Directors to forcibly convert the [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|native Indians]] in the area to Christianity as [[Anglicanism|Anglicans]].
*[[November 30]] &ndash; At the colony of [[Portuguese Macau]], a port on the Chinese mainland leased from the Chinese Empire, [[Nossa Senhora da Graça incident#Incident in Macau|a group of 100 Japanese samurai, wielding katana and muskets]] engage in a fight with musket-armed Portuguese soldiers commanded by Governor André Pessoa. <ref>C. R. Boxer, ''Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550–1770'' (Martinus Nijhoff, 1948) p. 53</ref> Around 50 Japanese are killed and the others are imprisoned until they sign an affidavit blaming themselves for the incident. [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], the principal shogun of [[Japan]], subsequently ends the "[[red seal ships]]" program of authorizing Japanese nationals to visit Macau. The incident eventually leads to much larger naval battle in 1610, the [[Nossa Senhora da Graça incident]].
*[[December 13]] &ndash; At the [[Morača (monastery)|Morača monastery]] in [[Kolašin]], in what is now the nation of [[Montenegro]], Patriarch [[Jovan Kantul]] assembles the [[Serb uprising of 1596–1597|rebel leaders of Montenegro and Herzegovina]]. The group agrees with a representative of the [[Duchy of Savoy]] to deliver [[Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy|Duke Charles Emmanuel]] a monarchy within the Balkans, in return for special privileges to the Serbian Orthodox Church.
*[[December 20]] &ndash; [[Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein|Karl of the House of Liechtenstein]] founds the [[Monarchy of Liechtenstein|Principality of Liechtenstein]] within the Holy Roman Empire, an independent nation that will continue more than 400 years later between [[Austria]] and [[Switzerland]].  
*[[December]] &ndash; Jamestown supply missions: [[Christopher Newport]] returns to England from [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]] carrying cargo with "tryals of Pitch, Tarre, Glasse, Frankincense, Sope Ashes ..."