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=== October&ndash;December === 
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Bathory]], ruler of the [[Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)|Principality of Transylvania]], is removed from office by vote of the nobles meeting at [[Alba Iulia|Gyulafehérvár]] (now Alba Iulia in Romania).<ref name=nagy />{{rp|279}} Bathory refuses to vacate the palace at the Transylvanian capital at [[Oradea|Várad]], (now Oradea in Romania), and is murdered on October 27.<ref name=nagy>{{cite book |last=Nagy |first=László |year=1988 |title=Tündérkert fejedelme: Báthory Gábor ''[Prince of the Pixies' Garden: Gabriel Gáthory]'' |publisher=Zrínyi Kiadó |isbn=963-326-947-4 |pages=279–282}}</ref>
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Gabriel Bethlen]] is elected as the new Prince of Transylvania.<ref>"The Emergence of the Principality and its First Crises (1526–1606)", by Gábor Barta, in ''History of Transylvania'' (Akadémiai Kiadó, 1994) p.313</ref>
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Keichō]] embassy: [[Hasekura Tsunenaga]] departs Japan in the ''[[San Juan Bautista (ship)|Date Maru]]'' with a Japanese diplomatic mission to the [[Holy See]], scheduled to first travel to [[Acapulco]] in [[New Spain]], with a goal of concluding an agreement between [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] and the [[East India Company]], permitting English merchants to live and trade in Japan.
* [[November 3]] &ndash; English royal favourite [[Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset|Robert Carr]] is created 1st [[Earl of Somerset]].
* [[November 30]] &ndash; King Anaukpetlun of Burma sends an army of 4,000 troops to drive the Siamese occupiers from the Tenasserim coast.
* [[December 26]] &ndash;
**The ''Date Maru'', carrying the Japanese diplomatic mission commanded [[Hasekura Tsunenaga]], reaches North America, sighting [[Cape Mendocino]] on the California coast.<ref>"A Quarter Century of Trans-Pacific Diplomacy: New Spain and Japan, 1592–1617", by W. Michael Mathes, ''Journal of Asian History'' (1990) pp.1–29</ref> 
**[[Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset|The Earl of Somerset]] marries [[Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset|Frances Howard]], following the September 25 annulment of her marriage to [[Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex]]; the event is the inspiration for [[John Donne]]'s ''Eclogue''.<ref name="Donne1995">{{cite book|author=John Donne|title=The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6nGr41xRSQMC&pg=PR57|year=1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-31812-2|pages=57–}}</ref>
* [[December 26]] &ndash; The Burmese Army defeats the Siamese Army at [[Dawei|Tavoy]]. The city is now part of Myanmar as Dawei.
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Mateo Leal de Ayala]] becomes the new Governor of Rio de la Plata y Paraguay, covering what will become the nations of Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. He succeeds [[:es:Diego Marín de Negron|Diego Marín de Negron]], who was poisoned on July 26.