Editing 1614 (section)

=== October–December ===
* [[October 2]] – After [[Louis XIII]] reaches the age of 23, he is given full power as King of France and [[List of regents#France|the regency of his mother]] is ended. [[Marie de' Medici|Queen Regent Marie]] retains her position as leader of the [[Conseil du Roi]], however, and continues to control the French government.
* [[October 11]] – [[Adriaen Block]] and a group of [[Amsterdam]] merchants petition the [[States General of the Netherlands|States General of the Northern Netherlands]] for exclusive trading rights, in the area he explored and named "[[New Netherland]]".
* [[October 13]] – The second [[War of the Jülich Succession]], which flared up a second time in May, comes to an end. 
* [[October 17]] – On the orders of [[Ahmed I]], [[List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire|Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]], Grand Vizier [[Nasuh Pasha]] is strangled to death by the chief of the Sultan's bodyguards.
* [[October 27]] – The [[French Estates General]] begins its last session.<ref>Roland Mousnier, ''The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789'', ''Volume 1: Society and the State'' (translated by Brian Pearce) (University of Chicago Press, 1984) p.592</ref> [[:fr:États généraux de 1614|The session, with 464 deputies]] representing the nobility, the lower and middle classes, and the clergy, closes on February 23, 1615.<ref>Roger Chartier, "À propos des États généraux de 1614" ("About the States General of 1614"), in ''Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine'' (January–March, 1976) pp. 68-79</ref> For the next 175 years, the [[Kingdom of France]] will be governed as an [[absolute monarchy]] until the calling of a new Estates General in [[1789]] during the [[French Revolution]]).
* [[November 12]] – The [[Treaty of Xanten]] ends the [[War of the Jülich Succession]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Kenneth Meyer Setton|title=Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XN51y209fR8C&pg=PA25|year=1991|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=978-0-87169-192-7|pages=25|language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 19]] – Hostilities resulting from an attempt by [[Toyotomi Hideyori]] to restore [[Osaka Castle]] begin. [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]], father of the ''[[shōgun]]'', is outraged at this act, and leads three thousand men across the Kizu River, destroying the fort there.
* [[December 4]] – The [[Siege of Osaka]] begins in Japan.