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=== October–December ===
* [[October 9]] – The [[Treaty of Pavia]] is signed between [[Spain]] and Savoy, under which [[Savoy]] returns [[Monferrato]] to [[Mantua]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Olaf Asbach|author2=Peter Schröder|title=The Ashgate Research Companion to the Thirty Years' War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D8vOCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA179|date=23 March 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-04135-1|pages=179–}}</ref>
* [[October 12]] – The coronation ceremony of [[Gustavus Adolphus|King Gustav Adolf]] of [[Sweden]] takes place in [[Stockholm]], almost six years after he succeeded to the throne.
* [[November 17]] – A naval battle between the [[Sicily|Sicilians]] and [[Venice|Venetians]] ends inconclusively.
* [[November 22]] – [[Mustafa I]] succeeds [[Ahmed I]], as [[Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]].
* [[December 15]] – [[Sir Thomas Roe]], a representative of England's [[British East India Company|East India Company]], arrives in [[Ahmedabad]] at India's Mughal Empire, and seeks an audience with the Emperor, [[Shah Jahan]]. The Emperor receives Roe in an audience three weeks later, on January 6. 
* [[December 24]] – An unexpected storm strikes off the coast of [[Finnmark]] in [[Norway]], sinking 10 ships and drowning at least 40 people. A little more than three years later, Mari Jørgensdatter tells interrogators that she and several other witches caused the storm, prompting the [[Vardø witch trials (1621)|Vardø witch trials]].
* [[December 30]] – [[Gervase Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton|Lord Clifton]] is imprisoned at the [[Tower of London]] for threatening [[Francis Bacon]], [[Lord Chancellor]]. Clifton is prosecuted by the [[Star Chamber]] on March 17 and eventually commits suicide in Fleet Prison.