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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 10]] &ndash; France takes [[Dunkirk]] from the [[Spanish Netherlands]] for the first time.
* [[October 28]] &ndash; The first [[Protestant]] church assembly for Native Americans (specifically, the [[Waban]] people) is held in Massachusetts.
* [[October 9]] &ndash; The Anglican [[episcopacy]] is formally abolished by an act of England's Parliament.<ref name=Richardson>M. A. Richardson, ''The Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences... Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham'' (M. A. Richardson, 1841) p. 277</ref><ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title= The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=181–182|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] enacts the death penalty as punishment for denying [[Biblical inspiration]].
* [[November 16]] &ndash; Following up on the abolition of the episcopacy, Parliament passes an act to sell the bishops' lands across the Commonwealth.<ref name=Richardson/>
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau]] marries [[Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg]], on her 19th birthday at The Hague.
* [[December 23]] &ndash; The [[Covenanter]]s hand over King [[Charles I of England]] to the Parliamentarians.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
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