Editing 1651 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 14]] &ndash; Laws are passed in [[Massachusetts]], forbidding poor people from adopting excessive styles of dress.
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Charles II of England|Prince Charles]]{{dubious|date=September 2022|reason=I believe he was Charles II by this time though it was disputed}} of the House of Stuart [[Escape of Charles II|escapes from England to find refuge in France]].<ref name="CBH1651">{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=185–186|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[October]] &ndash; An English diplomatic team, headed by [[Oliver St John]], goes to [[The Hague]] to negotiate an alliance between the [[Commonwealth of England]] and the [[Dutch Republic]].
* [[November 3]] &ndash; The [[Manx Rebellion of 1651]] comes to an end as [[Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby|the Countess of Derby]] surrenders the [[Isle of Man]] to the forces of Oliver Cromwell in return for a guarantee of safe passage for herself, her family and her servants, off of the island.
* [[November 24]] &ndash; In China, [[Qing dynasty]] forces led by [[Shang Kexi]] capture the city of [[Guangzhou]] from the [[Southern Ming]] and then carry out a massacre of the population, killing as many as 70,000 people over 11 days ending on December 5.<ref>Frederic Wakeman, ''The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China'' (University of California Press, 1985) pp. 767–768</ref> 
* [[December 17]] &ndash; Castle Cornet in [[Guernsey]], the last stronghold which had supported the King in the [[Third English Civil War]], surrenders.