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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Guru Har Krishan]] becomes eighth of the ten [[Sikh guru]]s, and at age 5 the youngest, following the death of his father [[Guru Har Rai]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Mohindar Pal Kohli|title=Guru Tegh Bahadur: Testimony of Conscience|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3H1XAEqCOqAC&pg=PA12 |year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-234-2|pages=12–13}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha]] is appointed as the new [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] at the request of his late father, the Grand Vizier [[Köprülü Mehmed Pasha]], serving under the Sultan [[Mehmed IV]] for 15 years and continuing the [[Köprülü family]] dynasty whose members will serve as Viziers until 1711. 
* [[November 4]] &ndash; Polish and Lithuanian forces, led by [[John II Casimir Vasa|King Jan II Kazimierz]] (who is also the Grand Duke of Lithuania) defeat the Russian Army at the [[Battle of Kushliki]].
* [[December 14]] &ndash; Prince [[Murad Bakhsh]], younger brother of the Mughal Emperor [[Aurangzeb]], is executed at Gwailor Fort on order of his brother.  
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Abraham Cowley]]'s comedy ''[[The Cutter of Coleman Street]]'' premieres at the [[Lisle's Tennis Court|Lincoln's Inn Fields Playhouse]] in [[London]] as a production of the [[Duke's Company]].
* [[December 21]] &ndash; General [[Wu Sangui]] of [[Qing dynasty|China]] arrives in Burma with 20,000 troops and demands that the Burmese surrender [[Zhu Youlang|Yongli]], the last of the [[Ming dynasty]] rulers of Southern China before the [[Qing dynasty]] consolidated its rule.   Burma's King [[Pye Min]] hands Yongli over to General Wu on January 15, and Yongli is subsequently executed.
* [[December 24]] &ndash; The Indian city of [[Kollam|Quilon]] (now Kollam in the [[Kerala]] state), ruled by Portugal since [[1498]], is captured by the Dutch East India Company.