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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 10]] &ndash; A "day of humiliation and fasting" is held in [[London]] churches a month after the Great Fire of London.
* [[October 11]] &ndash; The Sieur de Buat, Captain [[Henri de Fleury de Coulan]] of the Army of the Dutch Republic, is beheaded in public at [[The Hague]] after being convicted of attempting to overthrow Dutch leader [[Johan de Witt]].
* [[October 17]] &ndash; In North America, [[Carignan-Salières Regiment|a French Army regiment]] led by [[Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy]] erects crosses in the [[Mohawk people|Mohawk]] lands of the eastern [[Iroquois Confederacy]] territory along the [[Mohawk River]] as part of an invasion that started on September 29.<ref>Jack Verney, ''The Good Regiment'' (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991)</ref> During the expedition, Prouville's forces find four abandoned Mohawk villages in the area, located in the modern U.S. state of New York near the village of [[Schenectady, New York|Schenectady]] but never confront any Mohawk defenders, and the French never attempt to enforce their claim.
* [[October 23]] &ndash; The most intense tornado on record in English history, an F4 storm on the [[Fujita scale]] or T8 on the [[TORRO scale]], strikes the county of [[Lincolnshire]] with a path of destruction through the villages of Welbourn, Wellingore, Navenby and Boothby Graffoe, with winds of more than {{convert|213|mph}}.<ref>[https://www.torro.org.uk/research/tornadoes/extremes "British and European Extremes"], The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO)</ref>
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Abbas II of Persia|Abbas II]], the [[Shah of Iran]], dies at the age of 34 after a reign of 24 years, without designating a successor.<ref>H. R. Roemer, "The Safavid period", in ''The Cambridge History of Iran'' (Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 301</ref> His 18-year old son Sam Mirza is crowned as the new Safavid dynasty emperor six days later.<ref>'' The Muslim World: A Historical Survey, Part III: The Last Great Muslim Empires'' (E. J. Brill, 1969) p. 210</ref>
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Robert Hubert]], a Frenchman who has made a false confession to having started the Great Fire of London (despite not arriving in England until two days after the blaze started), is executed based on his statements.
* [[November 28]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Rullion Green]] takes place in the [[Pentland Hills]] near [[Midlothian]] in [[Scotland]] as the culmination of the brief 'Pentland Rising' which began on November 15 as a rebellion by the [[Covenanters]] who oppose changes in the [[Church of Scotland]]. At least 2,000 men of the Scottish Royal Army, led by General [[Tam Dalyell of the Binns|Thomas Dalyell]], defeat more than 750 Covenanter rebels who have been under the command of [[James Wallace of Auchens]].
* [[December 12]] &ndash; A [[Synod#Orthodox usage|sobor]] (church council) of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]] deposes [[Patriarch Nikon of Moscow]], but accepts his liturgical reforms. Dissenters from these, known as [[Old Believers]], continue into the 21st century.
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Lund University]] is founded in [[Lund]], Sweden.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Foss|first1=Lene|last2=Gibson|first2=David V.|title=The Entrepreneurial University: Context and Institutional Change|year=2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-56894-0|page=133|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_UusCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA133}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Lund University 350 years|url=https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-university/university-glance/history-lund-university/lund-university-350-years|publisher=Lund University|accessdate=2024-12-15|language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] &ndash; The [[French Academy of Sciences]], founded by [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]], first meets.<ref>{{cite book|last=Clericuzio|first=Antonio|title=Elements, principles, and corpuscles: a study of atomism and chemistry in the seventeenth century|publisher=Kluwer Academic|location=Dordrecht; Boston|year=2000|isbn=9780792367826|page=179| language=en}}</ref>