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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 25]] &ndash; Italian-born French astronomer [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] discovers [[Iapetus (moon)|Iapetus]], the second known moon of the planet [[Saturn]].  [[Christiaan Huygens]] had discovered the Saturnian moon [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] on March 25, 1655.
* [[October 30]] &ndash; The [[Republic of Venice]] and the [[Ottoman Empire]] sign a treaty delineating the borders between their territories in modern-day Greece, with Venice acknowledging the loss of the island of [[Crete]] in the [[Cretan War (1645–1669)|Cretan War]].
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Dionysius IV of Constantinople|Dionysius IV]], bishop of Larissa, is elected as the [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]], leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christians, after [[Parthenius IV of Constantinople|Parthenius IV]] is sent into exile.
* [[November 9]] &ndash; The [[Dorset Garden Theatre|Duke of York's Theatre]] is opened in [[London]] by the players of the [[Duke's Company]], rivals to the "King's Company" at the Theatre Royal, which burns down two months later.  The site is now the Dorset Garden Theatre.
* [[November 18]] &ndash; In southwest Africa, troops of the Army of [[Portugal]], under the command of [[Luís Lopes de Sequeira]], win the [[Battle of Pungo Andongo]], capturing the fortress capital of the [[Kingdom of Ndongo]] after nine months and deposing King Ngola Hari.  The kingdom is annexed into the Portuguese colony of Angola.
* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[Lê Gia Tông]], age 10, is installed as the figurehead [[List of monarchs of Vietnam|Emperor of Vietnam]] (a kingdom known as [[Đại Việt]] or Annam) by the warlord [[Trịnh Tạc]], after the death, three days earlier, of [[Lê Huyền Tông]].  He reigns until his death on April 3, 1675.
* [[December 7]] &ndash; The first [[Seventh Day Baptist]] church in America is founded with a service on a Saturday at [[Newport, Rhode Island]], by Stephen Mumford and four Sabbatarians who believed that Christian church services should be held on Saturday, the seventh and last day of the week, in keeping with the commandment of remembering the [[Sabbath]].<ref>Scott Bryant, ''The Awakening of the Freewill Baptists: Benjamin Randall and the Founding of an American Religious Tradition'' (Mercer University Press, 2011) p. 19</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Sanford |first=Don A. |title=A Choosing People: The History of Seventh Day Baptists |publisher=Broadman Press |year=1992 |isbn=0-8054-6055-1 |location=Nashville |pages=127–286}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] &ndash; The ''[[Académie royale d'architecture]]'' is founded by [[Louis XIV]] of France in [[Paris]] as the world's first school of [[architecture]].