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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Manuel de Cendoya]], [[Habsburg Spain|Spain]]'s Governor of Florida, breaks ground for the construction of the [[Castillo de San Marcos]], a masonry fortress designed to protect [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]].<ref>Albert C. Manucy, ''The Building of Castello de San Marcos'' (U.S. National Park Service, 2014)</ref>  Governor Cendoya follows on November 9 with the ceremonial laying for the first stone for the foundation.
* [[October 18]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Buchach]], between the [[Ottoman Empire]] and the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], is signed.
* [[November 24]] &ndash; Five-year-old [[Sikandar Adil Shah]] is enthroned as the last [[Adil Shahi dynasty|Sultan of Bijapur]] (located in southwestern India in what is now the [[Karnataka]] state) upon the death of his father, the Sultan [[Ali Adil Shah II]].  In 1686, the sultanate of Bijapur is conquered and annexed by the Mughal Empire.
* [[November 28]] &ndash; After more than five years of administration of the Treasury of England by a five-member commission, [[Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh|Lord Clifford of Chudleigh]], one of the commission members, becomes the [[List of Lord High Treasurers of England and Great Britain#1660–1689|Lord High Treasurer of England]]. 
* [[December 18]] 
**[[Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp]] ends her regency of the Swedish Empire after more than 12 years, having exercised power in the name of her minor son, [[Charles XI of Sweden|Charles XI]], since the death of her husband [[Charles X Gustav of Sweden|Karl X Gustav]] in 1660.  Hedwig Eleonora had served as the chair of the six-member Regency Council.
**An English invasion force captures the Caribbean island of [[Tobago]] from Dutch colonists and destroys the settlement.
* [[December 23]] &ndash; French astronomer [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] discovers [[Rhea (moon)|Rhea]], a previously-unknown satellite of the planet [[Saturn]].  Rhea is the second-largest overall, and the third [[Moons of Saturn|moon of Saturn]] to be discovered by Earth astronomers, Titan having been found by [[Christiaan Huygens]] on March 25, 1655 and [[Iapetus (moon)|Iapetus]] by Cassini on October 25, 1671.
* [[December 30]] &ndash; Troops of the Dutch Republic, under the command of [[Carl von Rabenhaupt]], are able to reclaim lost territory for the first time in the [[Third Anglo-Dutch War]], liberating [[Coevorden]], which had been forced to surrender to France on July 1.  The moment, a boost for morale in what is remembered in Dutch history as the ''[[Rampjaar]]'' (the "Disaster Year"), is later memorialized in a painting by [[Pieter Wouwerman]], ''The Storming of Coevorden''.