Editing 1679 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Bil'arab bin Sultan]] becomes the new [[List of rulers of Oman|Imam of Oman]] upon the death of his father, [[Sultan bin Saif]].
* [[October 6]] &ndash; Mughal Emperor [[Aurangzeb]] returns control of [[Bengal Subah|Bengal]] to the local [[Nawabs of Bengal and Murshidabad|Nawab of Murshidabad]] after removing his son, [[Muhammad Azam Shah|Prince Qutb-ud-Din Muhammad Azam]], from the position of Mughal Governor of [[Dhaka]]. <ref>Sir Jadunath Sarkar, ''The History of Bengal'' (University of Dacca, 1943) p. 382</ref>
* [[October 12]] &ndash; Representatives of the [[Dutch Republic]] and the [[Denmark–Norway|Kingdom of Sweden]] sign the last of the nine [[Treaties of Nijmegen]], ending the last of the conflicts that began during the [[Franco-Dutch War]].
* [[October 18]] &ndash; A sea battle is fought between England's Royal Navy and the navy of India's [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] (under the command of [[Mai Nayak Bhandari]]), with English bombardment driving the Maratha occupation of the island fortress at [[Khanderi]] (off of the western Indian coast south of [[Mumbai]]).   
* [[November 27]] &ndash; A fire in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], burns all of the warehouses, 80 houses, and all of the ships in the dockyards. 
* [[December 3]] &ndash; French explorers [[René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]] (commonly called "La Salle") and [[Henri de Tonti]] set off from their fort near [[Niagara Falls]] in North America on the first European expedition to explore the upper [[Mississippi River]]. 
* [[December 10]]
**More than 200 captives on the ship ''[[Deerness#The Crown of London shipwreck|The Crown of London]]'', all Scottish [[Covenanters]] arrested after the battle of Bothwell Bridge, are killed when the ship is wrecked on the [[Orkney|Orkney Islands]] while transporting the group to exile in North America.<ref>[https://www.orkney.com/news/covenanters-memorial "The story of the Covenanters Memorial"], Orkney.com</ref>
**A peace treaty is signed between Ali Bey al-Muradi, Bey of Tunis; his brother whom he had overthrown in 1678,  [[Muhammad Bey al-Muradi]]; and their uncle, Muhammad al-Hafsi al-Muradi, the Pasha of Tunis, after mediation by the [[Dey of Algiers]].
* [[December 16]] (December 6 O.S.) &ndash; [[Oliver Plunkett]], the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh, is arrested on false charges of plotting to aid a French invasion of the British Isles, the so-called "[[Popish Plot]]". Executed in 1681, Plunkett will be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint almost 300 years later in 1975.
* [[December 26]] &ndash; In modern-day Indonesia, the [[Trunajaya rebellion]] comes to an end with the surrender of Prince [[Trunajaya|Panembahan Maduretno]] to the Sultan [[Amangkurat II of Mataram]], ruler of the entire island of [[Java]]. While treated with respect as a prisoner of the occupying forces of the [[Dutch East India Company]] (''Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie'' or VOC), Panembahan is killed seven days later by Amangkurat after the VOC allows him to attend a ceremonial visit to the sultan's palace.