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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Sir John Child, 1st Baronet|Sir John Child]] of England becomes the new Governor of Bombay province and, unofficially, Governor-General of all of the settlements of the [[East India Company]] in [[India]].  With the exception of a rebellion by Captain [[Richard Keigwin (Governor of Bombay)|Richard Keigwin]] during the year 1684, Child expands British control until involving the British in a war with the [[Mughal Empire]].
* [[November 20]] &ndash; Don [[Melchor de Navarra, Duke of Palata]] arrives in [[Lima]] after a voyage of almost 10 months from Spain and becomes the new [[List of viceroys of Peru|Viceroy of Peru]], succeeding the Archbishop of Lima, [[Melchor Liñán y Cisneros]], who had administered the area since 1678.
* [[November 25]] &ndash; [[Cornelis Speelman]] of the Netherlands becomes the new [[Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies]] (now [[Indonesia]]) and concludes an alliance with the [[Amangkurat II of Mataram|Sultan Amangkurat II]] of the [[Mataram Sultanate]] on the island of [[Java]], then uses the Dutch Army to suppress the rebellion started by the Sultan's half-brother, [[Pakubuwono I of Mataram|Prince Puger]].  Puger surrenders on November 28 to the ranking Dutch officer, Jacob Couper.
* [[November 29]] &ndash; A storm strikes the [[Isthmus of Panama]] and overwhelms the Spanish Navy's Flota de Tierra Firma, sinking the ship ''[[Nuestra Señora de Encarnación]]'' in the [[Chagres River]]. The ''Encarnación'' wreckage is not found until almost 340 years later, in [[2011]], mostly intact and still loaded with most of its cargo.
* [[December 3]] &ndash; Another ship in the Flota de Terra Firma, ''Nuestra Señora de la Soledad'', sinks in the Chagres River with the loss of its 280 crew.
* [[December 7]] &ndash; Wu Shifan, grandson of Chinese general [[Wu Sangui]], commits suicide at [[Kunming]] in [[Yunnan]] province, ending the 8-year [[Revolt of the Three Feudatories]] against the [[Kangxi Emperor]] and the [[Qing dynasty]] in China. <ref>Frederic E. Wakeman, ''The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-century China'' (University of California Press, 1985) p. 1120</ref>
* [[December 22]] &ndash; King [[Charles II of England]] signs a warrant for the building of the [[Royal Hospital Chelsea]] in London for wounded and retired soldiers.