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=== October–December ===
* [[October 7]] – Japanese Chief Minister [[Hotta Masatoshi]] is assassinated, leaving Shōgun [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] without any adequate advisors, leading him to issue impractical [[edict]]s and create hardships for the Japanese people.
* [[November 8]] – [[James Renwick (Covenanter)|James Renwick]], a Scottish minister and one of the "[[Covenanters]]" challenging the attempt by Kings James VI and Charles I to take over churches in Scotland, posts his "Apologetical Declaration" on church doors and market crosses in and around [[Cambusnethan]], [[Lanarkshire]].<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Renwick, James [alias James Bruce] (1662–1688), covenanter |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-23382 |access-date=3 April 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/23382}}</ref>
* [[November 19]] – [[Richard Keigwin (Governor of Bombay)|Richard Keigwin]], who had arrested the [[East India Company]]'s Governor of [[Bombay Presidency|Bombay]] in 1683, [[Josiah Child]]  and had taken over as the unauthorized administrator of Bombay, turns control back to the company and its envoy, Sir [[Thomas Grantham]], receiving a general pardon.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cunha |first1=Joseph Gerson |title=The Origin of Bombay |date=1900 |publisher=Society's library |location=Bombay |page=329 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zbcOS42vZDgC&q=19th%20of%20november |access-date=3 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Dodwell |first1=Henry |title=The Cambridge History of the British Empire |date=1929 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=162–163 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G-48AAAAIAAJ&q=Grantham |access-date=3 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] – [[Isaac Newton]]'s derivation of [[Kepler's laws]] from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper ''[[De motu corporum in gyrum]]'', is read to the [[Royal Society]] by [[Edmond Halley]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gondhalekar |first1=Prabhakar |title=The grip of gravity : the quest to understand the laws of motion and gravitation |date=2001 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-80316-8 |page=89 |url=https://archive.org/details/gripofgravityque0000gond/page/88/mode/2up?q=december |access-date=3 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[December 17]] – The [[Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal War]], which had been going on since 1679, ends with the signing of the [[Ladakh Chronicles#Treaty of Tingmosgang (1684)|Treaty at Tingmosgang]] between the 5th Dalai Lama ([[Desi Sangye Gyatso]]) and King [[Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh#List of kings|Delek Namgyal]] of [[Ladakh]].  The Ladakh kingdom agrees to not invite foreign armies into the area (now part of the Indian state of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]]) in return for a respect for its sovereignty.