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=== October–December ===
* [[October 3]] – The ''Liverpool Merchant'', the first [[slave ship]] to depart from the [[Port of Liverpool]], sets sail for West Africa where it embarks  hundreds of African slaves and sails for [[Barbados]], arriving there on September 18, 1700 with 220 slaves onboard.
* [[October 11]] – The opera [[Marthésie|''Marthésie, première reine des Amazones'']] (''Marthesia, First Queen of the Amazons''), composed by [[André Cardinal Destouches]], is performed for the first time, premiering at [[Fontainebleau]] near [[Paris]].
* [[October]] – An edict by King Louis XIV establishes an office of police magistrate in almost every village in France, with the title of ''lieutenant general de police'' created.<ref>Philip Dawson, ''Provincial Magistrates and Revolutionary Politics in France, 1789-1795'' (Harvard University Press, 1972) p. 51</ref>
* [[November 22]] – The [[Treaty of Preobrazhenskoye]], negotiated by [[Johann Patkul]], is signed at a palace of the Tsar of Russia [[Peter the Great]], and representatives of [[Augustus II the Strong|Augustus the Strong]], [[Elector of Saxony]], [[King of Poland]] and [[Elector of Saxony]] to provide for the partition of [[Swedish Empire]] between Saxony, the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]], the Kingdoms of [[Denmark-Norway]] and the [[Russian Empire]]. The attack on Sweden, which takes place on February 22, starts the [[Great Northern War]].
* [[December 3]] – Baron Jacob Hop is appointed as the treasurer-general of [[The Hague]].
* [[December 10]] – A major ice storm shuts down the city of Boston for a week and freezing rain brings down many tree branches and causes severe damage to orchards.
* [[December 20]] – [[Peter the Great]] orders the Russian New Year changed, from [[September 1]] (the start of the Byzantine year) to [[January 1]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=chMaCAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Peter+the+Great%22+%22New+Year%22+1699&pg=PT99 Lindsey Hughes, ''Peter the Great: A Biography''] (Yale University Press, 2002)</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Russia in the Age of Peter the Great |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hughes-peter.html |access-date=5 September 2022 |website=archive.nytimes.com |archive-date=5 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220905200603/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hughes-peter.html |url-status=live }}</ref>