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=== October &ndash;December ===
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Stede Bonnet]] and his crew are captured near the mouth of the [[Cape Fear River]] and taken to Charleston, South Carolina, where they are tried for piracy. All but four are found guilty and sentenced to death (with 22 hanged on November 8), but Bonnet escapes from prison on October 24.
* [[October 31]] &ndash; The Mughal Emperor of India, [[Farrukhsiyar]], restores the titles and responsibilities of his chief adviser, [[Mir Jumla III]], almost three years after dismissing him. 
* [[November 11]] &ndash; Lightning strikes the powder magazine at the [[Old Fortress, Corfu]], causing an explosion that kills a large number of people on the island.
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Voltaire]]'s first play, ''[[Oedipus (Voltaire)|Oedipus]]'', premières at the [[Comédie-Française]] in Paris. This is his first use of the pseudonym.
* [[November 22]] &ndash; Citing violations of the amnesty agreement with Blackbeard, [[Virginia]] Governor [[Alexander Spotswood]] sends a [[Royal Navy]] contingent to North Carolina, where they battle Blackbeard and his crew in [[Ocracoke Inlet]]. Blackbeard is killed in action, after receiving five musketball wounds and twenty sword lacerations.
*[[December 4]] &ndash; Fifty people are killed, and 150 houses burned, when a fire breaks out in [[Wapping]], [[London]].  The blaze comes two days after a fire at the [[Spring Gardens]] at [[St. James's]], London, which destroyed the French Chapel there and which was put out by several rescuers, including the future King George II.<ref>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p48-49</ref>
* [[December 5]] &ndash; Following the death of Charles XII on [[November 30]], his sister [[Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden|Ulrika Eleonora]] proclaims herself Queen regnant of [[Sweden]], as the news of her brother's death reaches Stockholm.
* [[December 10]] &ndash; Stede Bonnet is hanged at Charleston, after being recaptured.
* [[December 17]] &ndash; The [[Holy Roman Empire]], [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] and [[Dutch Republic]] join the [[Kingdom of France]] in formally declaring war on Spain, launching the [[War of the Quadruple Alliance]].