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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Sayyid Hussain Ali Khan Barha]], one of the powerful [[Sayyid brothers]] of the Mughal Empire in India, is stabbed to death by Turkish nobleman Haider Beg Dughlat after Dughlat distracts him by giving him a petition to read. The assassination is ordered by Nizam ul-Mulk in retaliation for Sayyid Hussain's attempted ambush on June 19.
* [[October 15]] &ndash; [[Muhammad Ibrahim (Mughal emperor)|Muhammad Ibrahim]], a grandson of the late Emperor [[Bahadur Shah I]], is freed from prison by conspirators and declared the Mughal Emperor as a rival of his brother [[Muhammad Shah]], beginning a 32-day reign that is described as being "like a drop of dew upon a blade of grass".
* [[November 13]] &ndash; India's Mughal Emperor [[Muhammad Shah]] defeats his brother, pretender [[Muhammad Ibrahim (Mughal emperor)|Muhammad Ibrahim]] in a battle at [[Hasanpur]] (in [[Uttar Pradesh]]). Ibrahim is returned to incarceration at the citadel of [[Shahjahanabad]], part of modern-day [[Delhi]].
* [[November 16]] &ndash; English-born pirate "[[Calico Jack]]" Rackham (captured on October 22) is brought to trial at [[Spanish Town]] in [[Jamaica]]; he is [[hanged]] at [[Port Royal]] two days later. Most of his crew is also hanged but female pirates [[Mary Read]] and [[Anne Bonny]] are spared.
*[[December 8]] &ndash; [[Fath-Ali Khan Daghestani]] is deposed from his position as  [[List of Safavid Grand Viziers|Grand Vizier of Iran]] (at this time, part of the [[Safavid Empire]]) and tortured by Mohammadqoli Khan, the bodyguard of the Safavid Shah, [[Sultan Husayn]].