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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Juan Bautista de Orendáin y Azpilicueta]] is appointed again as Secretary of the Universal Bureau (Secretario del Despacho), the equivalent of the Prime Minister of Spain after the retirement of [[José de Grimaldo]].
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Grigore II Ghica]] becomes the [[Prince of Moldavia]] for the first time after [[Mihai Racoviță]] steps aside.
* [[November 8]] &ndash; (October 28 [[Old Style]]) [[Jonathan Swift]]'s satirical novel ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' is first published (anonymously) in London; it sells out within a week.
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Callinicus III of Constantinople|Callinicus, Metropolitan of Heraclea]] dies suddenly only one day after being elected the [[Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople]], the highest office in the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]].  Callinicus is said to have paid a record fee to the Ottoman Sultan to guarantee his appointment.
* [[November]] &ndash; [[Mary Toft]] allegedly gives birth to 16 rabbits in England; the story is later revealed to be a [[hoax]].
* [[December 24]] &ndash; The settlement of [[Montevideo]] is founded by the Spaniards in the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]].