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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; Austrian field marshal [[Ernst Gideon von Laudon]] captures the Prussian town of [[Świdnica|Schweidnitz]] (now [[Świdnica]] in [[Poland]]) during the Seven Years' War. <ref>Thomas Carlyle, ''On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History'' (University of California Press, 1993) p304</ref>
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham|William Pitt]] is dismissed from his position as [[Secretary of State for the Southern Department]] after having been a powerful part of a coalition government with the Prime Minister, the Duke of Newcastle.
* [[October 30]] &ndash; Colonel [[Henry Bouquet]] issues the first proclamation against Anglo-American settlement on Indian lands in America. <ref name=James>Alfred P. James, ''The Ohio Company: Its Inner History'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1959) p118</ref>
* [[November 7]] &ndash; The [[New London Harbor Light]] is first lit to guide ships into the Connecticut harbor; the lighthouse, only the fourth to be built has been in continuous operation for more than 250 years.  
* [[November 11]] &ndash; The [[Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont|Earl of Egremont]], serving as [[Secretary of State for the Southern Department]], initiated a policy which forbids the issuing of any land grants to white settlers in territory occupied by the American Indian tribes. <ref name=James/> 
* [[November 19]] &ndash; A separate peace treaty is signed between the [[Cherokee]] Indians and the [[Colony of Virginia]], bringing the [[Anglo-Cherokee War]] to a close.  <ref>"Cherokee War", by John C. Frederiksen, in ''The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890:  A Political, Social, and Military History'', ed. by Spencer Tucker (ABC-CLIO, 2011) p157</ref>
* [[November 26]] &ndash; A 500-man force from the Army of [[Spain]] brings the revolt of Mexico's [[Maya peoples|Maya]] population to an end, capturing the [[Yucatan]] village of Cisteil, killing about 500 of the 2,500 Mayan defenders and losing 40 of their own.  <ref>Micheal Clodfelter, ''Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015'' (McFarland, 2017) p139</ref> The Spaniards arrest 254 people, including [[Jacinto Canek]], who had proclaimed himself as King Canek Montezuma of the Mayas. Canek and eight other rebellion leaders are executed less than three weeks later.  
* [[December 16]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: After four months of [[Siege of Kolberg (Seven Years' War)|siege]], the Russians under [[Pyotr Rumyantsev]] take the Prussian fortress of [[Kołobrzeg|Kolberg]].