Editing 1601 (section)

=== October–December ===
* [[October 2]] (September 22 O.S.) – [[4th Spanish Armada]]; a large Spanish fleet, with 4,500 soldiers led by [[Juan del Águila]], lands at [[Kinsale]] at [[County Cork]] in [[Ireland]], to assist [[Tyrone's Rebellion]].
* [[October 4]] – [[Claudine de Culam]], a 16-year-old girl in the French village of [[Rognon, Doubs|Rognon]], is hanged after being convicted of "carnal cohabitation with a dog". The dog is hanged along with her. <ref>A. F. Niemoller, ''Bestiality and the Law: A Resume of the Law and Punishments for Bestiality with Typical Cases from Fifteenth Century to the Present'' (Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1946)</ref>
* [[October 26]] – [[Johannes Kepler]], assistant to [[Tycho Brahe]], is suddenly promoted to the position of Royal Mathematician of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] after Brahe's sudden death. 
* [[October 27]] – The [[10th Parliament of Elizabeth I]] is opened by Queen Elizabeth of England. It serves until December 19.
* [[November 4]] – [[Cyril Lucaris|Cyril I]] is selected as the new leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church as [[Patriarch of Constantinople]] and [[Greek Patriarch of Alexandria]], succeeding [[Meletius I Pegas]], who died on September 12.
* [[November 18]] – Ottoman defenders commanded by [[Tiryaki Hasan Pasha]] successfully resist the Austrian siege of Nagykanizsa. 
* [[December 6]] – The [[Battle of Castlehaven]] is fought off of the coast of southern Ireland as six Spanish Navy ships led by General [[Pedro de Zubiaur]] are intercepted by an English fleet of four warships led and commanded by [[Richard Leveson (admiral)|Sir Richard Levenson]].  Two of the Spanish ships are sunk, and the other four are run aground. 
* [[December 19]] – The [[10th Parliament of Elizabeth I]] is adjourned. Another English Parliament will not be assembled until 1604 when summoned by James I. 
* [[December 24]] ([[Julian calendar]], used by the English; January 3, 1602, according to the [[Gregorian calendar]] used by the Irish and Spanish forces in the battle) – The [[Battle of Kinsale]] ends the [[siege of Kinsale]], [[Gaelic Ireland|Ireland]] (begun in autumn 1601).
* [[December 27]] – The [[Battle of Bantam]] is fought within what is now [[Indonesia]] off of the coast of the island of [[Java]], as Walter Harmensz leads five Dutch Republic galleons in a successful attack against a Portuguese fleet led by André Furtado de Mendonça.