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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Crown of the Kingdom of Poland|Poland]], under the command of [[Hetman]] [[Stanisław Żółkiewski]], takes control of the [[Kremlin]] during the [[Polish–Russian War (1609–1618)|Polish–Russian War]].
* [[October 17]] &ndash; The coronation of [[Louis XIII of France]] takes place.<ref>{{cite book|author=Roland Mousnier|title=The Assassination of Henry IV: The Tyrannicide Problem and the Consolidation of the French Absolute Monarchy in the Early Seventeenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=slMmAQAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Scribner|isbn=978-0-684-13357-7|page=12|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 24]] &ndash; The [[War of the Jülich Succession]] ends as the [[Protestant Union]] (including [[Margraviate of Brandenburg]] Brandenburg and [[Electoral Palatinate]]) and the [[Catholic League (German)|Catholic League]] (led by the [[Duchy of Bavaria]]) agree to withdraw their forces from Germany and to disband them by year's end. 
* [[November 6]] &ndash; After the [[Addled Parliament|Parliament of England]] gives King James only £ 100,000 of an agreed to £ 600,000 of debt relief promised in February under the [[Great Contract]], the King demands the rest of the funds. Parliament is outraged and declares the Contract abandoned on November 9.
* [[November 8]] &ndash; The [[Basque witch trials]] come to an end after almost two years. Out of about 7,000 persons accused of witchcraft, only six are condemned to be executed by the [[Spanish Inquisition]] as two men ([[Domingo de Subildegui]] and [[Petri de Joangorena]]) and four women ([[María de Echachute]], [[Graciana Xarra]], [[Maria Baztan de Borda]], and [[Maria de Arburu]]) are burned at the stake at [[Logroño ]]. <ref> Gustav Henningsen, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=rxNYEAAAQBAJ&dq=Graciana+Xarra&pg=PA138 The Salazar Documents]'' (Brill, 2004) p. 138</ref>
* [[November 20]] &ndash; The [[cession of Larache]], a port in [[Morocco]], takes place as [[Mohammed esh Sheikh el Mamun]], Sultan of Morocco, transfers control of the city to [[Spain]] in return for. The [[Juan de Mendoza, Marquis de la Hinojosa|Marquis de la Hinojosa]] accepts on behalf of [[Philip III of Spain|King Felipe III of Spain]] in return for Spain's aid to the Sultan's fight against the Sultan's brother, [[Zidan Abu Maali]]. [[Larache]] remains under Spanish control for the next 79 years until another sultan retakes it.<ref> Manuel Lomas Cortés, ''El proceso de expulsión de los moriscos de España (1609–1614)''("The process of expulsion of the Moors of Spain") (Universities of Valencia, Granada & Zaragoza, 2011) p. 238</ref>
* [[November 26]] &ndash; French astronomers [[Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc]] and [[Joseph Gaultier]] make the first detailed observations of the [[Orion Nebula]].
* [[December 18]] &ndash; (December 8 O.S.) English astronomer [[Thomas Harriot]] becomes the first person on Earth to observe [[sunspot]]s through a telescope. <ref>"Sunspot Positions and Areas from Observations by Thomas Harriot", by M. Vokhmyanin, et al., in ''Journal of Solar Physics'' (March 10, 2020)</ref>
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Pieter Both]] becomes the first [[Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies]] (now the [[Republic of Indonesia]]), serving until 1614.
* [[December 20]] &ndash; (December 10 O.S.), [[John Roberts (martyr)|John Roberts]], a Benedictine monk in [[Wales]], is executed five days after being convicted of [[high treason]] for violating a law against Catholic ministry. He is [[hanged, drawn and quartered]]. Roberts will be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint almost 360 years later, on October 25, 1970.
* [[December 21]] &ndash; (December 11 O.S.) The [[False Dmitry II|second False Dmitry]] is assassinated by a [[Qasim Khanate|Kasim]] [[Tatars|Tatar]] prince, [[Peter Arslanovich Urusov|Peter Urusov]]. After both Dmitry and Urosov have been drinking, Urusov shoots the Tsar Dmitry, then decapitates him. <ref> "Demetrius, Pseudo", Robert Nisbet Bain, in ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 11th edition (Cambridge University Press, 1911) p. 984</ref>