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=== October–December === * [[October 4]] (September 24 [[Old Style]]) – [[Thirty Years' War]] – [[Battle of Wittstock]]: A Swedish-allied army defeats a combined [[Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Emperor|Imperial]]-[[Saxony|Saxon]] army. * [[October 28]] – [[Harvard University]] was founded. * [[November 5]] – English theologian [[Henry Burton (theologian)|Henry Burton]] preaches two sermons on Guy Fawkes Day, heavily critical of the Anglican bishops, and is soon summoned before the Star Chamber.<ref>"Popes and Guys and Anti-Catholicism", by Justin Champion, in ''Gunpowder Plots: A Celebration of 400 Years of Bonfire Night'', ed. by Antonia Fraser (Penguin, 2005)</ref> * [[December 23]] (December 13 [[Old Style]]) – The [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] organizes three [[militia]] regiments to defend the colony against the [[Pequot]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Indians]]. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the [[United States National Guard]].
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