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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 12]] &ndash; The English [[Rump Parliament]] dismisses [[John Lambert (general)|John Lambert]], and other generals.
* [[October 13]] &ndash; General-major [[John Lambert (general)|John Lambert]] drives out the English Rump-government.
* [[November 7]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of the Pyrenees]] is signed by representatives of King [[Louis XIV of France]] and King [[Philip IV of Spain]]. Spain agrees to French acquisition of the counties of [[Roussillon]] and [[Upper Cerdanya]] ([[Principality of Catalonia]]) and most of [[Artois]], formally ending the 24-year-long [[Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659)|Franco-Spanish War]].
* [[November 25]] &ndash; Dutch forces under [[Michiel de Ruyter]] free the Danish city of [[Nyborg]] from Swedish conquest that had taken place earlier in the year.
* [[December 16]] &ndash; General [[George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle|George Monck]] demands free parliamentary elections in Scotland and resolves to overthrow the military government that has ruled the British Isles since 1648.
* [[December 26]] &ndash; The [[Long Parliament]] reforms occur in Westminster.