Editing 1680 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 9]] &ndash;  A massive 9.0 magnitude {{M|w|link=y}} earthquake destroys part of [[Málaga]] and other cities in the [[Province of Málaga|province of the same name]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucm.es/info/emp/Numer_14/Sum/4-19.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.ucm.es/info/emp/Numer_14/Sum/4-19.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=El terremoto como noticia: relaciones de sucesos y otros textos del temblor de 1680. Estudios sobre el mensaje periodístico, ISSN 1134-1629, Nº 14, 2008 , pags. 581-604|language=es|access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref>
* [[October 29]] &ndash; At the request of King [[Charles XI of Sweden]], the [[Riksdag of the Estates|Riksdag]] in [[Sweden]] enacts the [[Great Reduction]], returning [[fief]]s which had been granted to the [[Swedish nobility]] to the Crown. The nation becomes an [[absolute monarchy]] under the rule of Charles. <ref>R. Nisbet Bain, ''Scandinavia A Political History of Denmark, Norway and Sweden from 1512 to 1900'' (Cambridge University Press, 1905) p. 300</ref> 
* [[November 14]] &ndash; The [[Great Comet of 1680]] is first sighted by [[Gottfried Kirch]], the first [[comet]] discovered by [[telescope]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.att.net/~jwwerner51/Comet.html|title=The Great Comet of 1680|first=James W|last=Werner|accessdate=2006-02-05|archive-date=June 24, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060624133119/http://home.att.net/~jwwerner51/Comet.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[November 17]] &ndash; The [[Green Ribbon Club]], a predecessor of the British [[Whigs (British political party)|Whigs]], organizes a procession to burn an effigy of the [[Pope]] in [[London]] for the second year running.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Pope-Burning Processions of the Late Seventeenth Century|first=O. W.|last=Furley|journal=History|volume=44|year=1959|issue=150 |pages=16–23|doi=10.1111/j.1468-229X.1959.tb01061.x |jstor=24403789 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24403789|accessdate=2022-07-27|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* [[December 17]] (December 7 O.S.) &ndash; The trial for treason of [[William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford]] before his fellow members of the [[House of Lords]] having concluded after seven days, the Lords vote on whether to convict him of the articles of impeachment. The Lords vote, 55 to 31 to convict him and to impose the death sentence <ref name=Hatsell>John Hatsell, ''Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons: Relating to conference and impeachment'' (L. Hansard and Sons, 1818) p.228-229</ref> and Lord Stafford is beheaded on 29 December (8 January 1681 N.S.)