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=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[Eric of Pomerania]], [[List of Swedish monarchs|King of Sweden]], [[King of Denmark|Denmark]] and [[King of Norway|Norway]], loses direct control of Sweden, as [[Charles VIII of Sweden|Karl Knutsson Bonde]] is elected Regent of Sweden.<ref>{{cite book|last=Harrison|first=Dick|author-link=Dick Harrison|title=Karl Knutsson: en biografi|series=Svenska regenter|year=2004|publisher=Historiska media|place=Lund|isbn=91-85057-54-1}}</ref>
* [[October 27]] &ndash; At [[Mandore]] (part of the modern-day state of [[Rajasthan]] in [[India]]), [[Ranmal|Rao Ranmal]], [[Kingdom of Marwar|King of Marwar]] is assassinated after becoming drunk during the festival of [[Diwali]], when one of his wives, Bharmali, ties him up and opens his bedroom door to admit a team of assassins.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hooja |first=Rima |title=A history of Rajasthan |publisher=Rupa & Co. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tosMAQAAMAAJ |year=2006 |page=337 |isbn=9788129108906 }}</ref> Ranmal's son, [[Jodha of Mandore|Rao Jodha]], becomes the new King.
* [[November 27]] &ndash; Following approval by the [[General Council of Scotland]], regents for King [[James II of Scotland]] give [[royal assent]] to the [[List of acts of the Parliament of Scotland from 1438|Inquisitions in Last Reign Act]], providing for the continuation of any [[inquisition]] by the Roman Catholic Church for [[heresy]] that had been started prior to the assassination of King James I.<ref>{{cite web |title=Index of Statutes: James II (1437-1460) |url=https://www.rps.ac.uk/static/statutes_jamesii.html |website=Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 |publisher=University of St Andrews}}</ref> 
* [[December 8]] &ndash; In [[Ming dynasty]] China, the [[Emperor Yingzong of Ming|Emperor Yingzong]] gives the order to his General, [[Mu Sheng]], to [[Luchuan–Pingmian campaigns|go to war]] against the state of the [[Dai people]] (on the border with the Burmese Kingdom of Ava)and their ruler, King [[Möng Mao]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fernquest|first=Jon|title=Crucible of War: Burma and the Ming in the Tai Frontier Zone (1382–1454)|date=Autumn 2006 |journal=SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research |page=57 |volume=4 |issue=2|url=https://www.academia.edu/3768911 }}</ref>
* [[December 13]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Brescia (1438–1440)|siege]] of [[Brescia]] in Italy, started on September 25 by troops of the [[Duchy of Milan]] under [[condottieri]] [[Niccolò Piccinino]] to liberate the city from its control by the [[Republic of Venice]], is raised after the arrival of [[Scaramuccia da Forlì]]. According to tradition, two Brescian martyrs from the second century, Saints [[Faustinus and Jovita]], appear on the top of the city walls and repel the cannonballs fired at the city, and the Milanese abandon the siege.<ref>"[http://www.enciclopediabresciana.it/enciclopedia/index.php?title=Nicolò|Nicolò Piccinino]", by Antonio Fappani, ''Enciclopedia Bresicana''</ref>