New York is subdivided into 12 counties: Albany, Dutchess, Orange, Ulster, and Westchester (upstate); Kings, New York County, Queens, Richmond (within New York City); Suffolk (eastern Long Island), and two areas not in New York state, Dukes County (now in Massachusetts) and Cornwall County (now 11 counties in Maine). December 7 – Algernon Sidney, opponent of King Charles II of England and author of the rebel tract Discourses Concerning Government is beheaded after having been arrested on June 25 and found guilty on November 7. December 25 – Kara Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire since 1676, is executed on orders of Sultan Mehmed IV after being blamed for the Ottoman loss of the Battle of Vienna on September 12. The execution is carried out in Belgrade as Kara Mustafa is strangled with a silk cord. The Sultan appoints Bayburtlu Kara Ibrahim Pasha as the new Grand Vizier. George Ducas, the Prince of Moldavia installed by the Ottomans in 1678, is arrested by Polish authorities while on his way back to Bucharest from the defeat by Poland in the Battle of Vienna. Ducas is replaced by Ștefan Petriceicu. December 27 – Richard Keigwin leads a rebellion against the East India Company to take over as Governor of Bombay and most of the British territory in India, driving out Governor Sir John Child and arresting the Deputy Governor, Charles Ward. Keigwin surrenders the office less than a year later. December – The River Thames in England freezes, allowing a frost fair to be held. Date unknown Wild boars are hunted to extinction in Britain. Births January 13 – Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760) January 29 – Juan de Galavís, Spanish Catholic Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Bogotá (d. 1739) February 4 – Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, French explorer of North America (d. 1765) February 28 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757) March 1 – Caroline of Ansbach, British queen and regent, wife of George II of Great Britain (d. 1737) April 3 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749) June 23 – Étienne Fourmont, French orientalist (d. 1745) September 7 – Maria Anna of Austria, Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Portugal (d. 1754) September 11 – Farrukhsiyar, Mughal Emperor (d. 1719) September 25 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (d. 1764) October 17 – Aixinjueluo Yuntang, born Aixinjueluo Yintang, Qing prince (d. 1726)