for the disposal of the property of missing persons. September 16 – The Apostasy of Sabbatai Zevi begins in Istanbul. October–December October 10 – A "day of humiliation and fasting" is held in London churches a month after the Great Fire of London. October 11 – The Sieur de Buat, Captain Henri de Fleury de Coulan of the Army of the Dutch Republic, is beheaded in public at The Hague after being convicted of attempting to overthrow Dutch leader Johan de Witt. October 17 – In North America, a French Army regiment led by Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy erects crosses in the Mohawk lands of the eastern Iroquois Confederacy territory along the Mohawk River as part of an invasion that started on September 29. During the expedition, Prouville's forces find four abandoned Mohawk villages in the area, located in the modern U.S. state of New York near the village of Schenectady but never confront any Mohawk defenders, and the French never attempt to enforce their claim. October 23 – The most intense tornado on record in English history, an F4 storm on the Fujita scale or T8 on the TORRO scale, strikes the county of Lincolnshire with a path of destruction through the villages of Welbourn, Wellingore, Navenby and Boothby Graffoe, with winds of more than . October 26 – Abbas II, the Shah of Iran, dies at the age of 34 after a reign of 24 years, without designating a successor. His 18-year old son Sam Mirza is crowned as the new Safavid dynasty emperor six days later. October 27 – Robert Hubert, a Frenchman who had made a false confession to having started the Great Fire of London (despite not arriving in England until two days after the blaze started), is executed based on his statements. November 28 – The Battle of Rullion Green takes place in the Pentland Hills near Midlothian in Scotland) as the culmination of the brief 'Pentland Rising' which began on November 15 as a rebellion by the Covenanters who opposed changes in the Church of Scotland. At least 2,000 men of the Scottish Royal Army, led by General Thomas Dalyell, defeat more than 750 Covenanter rebels who had been under the command of James Wallace of Auchens. December 12 – A sobor (church council) of the Russian Orthodox Church deposes Patriarch Nikon of Moscow, but accepts his liturgical reforms. Dissenters from his