recapture Belgrade. October 16 – Saint Lawrence Giustiniani (1381–1456) and Saint John of Sahagún (c. 1430 – 1479) are canonized by Pope Alexander VIII. October 21 – The play Amphitryon by John Dryden, based on Molière's 1668 play of the same name, receives its first performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. November 7 – The opera Énée et Lavinie (Aeneas and Lavinia) by the French composer Pascal Collasse receives its first performance at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera). November 9 – Near South Mimms, England, several highwaymen stop a convoy carying taxes from the Midlands to London and take £15,000. November 17 – Barclays, now a multinational bank and lending institution, is founded in London by John Freame and Thomas Gould as Freame & Gould. The bank changes its name in 1736 when James Barclay becomes a partner. December 4 – A destructive earthquake in the Eastern Alps causes 24 casualties and results in damage in the Villach, Carinthia area. December 13 – The planet Uranus is first sighted and recorded, by England's first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogs it as a star 34 Tauri. December 10 – Playwright Henry Nevil Payne is tortured for his role in the Montgomery Plot to restore James II to the throne — the last time a political prisoner is subjected to torture in Britain. December 20 – Tsar Peter the Great decrees that the Russian calendar will move New Year's Day to January 1 rather than September 1, effective January 1, 1692. On the Russian calendar (which still used the Julian system at that time, 10 days behind the Gregorian calendar which would be adopted more than 200 years later), 1691 began on what would now be considered September 11, 1690. December 29 – An earthquake hits Ancona, in the Papal States of Italy and causes ten deaths. Date unknown Serbian Patriarch Arsenije III Carnojevic leads the first of the two Great Serbian Migrations into the Habsburg Empire, following Ottoman atrocities in Kosovo. The Hearth Tax is abolished in Scotland, one year after its abolition in England and Wales. French physicist Denis Papin, while in Leipzig and having observed the mechanical power of atmospheric pressure on his 'digester', builds a working model of a reciprocating steam engine for pumping water, the first of its kind, though not efficient. Dutch polymath Christiaan Huygens publishes his book Treatise