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Year '1692' ('MDCXCII') was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1692

January - June

July - December

Births

Deaths

Events of 1692

January - June

★ February 13 - Massacre of Glencoe.

★ March 1 - The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony with the charging of three women with witchcraft.

★ June 1–3 - The battle of La Hougue is the decisive naval battle in the Nine Years War.

★ June 7 - Afternoon earthquake and three resultant tidal waves destroy Port Royal, capital of Jamaica and submerges major part of it - estimated 2000 immediate dead, 2300 injured, and a probable additional 2,000 dead from the diseases which ravaged the island in the following months.

★ June 8 - During a famine in Mexico City, an angry mob torches the Viceroy's palace and ignites the archives: most of the documents and some paintings are saved by royal geographer Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora.


★ June 10 - Salem witch trial investigations and convictions lead to several months of hangings. By the end of September twelve women, including Bridget Bishop, and six men had been hanged. Another man was tortured to death in an attempt to coerce a guilty plea from him.

July - December

★ September 14 - Diego de Vargas leads Spanish colonists in retaking the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico after a 12 year exile following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

Births

★ February 14 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (died 1754)

★ February 25 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (died 1775)

★ February 29 - John Byrom, English poet (died 1763)

★ April 5 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (died 1730)

★ April 8 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (died 1770)

★ April 22 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (died 1770)

★ May 18 - Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher (died 1752)

★ August 3 - John Henley, English minister (died 1759)

★ August 18 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (died 1740)

★ October 25 - Elizabeth Farnese, queen of Philip V of Spain (died 1766)

★ November 2 - Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (died 1766)

★ November 6 - Louis Racine, French poet (died 1763)

★ November 15 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (died 1775)

★ November 21 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (died 1768)
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Deaths

★ May 18 - Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (born 1617)

★ July 19 - Rebecca Nurse, accused witch (born 1621)

★ July 23 - Gilles Ménage, French scholar (born 1613)

★ September 19 - Giles Corey, American farmer and accused wizard (born c. 1612)

★ November 6 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (born 1619)

★ November 19 - Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright (born c.1642)

★ December 9 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist (born c.1664)

★ December 18 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (born 1626)
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