1692

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720s
Years:	1689 1690 1691 - 1692 - 1693 1694 1695

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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).

Events of 1692

February 13 – Massacre of Glencoe: The forces of Robert Campbell slaughter 38 members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe for allegedly refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to King William III of England.
March 1 – The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony, with the charging of 3 women with witchcraft.
1-3 June – The Battle of La Hougue is the decisive naval battle in the Nine Years' War, ending in an Anglo-Dutch victory.

June 10: The Salem witch trials begin months of hangings.

June 7 – An afternoon earthquake and three resultant tidal waves destroy Port Royal, capital of Jamaica and submerges a major part of it – an estimated 2,000 are immediately killed, 2,300 injured, and a probable additional 2,000 die from the diseases which ravage 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 14 women, including Bridget Bishop, and 5 men had been hanged. Another man tortured to death in an attempt to coerce a guilty plea from him by crushing him with rocks.

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.

See also Category: 1692 births.

May 6 – Nathaniel Lee, English dramatist(b. c. 1653)
May 9 – Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels, German prince (b. 1659)
May 18 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (b. 1617)
June 7 – Pierre Bailloquet, Jesuit missionary to the Canadian Indians (b. 1612)
July 19 – Rebecca Nurse, accused witch (b. 1621)
July 23 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
August 3 – James Douglas, Earl of Angus, Scottish nobleman and soldier (b. 1671)
August 4 – Jean-Michel-d'Astorg Aubarede, Vicar Capitular of Pamiers (b. 1639)
September 19 – Giles Corey, American farmer and accused wizard (b. c. 1612)
November 6 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)
November 19 – Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright (b. c.1642)
December 9 – William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist (b. c.1664)
December 18 – Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (b. 1626)

See also Category: 1692 deaths.

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