1692

	1692 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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

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).

[edit] 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.
March 22 – The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty issues the Edict of Toleration recognizing all the Roman Catholic Church, not just the Jesuits, and legalizing missions and their conversion of Chinese people.^[1]
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, Giles Corey was 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.

^ "In the Light and Shadow of an Emperor: Tomás Pereira, S.J. (1645–1708), the Kangxi Emperor and the Jesuit Mission in China", An International Symposium in Commemoration of the 3rd Centenary of the death of Tomás Pereira, S.J., Lisbon, Portugal and Macau, China, 2008, archived from the original on 2009-08-21, http://www.webcitation.org/5jCsxGlBp, retrieved 2009-08-15