1692

This article is about the year 1692.

Year 1692 was a leap year that started on a Tuesday when using the Gregorian calendar.

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

June 1: Battle of La Hougue.

Events

January–June

• March 1 – The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony, with the charging of 3 women with witchcraft.
• 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 trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged for witchcraft.

July–December

• September 8 – An earthquake in Brabant of scale 5.8 is felt across the Low Countries, Germany and England.
• 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.
• Salem witch trials:
  • September 19 – Giles Corey is pressed to death, in an attempt to coerce a confession from him of witchcraft. By the end of September, 14 women and 5 men have been hanged.
  • September 22 – The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials are hanged; the remainder of those convicted are all eventually released.

• October 21 – In Barbados, a slave revolt is crushed.

Births

Elisabeth Farnese

• June 28 – Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland
• August 18 – Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740)
• October 25 – Elisabeth Farnese, queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1766)

Deaths

• July 19 – Rebecca Nurse, accused Massachusetts witch (b. 1621)