1692

March 1: Salem witch trials: Tituba Parris becomes the first of 200 people arrested for trial on charges of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
1692 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1692
MDCXCII
Ab urbe condita2445
Armenian calendar1141
ԹՎ ՌՃԽԱ
Assyrian calendar6442
Balinese saka calendar1613–1614
Bengali calendar1098–1099
Berber calendar2642
English Regnal yearWill. & Mar. – 5 Will. & Mar.
Buddhist calendar2236
Burmese calendar1054
Byzantine calendar7200–7201
Chinese calendar辛未年 (Metal Goat)
4389 or 4182
    — to —
壬申年 (Water Monkey)
4390 or 4183
Coptic calendar1408–1409
Discordian calendar2858
Ethiopian calendar1684–1685
Hebrew calendar5452–5453
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1748–1749
 - Shaka Samvat1613–1614
 - Kali Yuga4792–4793
Holocene calendar11692
Igbo calendar692–693
Iranian calendar1070–1071
Islamic calendar1103–1104
Japanese calendarGenroku 5
(元禄5年)
Javanese calendar1615–1616
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar4025
Minguo calendar220 before ROC
民前220年
Nanakshahi calendar224
Thai solar calendar2234–2235
Tibetan calendarལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་
(female Iron-Sheep)
1818 or 1437 or 665
    — to —
ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་
(male Water-Monkey)
1819 or 1438 or 666
June 14: French Navy attempt to invade England thwarted at Battle of La Hougue.

1692 (MDCXCII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1692nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 692nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1690s decade. As of the start of 1692, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

  • July 1 – The siege of the Belgian city of Namur in the Spanish Netherlands ends as Dutch General Menno van Coehoorn capitulates to King Louis XIV of France after five weeks. The siege, a battle in the ongoing Nine Years War, had begun on May 24.[4]
  • July 5 – Wine shop owner Antoine Savetier and his wife are murdered by thieves in the French city of Lyon, and a peasant named Jacques Aymar-Vernay is called in as a detective to solve the case. Aymar finds one of the perpetrators, Joseph Arnoul, who confesses to the crime and implicates two accomplices who manage to escape. Arnoul is executed by being "broken on the wheel" on August 30.[5]
  • August 12
  • September 8 – An earthquake in Brabant of scale 5.8 is felt across the Low Countries, Germany and England.[7]
  • September 14Diego de Vargas leads Spanish colonists in retaking the city of Santa Fe, after a 12-year exile, following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
  • September 19Giles Corey is pressed to death in an attempt to coerce a confession from him of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • September 22 – The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials are hanged. By the end of September, 14 women and 5 men have been executed by hanging. The remainder of those convicted are all eventually released.
  • September 27 – The trial for sorcery of Anne Palles of Denmark begins, and she gives a long confession of giving her body and soul to Satan. The court finds her guilty on November 2 and sentences her to death.

October–December


Births

Petrus Wesseling born 7 January
Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée born 14 February
Christian David born 17 February
John Byrom born 29 February
Pieter van Musschenbroek born 14 March
Joseph Highmore born 13 June
Louisa Maria Stuart born 28 June
Elisabeth Farnese born 25 October
Anne Claude de Caylus born 31 October
Louis Racine born 6 November
Laurentius Blumentrost born 8 November

January–March

April–June

  • April 1 – William, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (d. 1761)
  • April 4
    • James Carnegie, 5th Earl of Southesk, Scottish earl (d. 1730)
    • André Souste, Royal Notary in Canada (d. 1776)
  • April 5
  • April 7 – Pietro Marchesini, Italian painter (d. 1757)
  • April 8Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1770)
  • April 22James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770)
  • April 29 – Jean Armand de Lestocq, French adventurer (d. 1767)
  • May 3 – Jan Jacob Mauricius, Dutch diplomat (d. 1768)
  • May 9 – Giuseppe Agostino Orsi, Catholic cardinal (d. 1761)
  • May 10 – John Brailsford the elder, English poet (d. 1739)
  • May 11 – Sir Thomas Sebright, 4th Baronet, English politician, 1692–1736 (d. 1736)
  • May 16Dolly Pentreath, last known native speaker of the Cornish language prior to its revival in 1904 (d. 1777)
  • May 17 – Edward Lisle, British Member of Parliament (d. 1753)
  • May 18 – (O.S) Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher (d. 1752)[9]
  • May 25 – Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar, Scottish earl (d. 1715)
  • May 28
    • Geminiano Giacomelli, Italian composer (d. 1740)
    • Karl von Haimhausen, German missionary (d. 1767)
  • June 13Joseph Highmore, British artist (d. 1780)
  • June 15
    • Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, Italian painter (d. 1768)
    • Ōkubo Tadamasa, daimyo (d. 1732)
  • June 28Louisa Maria Stuart, British princess (d. 1712)
  • June 29 – Jean-François Du Bellay du Resnel, French Roman Catholic priest (d. 1761)

July–September

  • July 1 – Antonio Sandini, Italian ecclesiastical historian (d. 1751)
  • July 7 – Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, British politician and noble (d. 1722)
  • July 16 – Antoine Thiout, clockmaker (d. 1767)
  • July 19 – Frederick William, Duke of Courland (d. 1711)
  • July 24 – Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet, British politician (d. 1751)
  • August 3 – John Henley, English clergyman (d. 1756)
  • August 6 – Peter Burrell, politician (d. 1756)
  • August 8 – Juan Manuel de la Puente, Spanish composer (d. 1753)
  • August 14 – Frederick Anton, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (d. 1744)
  • August 18
  • August 27 – Jacob Christiaan Pielat, Dutch colonial governor (d. 1740)
  • August 29 – Nicolas Grozelier, French writer (d. 1778)
  • September 1 – Egid Quirin Asam, German sculptor (d. 1750)
  • September 11 – Ingela Gathenhielm, Swedish privateer (d. 1729)
  • September 12 – Christine Eleonore of Stolberg-Gedern (d. 1745)
  • September 15 – Anselm Franz von Ritter zu Groenesteyn, German architect (d. 1765)
  • September 16 – Johanna Elisabeth Döbricht, German soprano (d. 1786)
  • September 25 – Franz Albert Schultz, German academic (d. 1763)
  • September 26
    • Ernst von Steinberg, Hanoverian minister and head of the German Chancery in London (d. 1759)
    • Pietro Antonio Trezzini, Russian architect (d. 1760)
  • September 27 – Georg Heinrich Zincke, German academic (d. 1769)

October–December

Deaths

Fernando de Valenzuela, 1st Marquis of Villasierra died 7 January
Wang Fuzhi died 18 February
Antimo Liberati died 24 February
Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken died 3 March
Princess Luisa Cristina of Savoy died 12 May
Elias Ashmole died 18 May
Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons died 3 June
Bridget Bishop died 10 June
Rebecca Nurse died 19 July
Gilles Ménage died 23 July
George Burroughs died 19 August
Martha Carrier (Salem witch trials) died 19 August
Giles Corey died 19 September
Martha Corey died 22 September
Charles Fleetwood died 4 October
Thomas Shadwell died 19 November
John Russell (clergyman) died 10 December

January–March

April–June

  • April 2 – Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, Scottish noble (b. 1595)
  • April 5 – Tomás Carbonell, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1620)
  • April 6 – Emmanuel Schelstrate, Belgian theologian (b. 1649)
  • April 14 – Carlos de Aragón de Gurrea, 9th Duke of Villahermosa, Spanish nobleman, viceroy and governor (b. 1634)
  • April 17 – Abraham-César Lamoureux, French sculptor who worked mainly in Sweden and Denmark (b. 1640)
  • April 22
  • April 23
    • Giuseppe Eusanio, Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Porphyreon (b. 1619)
    • Edward Howard, 2nd Earl of Carlisle, English politician (b. 1646)
    • Pieter Withoos, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1655)
    • Johannes Zollikofer, Swiss vicar (b. 1633)
  • April 30 – Kim Man-jung, Korean novelist and politician (b. 1637)
  • May 3 – Edward Evelyn, British politician (b. 1626)
  • May 4 – Charles III, Duke of Elbeuf, French noble (b. 1620)
  • May 6 – Nathaniel Lee, English dramatist (b. 1653)
  • May 9 – Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels, German prince (b. 1659)
  • May 12Princess Luisa Cristina of Savoy, Princess of Savoy (b. 1629)
  • May 14Robert Kirk, Scottish folklorist, Bible translator, Gaelic scholar (b. 1644)
  • May 18Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (b. 1617)
  • May 21 – John Jones, English merchant and politician (b. 1610)
  • May 31
    • Anthony Aucher, English politician (b. 1614)
    • Nicholas Dennys, English politician (b. 1616)
    • Michele Foscarini, Italian historian (b. 1632)
    • Thomas Jones, English politician and judge (b. 1614)
  • June 3Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons, wife of Thomas Francis (b. 1606)
  • June 7 – Pierre Bailloquet, Jesuit missionary to the Canadian Indians (b. 1612)
  • June 8 – Henri Arnauld, French bishop (b. 1597)
  • June 9 – Rebecca Rawson, Massachusetts heroine of the 1849 book Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal (b. 1656)
  • June 10Bridget Bishop, woman executed for witchcraft during Salem witch trials (b. 1632)
  • June 18 – Michelangelo Falvetti, Italian composer (b. 1642)
  • June 21 – Christian Louis I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1623)
  • June 23 – Gerard Langbaine, English dramatic biographer and critic (b. 1656)

July–September

  • July 7 – Eusébio de Matos, Brazilian orator, religious and painter (b. 1629)
  • July 10 – Heinrich Bach, German organist and composer (b. 1615)
  • July 14 – Patrick Russell, Irish bishop (b. 1629)
  • July 19
  • July 22 – Pietro del Pò, Italian painter (b. 1616)
  • July 23Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
  • July 31 – William Harbord, British politician (b. 1635)
  • August 1 – Sir John Carew, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament of England (b. 1635)
  • August 3
    • James Douglas, Earl of Angus, Scottish nobleman and soldier (b. 1671)
    • Frederick, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, German nobleman (b. 1652)
  • August 4 – Jean-Michel-d'Astorg Aubarède, Vicar Capitular of Pamiers (b. 1639)
  • August 12 – Nathaniel Colburn, early settler and selectman in Dedham (b. 1611)
  • August 14 – Nicolas Chorier, French historian, lawyer and writer (b. 1612)
  • August 19
  • August 23Randall Holden, colonial Rhode Island settler (b. 1612)
  • August 24 – William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy, Anglo-Irish peer and soldier (b. 1653)
  • August 25 – Aleijda Wolfsen, painter from the Northern Netherlands (b. 1648)
  • September 3 – David Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor and author (b. 1617)
  • September 4 – Claus Røyem, Dano-Norwegian civil servant and government official (b. 1638)
  • September 6 – Hartvig Asche von Schack (b. 1644)
  • September 15 – César Vichard de Saint-Réal, French polyglot (b. 1639)
  • September 19Giles Corey, Massachusetts farmer and accused wizard (b. 1611)
  • September 21 – Ermes di Colorêt, Italian poet, political figure (b. 1622)
  • September 22
    • Martha Corey, convicted of being a witch during the 1692 Salem witch trials (b. 1619)
    • Mary Eastey, woman executed in the Salem witch trials (b. 1634)
    • Mary Parker, Massachusetts colony member accused of witchcraft (b. 1637)
    • Margaret Scott, hanged as part of the Salem witch trials (b. 1615)
    • Samuel Wardwell, hanged as part of the Salem witch trials (b. 1643)
  • September 28 – Cornelis Bloemaert, Dutch painter (b. 1603)

October–December

  • October 1 – Diego de Aguilar, Spanish bishop (b. 1616)
  • October 2Ann Pudeator, woman executed in the Salem witch trials (b. 1621)
  • October 4Charles Fleetwood, English Parliamentarian soldier and politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1618)
  • October 5
    • David Atwater, American colonist (b. 1615)
    • Alfonso Bernardo de los Ríos y Guzmán, archbishop of Granada (b. 1626)
  • October 12 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer (b. 1632)
  • October 15 – Johannes Maximus Stainer von Pleinfelden, Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Passau (b. 1610)
  • October 16 – Christian Albert, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1675)
  • October 23 – Alexander von Spaen, German general (b. 1619)
  • October 25 – Jasper Schade van Westrum, Dutch representative to the States-General (b. 1623)
  • October 27 – Anna Mikhailovna of Russia (b. 1630)
  • October 29Melchisédech Thévenot, French scientist (b. 1620)
  • October 30 – William Bentney, English priest (b. 1609)
  • November 2 – Thomas Rudyard, American politician (b. 1640)
  • November 10 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)
  • November 13
    • Mary Browne, courtier (b. 1593)
    • Joseph de la Vega, Jewish Hispano-Dutch merchant, poet, and philanthropist (b. 1650)
  • November 14 – Christoph Bernhard, German composer (b. 1628)
  • November 16 – Theodore Poulakis, Greek artist (b. 1622)
  • November 18
    • Robert Holmes, British Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1622)
    • Christopher Nevile, English politician (b. 1631)
  • November 19
  • November 21 – Henry Powle, English politician (b. 1630)
  • November 22 – Giovanni Battista Centurione, politician (b. 1603)
  • November 26
    • Sir John Fowell, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1665)
    • Edmund Ludlow, English politician, soldier and regicide (1617–92) (b. 1617)
  • December 5
    • Jacques Bizard, Canadian politician (b. 1642)
    • Aldegonde Desmoulins, Belgian nun (b. 1611)
  • December 6 – John Tyrrell, Royal Navy officer (b. 1646)
  • December 7 – Richard Meggot, English churchman, Canon of Windsor and Dean of Winchester (b. 1632)
  • December 9 – William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist (b. c. 1664)
  • December 10 – John Russell, Anglo-American clergyman (b. 1626)
  • December 13
    • Conyers Darcy, 2nd Earl of Holderness, English politician (b. 1622)
    • Henry Mildmay, English politician (b. 1619)
  • December 15 – Georg Adam Struve, German judge (b. 1619)
  • December 16 – Antonio Carneo, Italian painter (b. 1637)
  • December 18 – Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German politician (b. 1626)
  • December 24Maria Antonia of Austria, Archduchess of Austria (b. 1669)

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