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1692

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File:Tituba-MaryWalcott-Longfellow.jpg: Salem witch trials: Tituba Parris becomes the first of 200 people arrested for trial on charges of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.]]

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File:The Battle of Barfleur, 19 May 1692 RMG BHC0332.tiff: French Navy attempt to invade England thwarted at Battle of La Hougue.]]

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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.J. E. Kaufmann and H. W. Kaufmann, The Forts and Fortifications of Europe 1815–1945: The Neutral States (Pen & Sword Military, 2014) p. 2
  • 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.Michael Lynn, Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-century France (Manchester University Press, 2018) pp. 97-98
  • August 12
  • The city of Ponce is founded in Puerto Rico.
  • A total solar eclipse is visible in the South Atlantic Ocean.{{Cite web|url=https://eclipsewise.com/solar/SEprime/1601-1700/SE1692Aug12Tprime.html|title=EclipseWise - Total Solar Eclipse of 1692 Aug 12|website=eclipsewise.com|author=Fred Espenak|accessdate=October 1, 2022}}
  • September 8 – An earthquake in Brabant of scale 5.8 is felt across the Low Countries, Germany and England.{{cite book|title=Agricultural Records|last=Stratton|first=J. M.|publisher=John Baker|year=1969|isbn=0-212-97022-4}}
  • September 14 – Diego de Vargas leads Spanish colonists in retaking the city of Santa Fe, after a 12-year exile, following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
  • September 19 – Giles 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

File:Petrus Wesseling.jpg born 7 January]]

File:Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée - Versailles MV 2981.jpg born 14 February]]

File:Kristián David (1692-1751).jpg born 17 February]]

File:John Byrom.jpg born 29 February]]

File:P v Musschenbroek t-E.jpg born 14 March]]

File:Highmore Joseph-Self-Portrait.jpg born 13 June]]

File:Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart.jpg born 28 June]]

File:Isabel de Farnesio.jpg born 25 October]]

File:Roslin Comte de Caylus.jpg born 31 October]]

File:Louis Racine.jpg born 6 November]]

File:Blumentrost.jpg born 8 November]]

= January–March =

= April–June =

= July–September =

= October–December =

Deaths

File:Fernando de valenzuela.jpg died 7 January]]

File:Wang Fuzhi.jpg died 18 February]]

File:Antimo Liberati by James Caldwall.jpg died 24 February]]

File:Eleanor Catherine of Hesse-Eschwege c 1646.jpg died 3 March]]

File:1629 Louise.jpg died 12 May]]

File:Elias Ashmole by John Riley.jpg died 18 May]]

File:Anonymous Painter - Portrait of Marie de Bourbon-Soissons, Princess of Carignano.jpg died 3 June]]

File:Bridget Bishop.jpg died 10 June]]

File:RebeccaNurse-inChains.jpg died 19 July]]

File:Gilles Ménage 1666.jpg died 23 July]]

File:Execution of Reverend George Burroughs.jpg died 19 August]]

File:SalemWitchcraftTrial.jpg died 19 August]]

File:Giles Corey restored.jpg died 19 September]]

File:Martha Corey and Persecutors.JPG died 22 September]]

File:Charles Fleetwood.jpg died 4 October]]

File:Thomas Shadwell from NPG.jpg died 19 November]]

File:Rev John Russell Minister of Hadley.jpg died 10 December]]

= January–March =

= April–June =

= July–September =

= October–December =

References

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