1692 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1692?
- February 13, 1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
- March 1, 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
- June 2, 1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
- June 7, 1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
- June 10, 1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries”.
- August 19, 1692 – Salem witch trials: in Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
- September 19, 1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
- September 22, 1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft in Britain’s North American colonies.
- October 12, 1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.
Who Were Born In The Year 1692?
- February 14, 1692 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (d. 1754)
- February 25, 1692 – Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)
- February 29, 1692 – John Byrom, English poet (d. 1763)
- April 5, 1692 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
- April 8, 1692 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (d. 1770)
- April 22, 1692 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770)
- May 28, 1692 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (d. 1752)
- August 3, 1692 – John Henley, English clergyman (d. 1759)
- August 18, 1692 – Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740)
- October 31, 1692 – Comte de Caylus, French archaeologist (d. 1765)
- November 2, 1692 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766)
- November 6, 1692 – Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
- November 15, 1692 – Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
- November 21, 1692 – Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (d. 1768)
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