1692 Calendar
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1692 Historical Event(s)
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 On 1692?
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)
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 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)