1692

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.

June 1: Battle of La Hougue.

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

1692 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1692 MDCXCII
Ab urbe condita	2445
Armenian calendar	1141 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԱ
Assyrian calendar	6442
Balinese saka calendar	1613–1614
Bengali calendar	1099
Berber calendar	2642
English Regnal year	4 Will. & Mar. – 5 Will. & Mar.
Buddhist calendar	2236
Burmese calendar	1054
Byzantine calendar	7200–7201
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4388 or 4328     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4389 or 4329
Coptic calendar	1408–1409
Discordian calendar	2858
Ethiopian calendar	1684–1685
Hebrew calendar	5452–5453
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1748–1749
- Shaka Samvat	1613–1614
- Kali Yuga	4792–4793
Holocene calendar	11692
Igbo calendar	692–693
Iranian calendar	1070–1071
Islamic calendar	1103–1104
Japanese calendar	Genroku 5 (元禄５年)
Javanese calendar	1615–1616
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4025
Minguo calendar	220 before ROC 民前220年
Nanakshahi calendar	224
Thai solar calendar	2234–2235
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Sheep) 1818 or 1437 or 665     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 1819 or 1438 or 666

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.^[1]
• 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)