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1692 in various 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); 4389 or 4182; — to —; 壬申年 (Water Monkey); 4390 or 4183
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	阴金羊年; (female Iron-Goat); 1818 or 1437 or 665; — to —; 阳水猴年; (male Water-Monkey); 1819 or 1438 or 666

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century; 17th century ; 18th century;
Decades:	1670s; 1680s; 1690s ; 1700s; 1710s;
Years:	1689; 1690; 1691; 1692 ; 1693; 1694; 1695;

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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

January 24 – At least 75 residents of what is now York, Maine, United States, are killed in the Candlemas Massacre, carried out by French soldiers led by missionary Louis-Pierre Thury, along with a larger force of Abenaki and Penobscot Indians under the command of Penobscot Chief Madockawando during King William's War, between the French colonists and their indigenous allies, against the English colonists. At least 112 English survivors are captured and taken from the Maine District of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and forced to walk to French Canada, where they are held until Massachusetts captain John Alden pays a ransom.
January 30 – English Army General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, a close adviser to King William III, is fired from all of his jobs by the English Secretary of State, the Earl of Nottingham, on orders of Queen Mary. He is later incarcerated briefly on charges of treason for allegedly contacting the dethroned King James II.
February 13 – Massacre of Glencoe: The forces of Robert Campbell slaughter around 40 members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe in Scotland (from whom they have previously accepted hospitality), for delaying to sign an oath of allegiance to King William III of England.^[1]
February 17 – An annular solar eclipse is visible across Russia, western Mongolia, Xinjiang, Iran, Afghanistan and Iran.^[2]
March 1 – The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony, with the charging of 3 women with witchcraft. Tituba, a slave owned by Samuel Parris, is the first to be arrested, and she implicates Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne, who are arrested later in the day. Osborne dies in prison in May, while Good is hanged in July; Tituba is set free after confessing to committing witchcraft.
March 22 – The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing dynasty issues the Edict of Toleration, recognizing all the members of the Roman Catholic Church, not just the Jesuits, and legalizing missions and their conversion of Chinese people to the Christian Faith.^[3]

April–June

April 18 – Giles Corey, Mary Warren, Abigail Hobbs and Bridget Bishop, all residents of Salem, Massachusetts, are arrested and charged with the practice of witchcraft. Corey and Bishop are later executed, while Warren and Hobbs avoid a death sentence.
May 2 – The first performace of the semi-opera The Fairy-Queen by Henry Purcell, based on William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, takes place at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden in London.
May 29 (May 19 OS) – Nine Years' War: Battle of Barfleur – The Anglo-Dutch fleet breaks the French line off the Cotentin Peninsula, foiling the French plan to invade England.^[4]
June 13–14 (June 3–4 OS) – Nine Years' War: Battle of La Hogue – The action begun at Barfleur ends with further destruction of the French fleet.^[4]
June 7 – Jamaica earthquake: An earthquake and related tsunami destroy Port Royal, capital of Jamaica, and submerge a major part of it; an estimated 2,000 are immediately killed, 2,300 injured, and a probable additional 2,000 die from the diseases which ravage the island in the following months.
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 – The Salem witch trials' first victim, Bridget Bishop, is hanged for witchcraft.

July–September

July 1 – The siege of the strategically-located 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.^[5]
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 follows clues to a nearby town, Beaucaire, and 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.^[6]
August 12 – The city of Ponce is founded in Puerto Rico.
August 12 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the South Atlantic Ocean.^[7]
September 8 – An earthquake in Brabant of scale 5.8 is felt across the Low Countries, Germany and England.^[8]
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.
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, and the sentence is carried out on April 4.

October –December

October 21 – In Barbados, a slave revolt is crushed.
October 30 – The King of Spain donates the lands that become the municipalities of San Francisco and Mapulaca in the Lempira department in Honduras.
November 5 – Mohamed bin Hajj Ali Thukkala becomes the new Sultan of the Maldives as Muhammad Ali IV.
November 8 – William Mountfort's play Henry The Second, King Of England; With The Death Of Rosamond is given its first performance, premiering at the Drury Lane Theatre.
December 5 – John Goldsborough arrives in Madras as the new administrator of the British East India Company.
December 14 – Maratha Empire General Santaji Ghorpade defeats Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb's General Alimardan Khan, captures him and brings him back to fort Jinjee near Madras.
December 23 – Nahum Tate is named as the new Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and serves for 22 years until his death.
December 24 – The French ship Soleil Royal, a three-decker First Rank ship with 104 guns, is launched at Brest Dockyard.

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