Year1692

Historical Events in 1692

Feb 13 Glencoe Massacre: about 38 MacDonalds killed early in the morning by rival Campbell clan members, allegedly for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange

Salem Witch Trials

Feb 29 First people are accused of witchcraft, and arrested in Salem, Massachusetts - Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, a West Indian slave

Mar 1 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are interrogated after accusations that they were practitioners of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Mar 22 Emperor Leopold I names Duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king
Mar 26 King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
Apr 22 Edward Bishop is jailed for proposing flogging as a cure for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts
May 27 William Phips, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony authorizes a special Court of Oyer and Terminer ("to hear and determine"), to administer Salem witch trials[1]
May 29 Battle at La Hogue: English and Dutch fleet beat France
May 29 Royal Hospital Chelsea Founder's Day first celebrated in London

Jun 7 An earthquake in Port Royal, Jamaica, kills 3,000 and sinks the cemetery whereHenry Morgan was buried into the sea

Jun 10 The 1st victim of the Salem witch trials, Bridget Bishop, is hanged after being found guilty of witchcraft in the Colony of Massachusetts[1]
Jun 24 Kingston, Jamaica, founded after Port Royal at mouth of the harbour destroyed by an earthquake
Jul 19 Five more people - Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth How, Sarah Good, and Sarah Wildes - hanged for allegedly practicing witchcraft as a result of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts Bay Colony[1]

Aug 3 Battle of Steenkerque: French defeatWilliam III's combined English/Dutch army

Aug 19 Five more people - George Jacobs, Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John Proctor and John Willard - hanged for allegedly practicing witchcraft as a result of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts Bay Colony[1]
Sep 19 Giles Corey (71) is taken to an open field and pressed to death under heavy stones after refusing to recognize the authority of Salem witch trial's Court of Oyer and Terminer[1]
Sep 22 The last eight people - Martha Corey, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker - hanged for allegedly practicing witchcraft as a result of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts Bay Colony; 19 hanged overall, with six other deaths caused by the hysteria[1]
Oct 29 Special Court of Oyer and Terminer, convened for Salem witch trials, dissolved by the Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony[1]
Dec 23 Nahum Tate is appointed the third Poet Laureate by English monarchs William and Mary