page_title: 1692
hierarchical_section_title: 1692
caption_attribution_description: On the left, is the 'Soleil Royal', in starboard-quarter view, the chief focal point. She's engaged on her right with 'Britannia', 100 guns, port-quarter view, preceded by 'London', 96 guns, followed by 'St Andrew', 96 guns. In the left in the background, the 'Royal William', 100 guns, is in close action with a French flagship. In left foreground, a French two-decker is sinking, stern on, with her crew transferring to a small boat under her stern. In right foreground a small dismasted English ketchd and the wreck of another ship is on the right in the foreground.
context_page_description: 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.
caption: June 1: Battle of La Hougue.
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