1692

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.
 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
 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)

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