1692

This page lists news articles and events for the year 1692.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

Centuries:	16th Century		17th Century			18th Century
Decades:	1660s	1670s	1680s	1690s	1700s	1710s	1720s
Years:	1689	1690	1691	1692	1693	1694	1695

Undated

• Event: Thiess of Kaltenbrun is finally convicted of being a Werewolf, after twice voluntarily telling the courts about his lycanthropic status in previous years. He is flogged and exiled from his home in Swedish Livonia.
• Event:Salem Witch Trials: Across the space of a few months in Salem, Massachussets, 19 people are put to death because their neighbors accuse them of witchcraft.
• Ongoing: Nine Years' War

January

February

March

• March 1:
  • Event: Salem Witch Trials begin with 3 accusations of witchcraft.

April

May

June

• June 1-June 3:
  • Event: Nine Years' War: Anglo-Dutch fleet defeats the French fleet at Battle of La Hogue.
• June 7:
  • Event: Earthquake in Jamaica kills 2,000+
• June 10:
  • Event: First hanging victim of the Salem Witch Trials

July

August

September

• September 8:
  • Event: 5.8 Earthquake in the Duchy of Brabant in the Holy Roman Empire.
• September 14:
  • Event: 12 years after having been driven out by the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Spain reconquers Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• September 19:
  • Event: A defendant in the Salem Witch Trials dies during the third day of his interrogation by Pressing. He dies without confessing, being convicted, or even entering a plea of guilty or not guilty.
• September 22:
  • Event: The final hanging of the Salem Witch Trials. All told, 19 people (14 female, 5 male) have been put to death.

October

November

December