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1692

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File:Tituba-MaryWalcott-Longfellow.jpg
March 1: Salem witch trials: Tituba Parris becomes the first of 200 people arrested for trial on charges of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.

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File:The Battle of Barfleur, 19 May 1692 RMG BHC0332.tiff
June 14: French Navy attempt to invade England thwarted at Battle of La Hougue.

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Events

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January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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  • July 1 – The siege of the 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.<ref>J. E. Kaufmann and H. W. Kaufmann, The Forts and Fortifications of Europe 1815–1945: The Neutral States (Pen & Sword Military, 2014) p. 2</ref>
  • 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 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.<ref>Michael Lynn, Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-century France (Manchester University Press, 2018) pp. 97-98</ref>
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  • September 8 – An earthquake in Brabant of scale 5.8 is felt across the Low Countries, Germany and England.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • September 14Diego de Vargas leads Spanish colonists in retaking the city of Santa Fe, after a 12-year exile, following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
  • September 19Giles 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.

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Births

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File:Petrus Wesseling.jpg
Petrus Wesseling born 7 January
File:Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée - Versailles MV 2981.jpg
Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée born 14 February
File:Kristián David (1692-1751).jpg
Christian David born 17 February
File:John Byrom.jpg
John Byrom born 29 February
File:P v Musschenbroek t-E.jpg
Pieter van Musschenbroek born 14 March
File:Highmore Joseph-Self-Portrait.jpg
Joseph Highmore born 13 June
File:Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart.jpg
Louisa Maria Stuart born 28 June
File:Isabel de Farnesio.jpg
Elisabeth Farnese born 25 October
File:Roslin Comte de Caylus.jpg
Anne Claude de Caylus born 31 October
File:Louis Racine.jpg
Louis Racine born 6 November
File:Blumentrost.jpg
Laurentius Blumentrost born 8 November

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Deaths

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File:Fernando de valenzuela.jpg
Fernando de Valenzuela, 1st Marquis of Villasierra died 7 January
File:Wang Fuzhi.jpg
Wang Fuzhi died 18 February
File:Antimo Liberati by James Caldwall.jpg
Antimo Liberati died 24 February
File:Eleanor Catherine of Hesse-Eschwege c 1646.jpg
Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken died 3 March
File:1629 Louise.jpg
Princess Luisa Cristina of Savoy died 12 May
File:Elias Ashmole by John Riley.jpg
Elias Ashmole died 18 May
File:Anonymous Painter - Portrait of Marie de Bourbon-Soissons, Princess of Carignano.jpg
Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons died 3 June
File:Bridget Bishop.jpg
Bridget Bishop died 10 June
File:RebeccaNurse-inChains.jpg
Rebecca Nurse died 19 July
File:Gilles Ménage 1666.jpg
Gilles Ménage died 23 July
File:Execution of Reverend George Burroughs.jpg
George Burroughs died 19 August
File:SalemWitchcraftTrial.jpg
Martha Carrier (Salem witch trials) died 19 August
File:Giles Corey restored.jpg
Giles Corey died 19 September
File:Martha Corey and Persecutors.JPG
Martha Corey died 22 September
File:Charles Fleetwood.jpg
Charles Fleetwood died 4 October
File:Thomas Shadwell from NPG.jpg
Thomas Shadwell died 19 November
File:Rev John Russell Minister of Hadley.jpg
John Russell (clergyman) died 10 December

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October–December

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References

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