* 1613 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar ( d. 1692 )

* 1692 – Salem witch trials: in Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.

His father, David Ancillon ( 1617 – 1692 ), was obliged to leave France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and became pastor of the French Protestant community in Berlin.

* 1626 – Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman ( d. 1692 )

Eusebius Amort ( November 15, 1692 – February 5, 1775 ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian.

* 1692 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer ( d. 1754 )

* 1692 – John Byrom, English poet ( d. 1763 )

* 1621 – Rebecca Nurse, English colonist executed during Salem witch trials ( d. 1692 )

* 1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: About 78 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.

* 1632 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1692 )

The gegenschein was first described by the French Jesuit astronomer and professor Esprit Pézenas ( 1692 – 1776 ) in 1730.

# 1685 – 1692 John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough

# 1692 – 1696 Sir Stephen Evans

Volume one ( 1623 – 1692 ).

* 1692 – Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake ; in just three minutes, 1, 600 people are killed and 3, 000 are seriously injured.

* 1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for " certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries ".

* 1763 – Louis Racine, French poet ( b. 1692 )

* 1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts.

* 1653 – Sarah Good, American woman accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials ( d. 1692 )

* 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.

* 1692 – Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher ( d. 1752 )

* 1748 – Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer ( b. 1692 )

He also joined another revolutionary organisation, The Society for the Study of Wang Fuzhi ( Chuan-shan Hsüeh-she ) which had been founded by a number of Changsha literati who wished to emulate Wang Fuzhi ( 1619 – 1692 ), a philosopher who had become a symbol of Han resistance to Manchu invasion.

* 1617 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian ( d. 1692 )

* John Walker ( scholar ) ( 1692 ?– 1741 ), English classical scholar and Anglican archdeacon of Hereford

* September 26 – John Byron, English poet ( b. 1692 )

* October 13 – John Henley, English minister ( b. 1692 )

In 1692, Stefan Mikołaj Branicki, the son of Jan Klemens Branicki ( Marshal of the Crown Court ), obtained city rights for Białystok from King John III Sobieski.

In 1730, John Van Meter, with his brother Isaac ( 1692 – 1757 ), secured a patent for at the South Branch Potomac River, much of it located in present-day Berkeley County, from Virginia's Colonial Lieutenant Governor William Gooch.

* John J. O ' Connor, Edmund F. Robertson, James Stirling ( 1692 – 1770 ), ( September 1998 ).

Early in the morning of 13 February 1692, in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and the Jacobite uprising of 1689 led by John Graham of Claverhouse, a massacre took place in Glen Coe, in the Highlands of Scotland.

In 1692 he became chaplain to Edward Stillingfleet, bishop of Worcester, and for his support of the ruling party in a controversy with Henry Dodwell regarding the non-juring bishops he was appointed chaplain to Archbishop John Tillotson, an office which he continued to hold under Thomas Tenison.

* Joseph Butler ( 1692 – 1752 ) English bishop, theologian, apologist and philosopher who offered critiques of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and influenced figures such as David Hume, Thomas Reid, and Adam Smith

John Henley ( 3 August 1692 – 13 October 1756 ), English clergyman, commonly known as ' Orator Henley ', was a preacher known for showmanship and eccentricity.

The peerage became extinct in the person of his grandson Denzil Holles, 3rd Baron Holles, in c. 1692, the estates devolving on John Holles ( 1662 – 1711 ), 4th Earl of Clare and Duke of Newcastle.

In Salem Village in the winter months of 1692, Betty Parris, age 9, and her cousin Abigail Williams, age 11, the daughter and niece ( respectively ) of Reverend Parris, began to have fits described as " beyond the power of Epileptic Fits or natural disease to effect " by John Hale, minister in nearby Beverly.

Cotton Mather wrote to one of the judges, John Richards, a member of his congregation, on May 31, 1692, voicing his support of the prosecutions, but cautioning him " do not lay more stress on pure spectral evidence than it will bear ...

August 19, 1692, Martha Carrier, George Jacobs Sr., George Burroughs, John Willard and John Proctor were executed.

There were four execution dates, with one person executed on June 10, 1692, five executed on July 19, 1692 ( Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe & Sarah Wildes ), another five executed on August 19, 1692 ( Martha Carrier, John Willard, George Burroughs, George Jacobs, Sr. and John Proctor ), and eight on September 22, 1692 ( Mary Eastey, Martha Corey, Ann Pudeator, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Alice Parker, Wilmot Redd and Margaret Scott ).

* Ellis Walker, 1692, Epictetus, his Enchiridion made English in a poetical paraphrase.

* 1692 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher ( d. 1752 )

* 1692 – Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright

Elizabeth's nephew was Sir Anthony Aucher ( 1614 – 31 May 1692 ) an English politician and Cavalier during the English Civil War.

** Joseph Butler, English priest and theologian ( b. 1692 )

* May 23 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian ( d. 1692 )

* Job Charnock ( c. 1630 – 1692 ), English East India Company administrator traditionally regarded as the founder of the city of Calcutta

* Joseph Farrow ( 1652 ?– 1692 ), English cleric

Many English settlements along the coast were repeatedly attacked by Native Americans between 1689 and 1692, leading to the abandonment of some of the settlements, and bringing a flood of refugees into areas like Essex County.

Most of the fables in Hecatomythium were later translated in the second half of Roger L ' Estrange's Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists ( 1692 ); some also appeared among the 102 in H. Clarke's Latin reader, Select fables of Aesop: with an English translation ( 1787 ), of which there were both English and American editions.

John Byrom or John Byrom of Kersal or John Byrom of Manchester FRS ( 29 February 1692 – 26 September 1763 ) was an English poet and inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand.

In 1692, he convoyed supply ships from France and harassed English coastal settlements, taking three prizes.