* 1692 – John Henley, English clergyman ( d. 1759 )

* 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 )

The only death by peine forte et dure in American history was Giles Corey, who was pressed to death on September 19, 1692, during the Salem witch trials, after he refused to enter a plea in the judicial proceeding.

He was also descended from Mary Bradbury, who was tried at one of the Salem witch trials in 1692.

* 1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.

* November 22 – Francis Nurse, husband of Rebecca Nurse ( accused during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 ), b. 1618

** Salem witch trials of 1692, which took place there

The Salem witch trials followed in 1692 – 93.

Around 1580, Anyanka meets Dracula, and later is in Salem, Massachusetts, during the witch trials of 1692.

It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693.

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693.

Despite being generally known as the Salem witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in a variety of towns across the province: Salem Village ( now Danvers ), Ipswich, Andover and Salem Town.

The most infamous trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town.

He wrote, The following is the list of the 12 persons who were executed for witchcraft in New England before 1692, when 24 other persons were executed at Salem, whose names are well known.

* February 21 – Rebecca Nurse, accused witch ( d. 1692 )

The only death by peine forte et dure in American history was Giles Corey, who was pressed to death on September 19, 1692, during the Salem witch trials, after he refused to enter a plea in the judicial proceeding.

In 1692, Stamford was home to a less famous witch trial than the well-known Salem witch trials, which also occurred in 1692.

During the Salem witch trials in 1692, Andover resident Joseph Ballard asked for help for his wife from several girls in the neighboring Salem Village who were already identifying witches there.

* Elizabeth Howe ( d. 1692 ), born in Rowley and accused of being a witch

The Salem witch trials of 1692 touched Topsfield directly.