For the same theatre be composed La Lolta d ' Ercole con Achilleo in 1689, La Superbia d ' Alessandro in 1690, Orlando generoso in 1691, Le Rivali concordi in 1692, La Liberia contenta in 1693, I Trionfi del Job and I Baccanali in 1695, and Briseide in 1696.

The highest were in Salem, Massachusetts ( on Gallows Hill, the famous site of the execution of 13 women and 6 men for witchcraft in 1692 during the Salem witch trials, where the tradition of bonfires in celebration had persisted ), composed of as many as forty tiers of barrels ; these are the tallest bonfires ever recorded.

The lands for this municipality were given away by the King of Spain, on October 30, 1692, composed of 2 titles, " Santa Maria Magdalena " and " San Lucas ".

Despite the success of his masterwork Dido and Aeneas ( 1689 ), in which the action is furthered by the use of Italian-style recitative, much of Purcell's best work was not involved in the composing of typical opera, but instead he usually worked within the constraints of the semi-opera format, where isolated scenes and masques are contained within the structure of a spoken play, such as Shakespeare in Purcell's The Fairy-Queen ( 1692 ) and Beaumont and Fletcher in The Prophetess ( 1690 ) and Bonduca ( 1696 ).

Despite the success of his masterwork Dido and Aeneas ( 1689 ), in which the action is furthered by the use of Italian-style recitative, much of Purcell's best work was not involved in the composing of typical opera, but instead he usually worked within the constraints of the semi-opera format, where isolated scenes and masques are contained within the structure of a spoken play, such as Shakespeare in Purcell's The Fairy-Queen ( 1692 ) and Beaumont and Fletcher in The Prophetess ( 1690 ) and Bonduca ( 1696 ).

* The Fairy-Queen ( 1692 ), a semi-opera by Purcell

The Holy See disagreed, deeming the veneration an act of worship and hence idolatry, and forbade any adaptation in the so-called Chinese Rites controversy in 1692 and 1742.

Sir Henry Wotton's 1624 version The Elements of Architecture was more of a free adaptation than a literal translation, while a 1692 translation was much abbreviated.

The play was Shakespeare's most popular printed text: new editions appeared in 1599, 1604, 1608, 1613, 1622, 1632, 1639, and 1692.

The History and Fall of Caius Marius, produced in the same year, and printed in 1692, is a curious grafting of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet on the story of Marius as related in Plutarch's Lives.

* Thomas Rhymer's notorious attack on Othello ( 1692 ), which in the end did Shakespeare's reputation more good than harm, by firing up John Dryden, John Dennis and other influential critics into writing eloquent replies.

In 1875 Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse came out, a definitive collection of allusions to Shakespeare and his works between 1592 and 1692.

* Kim Manjung ( 1637 – 1692 ) wrote the Dream of Nine Clouds ( 구운몽 ).

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.

In 1692, Defoe was arrested for debts of £ 700 ( and his civets were seized ), though his total debts may have amounted to £ 17, 000 His laments were loud and he always defended unfortunate debtors but there is evidence that his financial dealings were not always honest.

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

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.

Other notable violinists included Antonio Vivaldi ( 1678 – 1741 ) and Giuseppe Tartini ( 1692 – 1770 ), who, in their compositions, reflected the increasing technical and musical demands on the violinist.

These were Arecibo ( 1614 ), Aguada ( 1692 ) and Ponce ( 1692 ).

Sent on a mission by the Dutch East India Company, Engelbert Kaempfer ( 1651 – 1716 ), a German physician and botanist who lived in Japan from 1690 until 1692, ushered in this tradition of a combination of physician and botanist.

In opposition to French Catholic bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet he published Some Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont ( 1690 ), and Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of the Albigenses ( 1692 ), with the idea of showing that the Albigensians were not Manichaeans, but historically identical with the Waldenses.

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

But Pope Innocent XII abolished nepotism and the office of Legate in Avignon on 7 February 1693, handing over its temporal government in 1692 to the Congregation of Avignon ( i. e. a department of the papal Curia, residing at Rome ), with the Cardinal Secretary of State as presiding prefect, and exercising its jurisdiction through the vice-legate.

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.

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

* Jean II Restout ( 1692 – 1768 ), painter

* Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a historic state ( 1692 / 1708-1814 ), then upgraded to the Kingdom of Hanover

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

In 1692, Quesnel published a book which he had been working on since 1668, Réflexions morales sur le Nouveau Testament ( Moral Reflections on the New Testament ), a devotional guide to the New Testament which laid out the Jansenist position in strong terms.

* Pieter van Musschenbroek, ( 1692 – 1761 ), scientist

Soon thereafter, Leibniz used the term extensively in Latin in his Mathematische Schriften ( 1692 ), after which it became a standardized mathematical term.

* Sally Salisbury ( c. 1692 – 1724 ), 18th century high-end prostitute whose real name was Sarah Pridden

* Princess Louise Christine of Savoy ( Turin, 27 July 1629 – Turin, 14 May 1692 ), married her uncle Prince Maurice of Savoy

Such is the case in Hail, bright Cecilia ( The Ode on St Cecilia's Day 1692 ) in which the solo "' Tis Nature's Voice " has the range F < sub > 3 </ sub > to B < sub > 4 </ sub > ( similar to those stage roles cited previously ), whereas, in the duet " Hark each tree " the countertenor soloist sings from E < sub > 4 </ sub > to D < sub > 5 </ sub > ( in the trio " With that sublime celestial lay ".

In September 1692, Sibbald found a blue whale that had stranded in the Firth of Forth — a male 78-feet-long — which had " black, horny plates " and " two large apertures approaching a pyramid in shape ".

In 1692, as a result of the inheritance of the Palatinate by a Catholic branch of the Wittelsbach family, which threatened to upset the religious balance of the College of Electors, the number of electors was increased to nine, with a seat being granted to the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who became known as the Elector of Hanover ( the Reichstag officially confirmed the creation in 1708 ).

Following the destruction of Port Royal in the great earthquake of 1692 refugees settled across the bay in Kingston which by 1716 had become the biggest town in Jamaica and became the capital city in 1872.

The town was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692, after which Kingston became the main coastal settlement.

It was in the Irish camp with Schomberg that Abbadie commenced one of his most successful works, which was published at Rotterdam in 1692, as L ' Art de se connoître soi-même ; ou, La Recherche des Sources de la Morale, and went through many editions and amplifications.

In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons.

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

The motto was taken in turn from Gentleman's Journal, a similar magazine which ran briefly from 1692 to 1694.

There were previously a number of other non-conformist chapels in Shepton, the most notable of which is the Unitarian Chapel on Cowl Street which was built in 1692 and enlarged in 1758 ; it is now a private dwelling.

In 1692, the Maryland Assembly established the Church of England as the " established church " of the province, which put pressure on the Quakers and Presbyterians, whose numbers in the county began a slow decline until the American Revolution.

The incomplete form in which the Satyricon survives has tantalized many readers, and between 1692 and the present several writers have attempted to round the story out.

The township, which was founded in 1692, is almost as old as the state of Pennsylvania itself, which was founded in 1682.

This edition was edited by Robert Scott-Moncrieff, and focused mainly on the entries from 1692 to 1718, which gives extensive details about the early years of the Baillies ' marriage, the births and upbringing of their children and the marriages of their daughters.

In 1692, it was annexed to Saxe-Eisenach and, in 1741, to the Duchy ( later Grand Duchy ) of Saxe-Weimar, to which it belonged until 1918.

Decision 93 / 629 / EEC expired on 30th June 1995 so it was further expanded by the Decision No 1692 / 96 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 on Community guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network, which added definition not only to the proposed road network, but to other Trans-European Transport Networks ( TEN-T ), as they came to be called.

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.