In 1692, the Qing Kangxi Emperor carried out a comprehensive building program at the temple and merged it with the nearby Fahai Temple ( 法海寺 ).

Congregation Mikvé Israel ( now Mikvé Israel-Emanuel ) built this synagogue in 1692 ; it was reconstructed in 1732 and is the oldest surviving synagogue building in the western hemisphere.

Due to mismanagement by Lord Ranelagh, the Hospital Treasurer, the building was not completed until 1692.

In 1692 the French engineer Descombs began planning the programme of building the fort ; however, once it became clear how expensive it would be the scheme was abandoned.

Henri Jules de Bourbon-Condé fulfilled his father's wish in 1692 by building the church of Notre-Dame and creating a parish dependent on the Bishop of Senlis superseding all existing parishes.

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.

Calef's book was inspired by the fear that Mather would succeed in once again stirring up new witchcraft trials, and the need to bear witness to the horrible experiences of New Englanders in 1692.

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.

However, when Baden was transferred west to fight the French in 1692 his successors, first Caprara, then from 1696, Frederick Augustus, the Elector of Saxony, proved incapable of delivering the final blow.

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

He was eventually removed in 1692 and replaced with Nathaniel Higginson as the President of Madras.

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

The most infamous example of this policy was the Massacre of Glencoe in 1692.

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 ).

In 1692, he composed The Fairy-Queen ( an adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ), the score of which ( his longest for theatre ) was rediscovered in 1901 and published by the Purcell Society.

The Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg were elevated by the Holy Roman Emperor to the rank of Prince-Elector in 1692, and this elevation was confirmed by the Diet in 1708.

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.

Lamotius governed until 1692, when he was deported to Batavia for judgment for persecuting a colonist whose wife had refused his courtship.

Thus in 1692 a new governor, Roelof Deodati, was appointed.

The city, along with most of the settled areas of the state, was abandoned by the Spanish for 12 years ( 1680 – 1692 ) as a result of the successful Pueblo Revolt.

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 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.

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

Sophia of the Palatinate ( commonly referred to as Sophia of Hanover ; 14 October 1630 – 8 June 1714 ) was the Electress of Hanover from 1692 to 1698.

Fiestas de Santa Fe has been held since 1712 to celebrate the Spanish retaking of the city in 1692 by Don Diego de Vargas from the Pueblo tribes who had occupied the city since the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

In 1692 he joined the army and participated in the invasion of Namur, discovering his musical talent while not occupied by combat.

His ambitious business ventures saw him bankrupt by 1692, with a wife and seven children to support.

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.

* 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.

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.

* 1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.

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.

The earliest known depiction of a Siberian shaman, produced by the Dutch explorer Nicolaes Witsen, who authored an account of his travels among Samoyedic-and Tungusic-speaking peoples in 1692.

Europe in 1692 by the Dutch traveler Nicolaes Witsen who reported his stay and journeys among the Tungusic-and Samoyedic-speaking

* Division Viol by Barak Norman, London, 1692

The couple became estranged — George preferred the company of his mistress, Melusine von der Schulenburg, by whom he had two daughters in 1692 and 1693 ; and Sophia Dorothea, meanwhile, had her own romance with the Swedish Count Philip Christoph von Königsmarck.

One of the larger amounts taken from a single ship was that by captain Thomas Tew from an Indian merchantman in 1692.

Once, after the 1692 re-conquest, the Spanish were prevented from entering a town when they were met by a handful of men who uttered imprecations and cast a single pinch of a sacred substance.

The Spanish were expelled from the territory for 12 years following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, returning in 1692 in the " bloodless " reoccupation of Santa Fe by Diego de Vargas.

The mission was founded in 1692 by the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino, founder of the Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert chain, who often visited and preached in the area.