Major Events
- Feb 29 First people are accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts - Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba, a West Indian slave
- Sep 22 Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 19 hanged overall, with six other deaths during Salem witch trials
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Born in 1692
- Jan 6 Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, Dutch composer, born in Wergea, Netherlands (d. 1781)
- Feb 14 Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (L’École des Mères), born in Paris (d. 1754)
- Feb 25 Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)
- Feb 29 John Byrom, English poet and the inventor of shorthand, born in Manchester, England (d. 1763)
- Mar 14 Pieter Musschenbroek, Dutch mathematician and physician (Leyden jar), born in Leiden, Dutch Republic (d. 1761)
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Who Died in 1692
- Jan 19 Jan Commelin, Dutch botanist and director of Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, dies at 62
- Feb 24 Antimo Liberati, Italian composer, dies at 74
- Mar 25 Gerardus Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66
- Apr 14 Carlos de Gurrea, Spanish viceroy (Spanish Netherlands), dies
- May 18 Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian & collector (Ashmolean Museum), dies at 74
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