History
1692
General
Population: 624 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include William Congreve, Florent Carton Dancourt (comedy), Johan Konrad Amman (language for deaf mutes),
English translation of Aesop's Fables
Music includes Purcell "Fairy Queen"
- Technology: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz (Liebnus) invents calculating machine that multiplies and divides
- Deaths: Dramatist Thomas Shadwell,
Americas
- Jamaica: Earthquake and tsunami kills 30,000 - Port Royal collapses into sea in quake - People reported to be swallowed in the earth
Asia
- China: Edict of Toleration for Christians
Europe
- General: Destruction of French Navy by English at La Hogue ends attempted French invation of England
- England: William III defeated at Steinkirk
Nahum Tate made poet laureate
The Bank opened at the Strand in London
Queen Mary II founds Greenwich Hospital for wounded sailors and pensioners
- France: Battle of La Hogue – France defeated by Anglo-Dutch fleet stopping attempted French invasion
- Holy Roman Empire: Imperial troops capture Grosswardein from Turks
Duke Ernst August of Hanover becomes 9th elector of the HRE
- Ireland: Catholics excluded from Irish parliament
- Scotland: Massacre at Glencoe – Macdonald clan killed by rival Campbell clan on pretext of disloyalty to King William III
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Imperial troops capture Grosswardein from Turks
East
- Massachusetts: Witchcraft trials in Salem
South
- Virgina: William and Mary College founded