Year 1692 (MDCXCII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1692

thumb|280px|left| Battle of La Hougue./" class="wiki">June 1: Battle of La Hougue.
thumb|250px|right| [[June 7 – Jamaica earthquake.]]

January–June

• February 13 – Massacre of Glencoe: The forces of Robert Campbell slaughter 38 members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe for allegedly refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to King William III of England.

• March 1 – The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony, with the charging of 3 women with witchcraft.

• March 22 – The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty issues the Edict of Toleration recognizing all the Roman Catholic Church, not just the Jesuits, and legalizing missions and their conversion of Chinese people.

• 1–3 June – The Battle of La Hougue is the decisive naval battle in the Nine Years' War, ending in an Anglo-Dutch victory.

thumb|230px|right| [[June 10: The Salem witch trials begin months of hangings.]]

• June 7 – An earthquake and related tsunami destroy Port Royal, capital of Jamaica and submerges a major part of it – an estimated 2,000 are immediately killed, 2,300 injured, and a probable additional 2,000 die from the diseases which ravage the island in the following months.

• June 8 – During a famine in Mexico City, an angry mob torches the Viceroy's palace and ignites the archives: most of the documents and some paintings are saved by royal geographer Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora.

• June 10 – Salem witch trial investigations and convictions lead to several months of hangings. By the end of September, 14 women including Bridget Bishop and 5 men had been hanged. Another man, Giles Corey was tortured to death in an attempt to coerce a guilty plea from him by crushing him with rocks.

July–December

• September 8 Earthquake in London.

• September 14 – Diego de Vargas leads Spanish colonists in retaking the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico after a 12-year exile following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

Ongoing events

• Nine Years' War (1688–1697).

• Great Turkish War (1662–1699).

Births

• February 25 – Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)

• February 29 – John Byrom, English poet (d. 1763)

• April 5 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)

• April 8 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1770)

• April 22 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770)

• May 18 – Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher (d. 1752)

• August 3 – John Henley, English minister (d. 1759)

• August 18 – Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (d. 1740)

• October 25 – Elizabeth Farnese, queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1766)

• November 2 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766)

• November 6 – Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)

• November 15 – Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (d. 1775)

• November 21 – Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (d. 1768)

Deaths

• May 9 – Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels, German prince (b. 1659)

• May 18 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (b. 1617)

• June 7 – Pierre Bailloquet, Jesuit missionary to the Canadian Indians (b. 1612)

• July 19 – Rebecca Nurse, accused witch (b. 1621)

• July 23 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)

• August 3 – James Douglas, Earl of Angus, Scottish nobleman and soldier (b. 1671)

• August 4 – Jean-Michel-d'Astorg Aubarede, Vicar Capitular of Pamiers (b. 1639)

• September 19 – Giles Corey, American farmer and accused wizard (b. c. 1612)

• November 6 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)

• November 19 – Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright (b. c.1642)

• December 9 – William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist (b. c.1664)

• December 18 – Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (b. 1626)