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1692 in England
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Events from the year
1692
in
England
.
Incumbents
Monarchs
–
William III
and
Mary II
Events
19 February –
Princess Anne
leaves the court after quarrelling with her sister,
Queen Mary
.
[
1
]
2 May – first performance of
Henry Purcell
's semi-opera
The Fairy-Queen
at the
Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden
, in
London
.
5 May – Queen Mary orders the imprisonment of
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
for alleged treasonous support of the
Jacobites
.
[
1
]
29 May–4 June –
War of the Grand Alliance
: The threat of a
French
invasion of England is diminished by victory at the
Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue
.
[
2
]
3 August – War of the Grand Alliance: the allied forces of England and the
Dutch Republic
led by King
William III of England
are defeated at the
Battle of Steenkerque
.
[
2
]
8 September – an
earthquake
in
Brabant
of
scale
5.8 is felt across the
Low Countries
, Germany and England.
[
3
]
22 November – first performance of
Henry Purcell
's
Ode to St. Cecilia
.
[
4
]
Undated
c.200
collier
ships are wrecked in a storm off
Winterton Ness
with the loss of around a thousand lives.
[
5
]
An Act for encourageing the apprehending of Highway Men
offers rewards for the apprehension of
highwaymen
.
Lloyd's coffee house
in London becomes the main office for
marine insurance
.
[
1
]
First publication of the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
, as
Chronicon Saxonicum
, edited with a Latin translation by
Edmund Gibson
.
Births
29 February –
John Byrom
, poet (died 1763)
18 May –
Joseph Butler
, bishop and philosopher (died 1752)
[
6
]
3 August –
John Henley
, minister (died 1759)
John Huxham
, surgeon (died 1768)
Deaths
18 May –
Elias Ashmole
, antiquarian (born 1617)
4 October –
Charles Fleetwood
, Parliamentarian soldier and politician (born c. 1618)
c. November? –
Edmund Ludlow
, last surviving
regicide
, exiled in Switzerland (born c. 1617)
19 November –
Thomas Shadwell
, poet and playwright (born c. 1642)
9 December –
William Mountfort
, actor and playwright (born c. 1664)
References
1
2
3
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp.
198–
200.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2
.
1
2
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p.
286
.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
↑
Stratton, J. M. (1969).
Agricultural Records
. John Baker.
ISBN
0-212-97022-4
.
↑
Gentleman's Journal
, November 1692, cited in
Rimbault's edition
, London: Musical Antiquarian Society Publications, 1848, p. 2.
↑
Defoe, Daniel
.
A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain
.
↑
"Joseph Butler | British bishop and philosopher | Britannica"
.
www.britannica.com
. Retrieved
4 February
2022
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