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. 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. 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. 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. 8 September – an earthquake in Brabant of scale 5.8 is felt across the Low Countries, Germany and England. 22 November – first performance of Henry Purcell's Ode to St. Cecilia.Gentleman's Journal, November 1692, cited in Rimbault's edition, London: Musical Antiquarian Society Publications, 1848, p. 2.
Undated c.200 collier ships are wrecked in a storm off Winterton Ness with the loss of around a thousand lives. 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. 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) 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)
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