1697

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1660s  1670s  1680s  – 1690s –  1700s  1710s  1720s
Years:	1694 1695 1696 – 1697 – 1698 1699 1700

1697 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1697 (MDCXCVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1697 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 1.4 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

Events of 1697

January–June

• March – Peter the Great sets out to travel in Europe officially incognito as "Artilleryman Pjotr Mikhailov".
• March – The Spanish conquest of the Yucatan is complete with the fall of the Itza Kingdom.
• 5 April – Karl XII becomes king of Sweden upon the death of his father, Karl XI. Karl XII is known as the "Swedish Meteor".
• 7 May – The royal castle "Tre Kronor" ("Three Crowns") in Stockholm burns to the ground. A large portion of the royal library is destroyed.
• 30 June – The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.

July–December

1697 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1697 MDCXCVII
Ab urbe condita	2450
Armenian calendar	1146 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԶ
Bahá'í calendar	-147 – -146
Bengali calendar	1104
Berber calendar	2647
Buddhist calendar	2241
Burmese calendar	1059
Byzantine calendar	7205 – 7206
Chinese calendar	丙子年十二月初九日 (4333/4393-12-9) — to — 丁丑年十一月十九日 (4334/4394-11-19)
Coptic calendar	1413 – 1414
Ethiopian calendar	1689 – 1690
Hebrew calendar	5457 – 5458
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1753 – 1754
- Shaka Samvat	1619 – 1620
- Kali Yuga	4798 – 4799
Holocene calendar	11697
Iranian calendar	1075 – 1076
Islamic calendar	1108 – 1109
Japanese calendar	Genroku 10 (元禄10年)
Korean calendar	4030
Thai solar calendar	2240

• September 11 – Battle of Zenta: Prince Eugene of Savoy crushes the Ottoman army of Mustafa II and effectively ends Turkish hopes of recovering lost ground in Hungary.
• September 20 – The Treaty of Ryswick signed by France and the Grand Alliance to end both the Nine Years' War and King William's War. The conflict having been inconclusive, the treaty is proposed because the combatants have exhausted their national treasuries. Louis XIV recognises William III as King of England & Scotland and both sides return territories they have taken in battle. In North America, the treaty returns Port Royal (Nova Scotia) to France. In practice, the treaty is little more than a truce; it does not resolve any of the fundamental colonial problems and the peace lasts only five years.
• December 2 – St Paul's Cathedral is opened in London.
• December 14 – Charles XII of Sweden is crowned king at the age of 15.

Undated

• French writer Charles Perrault publishes a collection of favourite fairy tales, including Red Riding Hood and The Sleeping Beauty.
• The use of palanquins increases in Europe.
• Christopher Polhem starts Sweden's first technical school.
• Tayasal, capital of the Itza Maya in the Petén Basin, the last independent Maya polity, is conquered by Spain.
• The Manchu Empire conquers western Mongolia.
• The Royal African Company loses its monopoly on the slave trade.

Ongoing events

• Nine Years' War (1688–1697).
• Great Turkish War (1662–1699).

Births

• January 30 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)
• March 9 – Friederike Caroline Neuber, actress (d. 1760)
• August 6 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
• October 7 – Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768)
• October 26 – John Peter Zenger, newspaper printer (d. 1746)
• November 10 – William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764)

See also Category: 1697 births.

Deaths

• January 8 – Thomas Aikenhead (hanged) (b. c. 1678)
• January 26 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
• January 28 – John Fenwick, English conspirator (b. c. 1645)
• March 1 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
• March 19 – Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665)
• March 26 – Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (b. 1640)
• March 27 – Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603)
• April 5 – King Charles XI of Sweden (stomach cancer) (b. 1655)
• April 8 – Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629)
• June 7 - John Aubrey, English antiguary and writer (b. 1626)
• October 31 – William Moore, Captain William Kidd's gunner (hemorrhage in head caused by Captain Kidd hitting him with a bucket)^[1]
• November 22 – Libéral Bruant, French architect (b. c. 1635)

See also Category: 1697 deaths.

References