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).

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.
• April 5 - Charles XII becomes king of Sweden upon the death of his father, Charles XI.
• May 7 - The royal castle "Tre Kronor" ("Three Crowns") in Stockholm burns to the ground. A large portion of the royal library is destroyed.

July - December

• September 11 - Battle of Zenta: Prince Eugene of Savoy crushes the Ottoman army of Mustafa II.
• September 20 - The Treaty of Ryswick ends the Nine Years' War.
• 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

• 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.

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)
• 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.

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