1697

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Years: 1694 1695 1696 - 1697 - 1698 1699 1700

Decades: 1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1697 by topic: Science - State leaders - Literature - Music

Events

• September 20 - The Treaty of Ryswick
• December 2 – St Paul's Cathedral opened in London

• Peter the Great travels in Europe officially incognito as "artilleryman Pjotr Mikhailov"
• Use of palanquins increases in Europe
• Christopher Polhem starts Sweden's first technical school.
• The royal castle "Tre Kronor" in Stockholm burns to the ground. A large portion of the royal library is destroyed.
• Karl XII of Sweden is crowned king at the age of 15.
• Tayasal, capital of the Peten Itza Maya, the last independent Mesoamerican state, is conquered by Spain
• The Manchu Empire conquers western Mongolia

Births

• January 30 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and ocmposer (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)
• November 10 - William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764)

Deaths

• January 8 - Thomas Aikenhead (hanged)
• January 26 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
• January 28 - John Fenwick, English conspirator
• March 1 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
• March 19 - Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665)
• March 26 - Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politican 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)
• November 22 - Liberal Bruant, French architect