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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).

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Events of 1697

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

References

Events of 1697

January - June

★ March - Peter the Great sets out to travel in Europe officially 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.

July - December

★ September 11 - Battle of Zenta, Prince Eugene of Savoy crushed Ottoman army of Mustafa II

★ September 20 - The Treaty of Ryswick

★ December 2 – St Paul's Cathedral opened in London.

★ December 14 - Charles XII of Sweden is crowned king at the age of 15.

Undated

★ 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.

★ 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 (died 1773)

★ March 9 - Friederike Caroline Neuber, actress (died 1760)

★ August 6 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (died. 1745)

★ October 7 - Canaletto, Italian artist (died 1768)

★ October 26 - John Peter Zenger, newspaper printer (died 1746)

★ November 10 - William Hogarth, English artist (died 1764)
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Deaths

★ January 8 - Thomas Aikenhead (hanged) (born c.1678)

★ January 26 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (born 1640)

★ January 28 - John Fenwick, English conspirator (born c.1645)

★ March 1 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician (born 1626)

★ March 19 - Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (born 1665)

★ March 26 - Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (born 1640)

★ March 27 - Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (born 1603)

★ April 5 - King Charles XI of Sweden (stomach cancer) (born 1655)

★ April 8 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (born 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 (born c.1635)
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References

1. Cordingly, David (1995); ''Under The Black Flag : The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates'', Harcourt Brace & Company.