1697
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This article is about the year 1697. For the number see 1697 (number).
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1660s 1670s 1680s – 1690s – 1700s 1710s 1720s |
| Years: | 1694 1695 1696 – 1697 – 1698 1699 1700 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1697 MDCXCVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2450 |
| Armenian calendar | 1146 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6447 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -147–-146 |
| Bengali calendar | 1104 |
| Berber calendar | 2647 |
| English Regnal year | 9 Will. 3 – 10 Will. 3 |
| 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 | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1753–1754 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1619–1620 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4798–4799 |
| Holocene calendar | 11697 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 697–698 |
| Iranian calendar | 1075–1076 |
| Islamic calendar | 1108–1109 |
| Japanese calendar | Genroku 10 (元禄10年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 4030 |
| Minguo calendar | 215 before ROC 民前215年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2240 |
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Year 1697 (MDCXCVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events [edit]
January–June [edit]
- March
- Peter the Great sets out to travel in Europe officially incognito as "Artilleryman Pjotr Mikhailov".
- The Spanish conquest of the Yucatan is complete with the fall of the Itza Kingdom.
- April 5 – Karl XII becomes king of Sweden upon the death of his father, Karl XI. Karl XII is known as the "Swedish Meteor".
- May 7 – The royal castle "Tre Kronor" ("Three Crowns") in Stockholm burns to the ground. A large portion of the royal library is destroyed.
- June 1 – Augustus II the Strong becomes king of Poland.
- June 30 – The earliest known first-class cricket match took place in Sussex.
July–December [edit]
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- 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.
Date unknown [edit]
- French writer Charles Perrault publishes a collection of then-popular 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 Manchus of the Qing Dynasty conquers Outer Mongolia.
- The Royal African Company loses its monopoly on the slave trade.
Births [edit]
- 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)
Deaths [edit]
- 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)
- February 4 – Adrienne de Wignacourt, 63rd Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1618)
- 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 antiquary 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)
References [edit]
- ^ Cordingly, David (1995); Under The Black Flag – The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates, Harcourt Brace & Company.
