1697 Totally Explained

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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).

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.
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 crushed Ottoman army of Mustafa II

September 20 - The Treaty of Ryswick

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

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 (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) ť See also .

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)

November 22 - Libéral Bruant, French architect (born c.1635) ť See also .

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