1697
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Template:C17YearInTopicX 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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[edit] Events of 1697
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1697 MDCXCVII
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| Ab urbe condita | 2450 |
| Armenian calendar | 1146 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -147 – -146 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2241 |
| Coptic calendar | 1413 – 1414 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1689 – 1690 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5457 – 5458 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1752 – 1753 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1619 – 1620 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4798 – 4799 |
| Holocene calendar | 11697 |
| Iranian calendar | 1075 – 1076 |
| Islamic calendar | 1108 – 1109 |
| Japanese calendar | Genroku
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2357 (皇紀2357年) |
| Julian calendar | 1742 |
| Korean calendar | 4030 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2240 |
- January 30 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (died 1773)
- March 9 - Friederike Caroline Neuber, actress (died 1760)
- August 6 - Charles VII (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)
- See also 1697 births.
[edit] 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)
- See also 1697 deaths.
[edit] References
- ^ Cordingly, David (1995); Under The Black Flag : The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates, Harcourt Brace & Company.
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[edit] People of the year 1697 at Familypedia
14 people were born in 1697
4 children were born to the 3 women born in 1697
4 people died in 1697
449 people lived in 1697
[edit] Events of the year 1697 at Familypedia
12 people were married in 1697.
There were 0 military battles in 1697.
