1697
*
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*
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*
January 30 -
Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist 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)
*
November 10 -
William Hogarth, English artist (d.
1764)
*
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 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)
*
October 31 -
William Moore, Captain William Kidd's Gunner (hemorrhage in head cased by Captain Kidd hitting him with a bucket)
*
November 22 -
Libéral Bruant, French architect
