1697
EventsSeptember 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.
- Tayassal, capital of the Peten Itza Maya, the last independent Mesoamerican state, is conquered by Spain
- The Manchu Empire conquers western Mongolia
Births - March 9 - Friederike Caroline Neuber, actress (+ 1760)
- August 6 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
- October 7 - Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canale), Italian artist
- November 10 - William Hogarth, English artist
Deaths - Karl XI of Sweden dies of stomach cancer.
- March 1 - Francesco Redi, physician, refuted abiogenesis (b. 1626)
- January 8 - Thomas Aikenhead hanged for blasphemy, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
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