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 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 (hemorage in head cased by Captain Kidd hitting him with a bucket)
November 22 - Libéral Bruant, French architect

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