1697 Calendar
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1697 Historical Event(s)
May 7, 1697
– Stockholm’s royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced by the current Royal Palace in the eighteenth century.
September 11, 1697
– Battle of Zenta.
September 20, 1697
– The Treaty of Rijswijk is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years’ War (1688–97).
November 9, 1697
– Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
Who Were Born On 1697?
January 30, 1697
– Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)
April 1, 1697
– Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (d. 1763)
August 6, 1697
– Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
October 28, 1697
– Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768)
November 10, 1697
– William Hogarth, English artist (d. 1764)
November 25, 1697
– Duchess Maria Karolina Sobieska of Bouillon (d. 1740)