1697 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1697?
- 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 In The Year 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)
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