Years: 1694 1695 1696 - 1697 - 1698 1699 1700

Decades: 1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1697 in literature 1697 in science 1697 state leaders

Events

• 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.
• 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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