Editing 1697 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January–March ===
* [[January 8]] – [[Thomas Aikenhead]] is hanged outside [[Edinburgh]], becoming the last person in Great Britain to be executed for [[Blasphemy law in the United Kingdom|blasphemy]].
* [[January 11]] – French writer [[Charles Perrault]] releases the book ''[[Histoires ou contes du temps passé]]'' (literally "Tales of Past Times", known in England as "Mother Goose tales") in Paris, a collection of popular [[fairy tale]]s, including ''[[Cinderella]]'', ''[[Puss in Boots]]'', ''[[Red Riding Hood]]'', ''The [[Sleeping Beauty]]'' and ''[[Bluebeard]]''.
* [[February 22]] – [[Gerrit de Heere]] becomes the new [[Governor of Dutch Ceylon]], succeeding [[Thomas van Rhee]] and administering the colony for almost six years until his death.
* [[February 26]] – Conquistador [[Martín de Ursúa y Arizmendi]] and 114 soldiers arrive at [[Lake Petén Itzá]] in what is now [[Guatemala]] and begin the [[Spanish conquest of Guatemala]] with an attack on the capital of the [[Itza people]] there before moving northward to the Yucatan peninsula. 
* [[March 9]] – [[Grand Embassy of Peter the Great]]: Tsar [[Peter the Great]] of Russia sets out to travel in Europe [[Wiktionary:incognito|incognito]], as ''Artilleryman Pjotr Mikhailov''.
* [[March 13]] – The [[Spanish conquest of Petén]], and of [[Spanish conquest of Yucatán|Yucatán]], is completed with the fall of [[Nojpetén]], capital of the [[Itza people|Itza]] [[Maya civilization|Maya]] Kingdom, the last independent Maya state.
* [[March 22]] – [[Charles II of Spain]] issues a Royal Cedula extending to the indigenous nobles of the Spanish Crown colonies, as well as to their descendants, the preeminence and honors customarily attributed to the [[Hidalgo (nobility)|Hidalgos]] of [[Kingdom of Castile|Castile]].
* [[March 26]] – [[Safavid occupation of Basra]]: [[Safavid Iran|Safavid]] government troops take control of [[Basra]].

=== April–June ===
* [[April 5]] – [[Charles XII of Sweden|Charles XII]] becomes king of Sweden at age 14 on the death of his father, [[Charles XI of Sweden|Charles XI]], from stomach cancer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rystad |first=Göran |title=Karl XI: en biografi |date=2001 |publisher=Historiska media |isbn=978-91-89442-27-6 |location=Lund |pages=368–369 |language=Swedish}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://runeberg.org/nfbm/0509.html |title=Karl XI |encyclopedia=[[Nordisk familjebok]] |edition=2nd |year=1910 |volume=13 |page=962 |language=sv}}</ref>
* [[April 23]] – As Chinese troops from the Manchu Dynasty (ruled by the [[Kangxi Emperor]]) complete their conquest of [[Outer Mongolia|Mongolia]], [[Galdan Boshugtu Khan]], ruler of the last part of Mongolia to be conquered, the [[Dzungar Khanate]], poisons himself, ending the resistance to conquest.<ref>Gaston Cahen, ''History of the Relations of Russia and China Under Peter the Great, 1689-1730'', translated by W. Sheldon Ridge (The National Review, 1914) pp. 61-62; another source, ''The Tea Road: China and Russia Meet Across the Steppe'' by Martha Avery (China Intercontinental Press, 2003) p. 107, gives the date as May 3. </ref>
* [[May 6]] – General [[Bernard Desjean, Baron de Pointis]] of [[France]] carries out [[Raid on Cartagena (1697)|an attack and pillaging]] of the Spanish South American fort of [[Cartagena, Colombia|Cartagena de Indias]] (now in [[Colombia]]) with 1,200 soldiers and 650 pirate mercenaries. The French attackers overwhelm the city for the next 18 days. The Baron reneges on a contract to share the wealth with the pirates, who will come back to Cartagena a second time and makes a more violent attack. <ref>"La Percée de l'Europe sur les océans vers 1690-vers 1790",  in ''Revue d'histoire maritime'' (October 1997)</ref>
* [[May 17]] (May 7 [[Old Style]]) – The 13th century royal ''[[Tre Kronor (castle)|Tre Kronor]]'' ("Three Crowns") castle in [[Stockholm]] burns to the ground, and a large portion of the royal library is destroyed.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Malmborg|first1=Boo von|last2=Palmstierna|first2=Carl-Fredrik|title=Slott och herresäten i Sverige, ett konst- och kulturhistoriskt samlingsverk.|trans-title=Castles and manors in Sweden|volume=1, Kungliga slottet i Stockholm|date=1971|page=39|publisher=Allhem|location=Malmö|url=http://libris.kb.se/bib/483510|language=sv}}</ref>
* [[June 2]] – [[Augustus II the Strong|Augustus, Elector of Saxony]] converts to Roman Catholicism in order to be eligible to rule Poland.
* [[June 10]] – The last mass execution for witchcraft in western Europe when the five [[Paisley witches]] are hanged and then burned in Scotland.
* [[June 27]] – After becoming a Roman Catholic, [[Augustus II the Strong|Augustus the Strong]] is elected [[List of Polish monarchs|King Augustus II of Poland]].
* [[June 30]] – The earliest reported [[first-class cricket]] match takes place in [[Sussex]] in England.

=== July–September ===
* [[July 4]] – A Byzantine icon, the [[St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna#Máriapócs Icon|"Weeping Madonna of Pócs"]], arrives in [[Vienna]] after a five-month journey following its forced removal from the Hungarian village of [[Máriapócs|Pócs]] by order of the [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Emperor]], [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor|Leopold I]]. It has been housed for more than 320 years in St. Stephen's Cathedral.
* [[July 6]] – [[Action of 6 July 1697|A major naval battle takes place]] between the [[Republic of Venice]] and the [[Ottoman Empire]] with each side having 25 battleships, supplemented by smaller vessels. The Venetian Navy, under the command of Admiral [[Bartolomeo Contarini (naval commander)|Bartolomeo Contarini]], suffers 71 deaths and 163 injuries, and even worse casualties in a second engagement on September 20.
* [[July 27]] – [[Mahmud II of Johor|Mahmud Shah II]], the [[Johor Sultanate|Sultan of Johor and Pahang]] (now part of [[Malaysia]]) takes on full power upon the death of the regent, the [[Bendahara]] Paduka Raja. Mahmud II was only 10 years old when he became the Sultan upon the assassination of his father, [[Ibrahim Shah of Johor|Ibrahim Shah]] in 1685.
* [[July 28]] – The opera ''[[Vénus et Adonis]]'', composed by [[Henri Desmarets]] with libretto by [[Jean-Baptiste Rousseau]], receives its first performance, premiering at the [[Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)|Théâtre du Palais-Royal]] in [[Paris]].
* [[August 10]] – [[Siege of Barcelona (1697)|The Siege of Barcelona]] ends in [[Spain]] after 52 days as [[Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme]] of France obtains the surrender of Barcelona from the Austrian General, [[Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt]].
* [[September 5]] (August 25 O.S.) – During the [[Nine Years' War]], the [[Battle of Hudson's Bay]] is fought between English and French ships in Hudson Bay near what is now the Canadian province of [[Manitoba]]; The [[French ship Pélican (1693)|French warship ''Pélican'']] captures [[York Factory]], a trading post of the English [[Hudson's Bay Company]].
* [[September 11]] – [[Battle of Zenta]]: [[Prince Eugene of Savoy]] crushes the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] army of [[Mustafa II]], and effectively ends Turkish hopes of recovering lost ground in Hungary.
* [[September 17]] – [[Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha]] becomes the new [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] in the wake of the disastrous Ottoman defeat at Zenta, replacing Grand Vizier [[Elmas Mehmed Pasha]], who was killed in the battle by his own troops.
* [[September 20]] – The [[Treaty of Ryswick]] is signed by France and the Grand Alliance, to end both the [[Nine Years' War]] and [[King William's War]]. [[Louis XIV of France]] recognises [[William III of England|William III]] as King of England & Scotland, and both sides return territories they have taken in battle. In North America, the treaty returns [[Port-Royal (Acadia)]] to France.

=== October–December ===
* [[October 7]] – The opera ''[[Issé (opera)|Issé]]'', composed by [[André Cardinal Destouches]] with libretto by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, premieres at the [[Palace of Fontainebleau]] in France.
* [[October 16]] – The [[Norwegian Code]], promulgated by King [[Christian V of Denmark|Christian V of Denmark-Norway]] in [[1687]], is amended to provide for torture of condemned criminals in certain [[capital punishment in Norway|capital offenses]] in Norway, with permission for burning with hot irons, or cutting off the prisoner's right hand while the prisoner is being transported for [[decapitation]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rhd.uit.no/birte/bygdeboka.html|title=Kjærvikmordet|publisher=University of Tromsø|language=no|access-date=23 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031805/http://www.rhd.uit.no/birte/bygdeboka.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[October 19]] – [[Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó|Misión Loreto]], the first Roman Catholic mission on Mexico's [[Baja California Peninsula]], is founded by Spanish missionary [[Juan María de Salvatierra]].  
* [[October 24]] – The first [[opéra-ballet]], combining elements of both mediums of entertainment, is performed as ''[[L'Europe galante]]'' makes its debut at the [[Salle du Palais-Royal]] in [[Paris]]. Composed by [[André Campra]], with [[libretto]] by [[Antoine Houdar de la Motte]], the opera and ballet is conducted by [[Marin Marais]].
* [[October 30]] – The [[Nine Years' War]], between France and the [[Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg)|Grand Alliance]] comes to an end with the signing of the last pacts of the [[Peace of Ryswick]] in the Dutch city of [[Rijswijk]] as [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor|Leopold I]] of [[Austria]] accedes two days before a deadline that had been set by the other members of the Grand Alliance. The areas of the [[Duchy of Lorraine]] (Lotharingen), [[Freiburg im Breisgau]], and Vieux-Brisach ([[Breisach]]) are returned by France to Leopold's control.
* [[November 24]] – The elaborate burial of the late King [[Charles XI of Sweden]] takes place more than seven months after his April 5 death, with interment at the [[Riddarholmen Church]] on the island of [[Riddarholmen]] near [[Stockholm]].
* [[November 30]] – [[Prince Eugene of Savoy]], a field marshal within the [[Holy Roman Empire]], purchases a large tract of land in [[Vienna]] for construction of the [[Belvedere, Vienna|Belvedere Palace]].
* [[December 2]] – The first service is held in [[St Paul's Cathedral]] since rebuilding work after the [[Great Fire of London]] began.
* [[December 7]] – [[Louis, Duke of Burgundy]], and [[Marie Adélaïde of Savoy]] marry in the royal chapel at the [[Palace of Versailles]] in France.
* [[December 8]] – Tsangyang Gyatso is installed in [[Tibet]] as the [[6th Dalai Lama]] in a ceremony at [[Lhasa]], filling a vacancy that had existed since 1682.<ref>Warren Smith, ''Tibetan Nation: A History Of Tibetan Nationalism And Sino-Tibetan Relations'' (Taylor & Francis, 2019)</ref>
* [[December 11]] – A ball in the [[Hall of Mirrors]] at the Palace of Versailles is held to celebrate the Duke of Burgundy and Marie Adélaïde's wedding.
* [[December 14]] – The coronation ceremony takes place for King [[Charles XII of Sweden]].

=== Date unknown ===
* The [[Manchu]]s of the [[Qing dynasty]] conquer [[Outer Mongolia]].
* The [[Parliament of England]] passes the [[Trade with Africa Act 1697]] (''An Act to settle the Trade to Africa''), which end the [[Royal African Company]]'s monopoly on all English trade with Africa.
* [[William Dampier]]'s ''[[A New Voyage Round the World]]'' is published in England.
* [[Christopher Polhem]] starts [[Sweden]]'s first technical school.
* [[Heinrich Escher]], Mayor of [[Zürich]], introduces [[chocolate]] to Switzerland from [[Brussels]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The History Of Chocolate: A Chocolate Timeline|url=https://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/chocolate/the-history-of-chocolate.asp|work=The Nibble|access-date=2020-12-29}}</ref>
* The use of "[[Litter (vehicle)|litters]]" (wheelless transports that carried by four servants) increases in [[Europe]].</onlyinclude>

=== Ongoing ===
* [[Great Famine of 1695–1697]] in Scandinavia.
* [[Great Famine of Estonia (1695–97)]].
* "[[Seven ill years]]" of famine in [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]].