Editing 1697 (section)

=== 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.