Editing 1697

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[[File:Zentaicsata (Battle of Senta).JPG|right|350px|thumb|[[September 11]]: The Prince of Savoy defeats the Ottoman Empire's final attack on Hungary at the [[Battle of Zenta]].]] 
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== 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]].

== Births ==
[[File:William Smellie. Line engraving by R. Anderson (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Smellie (obstetrician)]] born [[5 February]]]]
[[File:Yinli.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Yunli]] born [[24 March]]]]
[[File:JMLeclair.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Jean-Marie Leclair]] born [[10 May]]]]
[[File:Ernestine Theodora von Pfalz-Sulzbach.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Countess Palatine Ernestine of Sulzbach]] born [[15 May]]]]
[[File:Carl Albrecht VII, by workshop of George Desmarees.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor]] born [[6 August]]]]
[[File:Benedetta Ernestina d'Este.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Princess Benedetta d'Este]] born [[18 August]]]]
[[File:Alexander Monro primus.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Alexander Monro (primus)]] born [[19 September]]]]
[[File:William Smith (New York Judge, born 1697).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Smith (judge, born 1697)]] born [[8 October]]]]
[[File:George Desmarées 001.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Georg Desmarées]] born [[29 October]]]]
[[File:Louise Hippolyte Grimaldi with a view overlooking Monaco from the studio of Jean-Baptiste Santerre (1651-1717).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco]] born [[10 November]]]]
[[File:John Baring (1697-1748).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Johann Baring]] born [[15 November]]]]
[[File:Portrait of Maria Carolina de Bouillon - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Maria Karolina Sobieska]] born [[25 November]]]]
=== January–March ===
* [[January 1]] – [[Johann Pfeiffer]], German violinist (d. [[1761]])
* [[January 7]]
** [[Wilhelm August von der Osten]], Danish civil servant (d. [[1764]])
** [[Robert Wallace (minister)|Robert Wallace]], minister of the Church of Scotland, writer on population (d. [[1771]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Gabriel Hanger, 1st Baron Coleraine]], English politician (d. [[1773]])
* [[January 11]] – [[William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex]], English courtier and diplomat (d. [[1743]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Paul-François de Galluccio, marquis de L'Hôpital]], French nobleman and ambassador to Russia (d. [[1767]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Jules, Prince of Soubise]], French nobleman and Prince of Soubise (d. [[1724]])
* [[January 17]] – [[Franz Neumayr]], German Jesuit preacher (d. [[1765]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Thérèse de Couagne]], capitalist and slave owner who played an active role in the economy of New France (d. [[1764]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Antoine-Martin Chaumont de La Galaizière]], French nobleman (d. [[1783]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Joseph François Dupleix]], Governor-General of French India and rival of Robert Clive (d. [[1763]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Sir Hugh Acland, 6th Baronet]], British landowner, politician and MP (d. [[1728]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Johann Joachim Quantz]], German flautist and composer (d. [[1773]])
* [[February 1]] – [[Josse Boutmy]], composer, organist and harpsichordist of the Austrian Netherlands (d. [[1779]])
* [[February 4]] – [[James Franklin (printer)|James Franklin]], American colonial author (d. [[1735]])
* [[February 5]] – [[William Smellie (obstetrician)|William Smellie]], Scottish obstetrician and medical instructor (d. [[1763]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Sir James Johnstone, 3rd Baronet]], Scottish baronet and politician (d. [[1772]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Knud Leem]], Norwegian priest and linguist (d. [[1774]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Vito Maria Amico]], Italian monk (d. [[1752]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Bernhard Siegfried Albinus]], German anatomist (d. [[1770]])
* [[February 26]]
** [[Giuseppe Pedretti]], Italian painter (d. [[1778]])
** [[Edward Thompson (1697–1742)|Edward Thompson]], prominent Yorkshire politician (d. [[1742]])
* [[February 28]]
** [[Caio Domenico Gallo]], Italian historian (d. [[1780]])
** [[Agustín de Montiano y Luyando]], Spanish dramatist whose work is linked to Neoclassicism (d. [[1764]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Jacques Deschamps]], French theologian and priest (d. [[1759]])
* [[March 9]] – [[Friederike Caroline Neuber]], German actress and theatre director (d. [[1760]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Joseph Leblanc dit Le Maigre]], Acadian farmer and trader (d. [[1772]])
* [[March 20]] – [[József Dravecz]], Slovene Roman Catholic priest (d. [[1779]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Christian Gottlieb Priber]], German immigrant with legal training who emigrated to the British Colonies of North America (d. [[1744]])
* [[March 24]]
** [[Louis Constantin de Rohan (1697–1779)|Louis Constantin de Rohan]], French prelate of the House of Rohan (d. [[1779]])
** [[Yunli]], Manchu prince of the Qing dynasty (d. [[1738]])
* [[March 30]]
** [[Faustina Bordoni]], Italian mezzo-soprano (d. [[1781]])
** [[Jan Baptist Xavery]], Flemish sculptor principally active in the Dutch Republic (d. [[1742]])
=== April–June ===
* [[April 2]]
** [[Gaetano Casanova]], Italian actor and ballet dancer (d. [[1733]])
** [[Sauveur François Morand]], French surgeon (d. [[1773]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Anton Pichler]], Tyrolean goldsmith and artist of engraved gems (d. [[1779]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Johann Gottlieb Görner]], German composer and organist (d. [[1778]])
* [[April 23]] – [[George Anson, 1st Baron Anson]], British admiral (d. [[1762]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Adam Falckenhagen]], German lutenist and composer (d. [[1754]])
* [[May 2]] – [[Michael Fabritius]], Danish merchant (d. [[1746]])
* [[May 5]] – [[Henricus Boelen]], American silversmith in New York City (d. [[1755]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Jean-Marie Leclair]], French violinist (d. [[1764]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Countess Palatine Ernestine of Sulzbach]], wife of Landgrave William II (d. [[1775]])
* [[May 16]] – [[John Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton]], British politician (d. [[1773]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese]], Italian cardinal from the Borghese family (d. [[1759]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Frederick Bernard, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen]] (d. [[1739]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Thomas Whincop]], English compiler of theatrical history (d. [[1730]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Jacob Emden]], German rabbi and talmudist who championed Orthodox Judaism (d. [[1776]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen]], German prince of the House of Ascania (d. [[1755]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Johann Caspar Barthel]], German canon lawyer (d. [[1771]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Francesco Antonio Vallotti]], Italian composer (d. [[1780]])
* [[June 24]] – [[Heinrich Joseph Johann of Auersperg]], fourth Prince of Auersperg (d. [[1783]])
=== July–September ===
* [[July 27]] – [[Isaac Maddox]], Anglican clergyman (d. [[1759]])
* [[July 31]] – [[Pietro Paolo Vasta]], Italian painter (d. [[1760]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Susanna Wright]], colonial English American poet (d. [[1784]])
* [[August 6]]
** [[Nicola Salvi]], Italian architect (d. [[1751]])
** [[Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor]] from 1742 to 1745 (d. [[1745]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Alexander Kurakin (1697)|Alexander Kurakin]], statesman and diplomat (d. [[1749]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Alexander Brodie (1697–1754)|Alexander Brodie]], Scottish politician (d. [[1754]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Princess Benedetta d'Este]], noblewoman and princess of the Duchy of Modena and Reggio (d. [[1777]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt (third creation)|Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt]], Irish politician and peer (d. [[1751]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Giovanni Battista Tagliasacchi]], Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (d. [[1737]])
* [[August 28]] – [[Armande de La Tour d'Auvergne]], French noblewoman and Princess of Epinoy by marriage (d. [[1717]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Henry Flitcroft]], major English architect in the second generation of Palladianism (d. [[1769]])
* [[September 2]] – [[Thomas Deacon]], English non-juror bishop (d. [[1753]])
* [[September 6]] – [[James Foster (Baptist minister)|James Foster]], English Baptist minister (d. [[1753]])
* [[September 16]] – [[St George Caulfeild]], Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (d. [[1778]])
* [[September 17]] – [[John Gardner (Rhode Island governor)|John Gardner]], American judge (d. [[1764]])
* [[September 18]] – [[Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel]], German organist and composer (bapt. 1697–1775) (d. [[1775]])
* [[September 19]] – [[Alexander Monro (primus)|Alexander Monro]], Scottish surgeon and anatomist (d. [[1767]])
* [[September 25]] – [[Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]] (d. [[1764]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Franz Ernst Brückmann]], German mineralogist born at Mariental (d. [[1753]])
=== October–December ===
* [[October 6]] – [[Sir Robert Austen, 4th Baronet]], British politician (d. [[1743]])
* [[October 8]]
** [[Augustine Françoise de Choiseul]], French aristocrat (d. [[1728]])
** [[William Smith (judge, born 1697)|William Smith]], American lawyer and jurist (d. [[1769]])
* [[October 9]] – [[Pierre Philibert de Blancheton]], French politician and music patron and collector (d. [[1756]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Leopold Innocenty Nepomucen Polzer]], Polish lawyer (d. [[1753]])
* [[October 16]]
** [[Nicholas Amhurst]], English poet and political writer (d. [[1742]])
** [[Marie Anne de Bourbon (1697–1741)|Marie Anne de Bourbon]], Superintendent of the Household to the French queen Marie Leszczyńska (d. [[1741]])
* [[October 18]]
** [[Canaletto]], Italian painter from the Republic of Venice (d. [[1768]])
** [[Luigi Maria Torregiani]], Italian Cardinal (d. [[1777]])
* [[October 19]] – [[Claude-Pierre Goujet]], French abbé and ''littérateur'' (d. [[1767]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Mary Seymour, Duchess of Somerset]] (d. [[1768]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Bartolomeo Ruspoli]], Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. [[1741]])
* [[October 26]] – [[John Peter Zenger]], German printer and journalist in New York City (d. [[1746]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Johann Gottfried Auerbach]], Austrian painter and etcher (d. [[1753]])
* [[October 29]] – [[Georg Desmarées]], Swedish-born German portrait painter (d. [[1776]])
* [[October 31]] – [[Johann Christian Fiedler]], German portrait painter (d. [[1765]])
* [[November 2]] – [[James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry]], Scottish noble (d. [[1715]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Euseby Isham]], English academic administrator at the University of Oxford (d. [[1755]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Giovanni Lami]], Italian jurist (d. [[1770]])
* [[November 9]] – [[August Aleksander Czartoryski]], member of the Polish nobility (Lang-pl (d. [[1782]])
* [[November 10]]
** [[Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco]] (d. [[1731]])
** [[William Hogarth]], English artist (d. [[1764]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Lord William Manners]], English nobleman, Whig politician and MP (d. [[1772]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Johann Baring]], German merchant (d. [[1748]])
* [[November 17]] – [[René-Prosper Tassin]], French historian (d. [[1777]])
* [[November 21]] – [[Mateša Antun Kuhačević]], Croatian poet and politician from Senj (d. [[1772]])
* [[November 23]] – [[John Gill (theologian)|John Gill]], English Baptist pastor (d. [[1771]])
* [[November 25]]
** [[Maria Karolina Sobieska]] (d. [[1740]])
** [[Gerhard Tersteegen]], German Reformed religious writer and hymnist (d. [[1769]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Johann Albrecht Korff]], Russian diplomat (d. [[1766]])
* [[December 4]] – [[Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet]], French churchman (canon of Saint-Malo) and moralist (d. [[1770]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Carlo Arrigoni]], Italian composer and musician active in several countries (d. [[1744]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck]] (d. [[1775]])
* [[December 11]]
** [[Sakaki Hyakusen]], Japanese painter in the nanga style (d. [[1752]])
** [[Pyotr Saltykov]] (d. [[1772]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Soloman Sprecher von Bernegg]], Austrian military commander (d. [[1758]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Marcantonio Dal Re]], Italian engraver and publisher (d. [[1766]])
* [[December 21]]
** [[Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville]], British peer and politician (d. [[1753]])
** [[Georg Erhard Hamberger]], German professor of medicine (d. [[1755]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Sollom Emlyn]], Irish legal writer (d. [[1754]])

== Deaths ==
[[File:Francesco Redi, founder of experimental biology.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Francesco Redi]] died [[1 March]]]]
[[File:William Child by James Caldwall.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[William Child]] died [[23 March]]]]
[[File:Niels Juel (Jacob Coning painting).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Niels Juel]] died [[8 April]]]]
[[File:Louise Boyer (1632-1697, Duchess of Noailles).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louise Boyer]] died [[22 May]]]]
[[File:John Aubrey.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Aubrey]] died [[7 June]]]]
[[File:Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) - The First Marquess of Tweeddale - N03272 - National Gallery.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale]] died [[11 August]]]]
[[File:Eleanor of Austria.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Poland]] died [[17 December]]]]
[[File:Johann Carl Zirl (Zierl) - Herzog Friedrich Karl von Württemberg-Winnertal - 7180 - Bavarian State Painting Collections.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental]] died [[20 December]]]]
=== January–March ===
* [[February 16]] – [[Jan Six van Chandelier]], Dutch Golden Age poet from Amsterdam (b. [[1620]])
* [[March 15]] – [[William Wentworth (elder)|William Wentworth]], follower of John Wheelwright (b. [[1616]])
* [[January 8]] – [[Thomas Aikenhead]], Scottish student (hanged) (b. c. [[1678]])
* [[January 11]]
** [[John Bradstreet (Salem witch trials)|John Bradstreet]], accused "witch" during the Salem Witch Trials (b. [[1652]])
** [[Daniele Giustiniani]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bergamo (1664–1697) (b. [[1615]])
* [[January 12]] – [[Andrzej Stech]], Polish painter (b. [[1635]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Fortunato Ilario Carafa della Spina]], Roman Catholic cardinal (b. [[1630]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Georg Mohr]], Danish mathematician (b. [[1640]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet|John Fenwick]], English conspirator (b. c. [[1645]])
* [[January 31]] – [[Anthony Horneck]], German clergyman and scholar (b. [[1641]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Adrien de Wignacourt]], 63rd Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta from 1690 to 1697 (b. [[1618]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Esaias Fleischer (priest)|Esaias Fleischer]], Danish priest (b. [[1633]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Georg Händel]], German musician (b. [[1622]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Bernardino Plastina]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Oppido Mamertina (b. [[1645]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Francis Dane]], American colonial priest (b. [[1615]])
* [[March 1]] – [[Francesco Redi]], Italian physician (b. [[1626]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Gaspar de la Cerda, 8th Count of Galve]], viceroy of New Spain (b. [[1653]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Þórður Þorláksson]], Icelandic bishop (b. [[1637]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Nicolaus Bruhns]], German organist and composer (b. [[1665]])
* [[March 23]] – [[William Child]], English composer and organist (b. [[1606]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Godfrey McCulloch]], Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (b. [[1640]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Simon Bradstreet]], English colonial magistrate (b. [[1604]])
=== April–June ===
* [[April 1]] – [[Giyesu]], Chinese prince (b. [[1646]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Andrea Carlone]], Italian painter (b. [[1626]])
* [[April 5]] – King [[Charles XI of Sweden]], King of Sweden from 1660 to 1697 (b. [[1655]])
* [[April 8]] – [[Niels Juel]], Danish admiral (b. [[1629]])
* [[April 14]] – [[Custodio do Pinho]], Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of ''Hierapolis in Isauria'' (b. [[1638]])
* [[May 2]] – [[Simon Henry, Count of Lippe]], ruling Count of Lippe-Detmold (b. [[1639]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet]], English Member of Parliament (b. [[1634]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Ildefonso Vargas y Abarca]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Comayagua (b. [[1633]])
* [[May 12]] – [[Francesco Maria Moles]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nola (b. [[1638]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Louise Boyer]], French courtier (b. [[1632]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels]], German duke (b. [[1649]])
* [[June 3]] – [[Silvius II Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Oels]] (b. [[1651]])
* [[June 7]] – [[John Aubrey]], English writer and antiquarian (b. [[1626]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Francis Pemberton]], English judge, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench (b. [[1624]])
* [[June 12]] – [[Ann Baynard]], English natural philosopher (b. [[1672]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Gregorio Barbarigo]], Italian Catholic saint (b. [[1625]])
* [[June 19]] – [[Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough]], English diplomat (b. [[1621]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Joseph Anthelmi]], French ecclesiastical historian (b. [[1648]])
=== July–September ===
* [[July 5]] – [[Sebastijan Glavinić]], Catholic bishop (b. [[1630]])
* [[July 7]] – [[John Eachard]], English divine and satirist (b. [[1636]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Katherine Ross (died 1697)|Katherine Ross]], née Collace (c.1635–1697), memoirist and schoolmistress (b. [[1635]])
* [[July 11]] – [[Frances Ward, 6th Baroness Dudley]], English baroness (b. [[1611]])
* [[July 13]] – [[James Draper (settler)|James Draper]], early settler of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. [[1618]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1659]])
* [[July 18]]
** [[Thomas Dolman]], English politician (b. [[1622]])
** [[António Vieira]], Portuguese writer (b. [[1608]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Jan Kazimierz Denhoff]], Polish cardinal from 1686 (b. [[1649]])
* [[July 24]] – [[William Digges]], politician in the Colony of Virginia, councillor in the Province of Maryland (b. [[1651]])
* [[July 25]] – [[John Grout]], military officer (b. [[1643]])
* [[July 27]]
** [[Tun Habib Abdul Majid]], Grand Vizier of Johor (b. [[1637]])
**[[Dominik Mikołaj Radziwiłł]], Polish–Lithuanian noble and politician (b. [[1643]])
* [[July 30]] – [[Lorentz Mortensen Angell]], Norwegian merchant and landowner (b. [[1626]])
* [[August 2]]
** [[Giuseppe Bologna]], Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Capua, Archbishop of Benevento (b. [[1634]])
** [[Sir William Frankland, 1st Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1640]])
* [[August 5]] – [[Jean-Baptiste de Santeul]], French poet who wrote in Latin (b. [[1630]])
* [[August 11]] – [[John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale]], Scottish judge (b. [[1625]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Daigo Fuyumoto]], Japanese noble (b. [[1648]])
* [[September 11]]
** [[Elmas Mehmed Pasha]], Ottoman statesman, grand vizier from 1695 to 1697 (b. [[1661]])
** [[Agneta Rosenbröijer]], Finland Swedish noblewoman (b. [[1620]])
=== October–December ===
* [[October 27]] – [[Takehara An'i]], bureaucrat of Ryukyu Kingdom (b. [[1651]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Thomas Lascelles (died 1697)|Thomas Lascelles]], English politician (b. [[1624]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Samuel Enys]], English politician (b. [[1611]])
* [[November 22]] – [[Libéral Bruant]], French architect (b. c. [[1635]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew]], English politician (b. [[1624]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Poland]] (b. [[1653]])
** [[Pietro Leoni (bishop)|Pietro Leoni]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Verona, Bishop of Ceneda (b. [[1637]])
* [[December 20]]
** [[Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental]] (b. [[1652]])
** [[Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet]], Irish politician (b. [[1640]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Lucas Faydherbe]], Belgian sculptor and architect (b. [[1617]])
* ''date unknown'' –  [[Karin Thomasdotter]], Finnish official (b. [[1610]])

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