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Born in 1697:
German
composer
and musical theorist
Johann Joaquim Quantz
.
English
illustrator
William Hogarth
.
English
antiquarian
John Aubrey
, pioneer of
archaeology
, after whom the
Aubrey Holes
at
Stonehenge
are named.
French
violin
composer
Jean-Marie Leclair
.
British
admiral
George Anson
.
French
socialite
and
wit
, Marquise
Marie Anne du Deffand
.
Scottish
poet
Richard Savage
.
English poet
Mehetabel "Hetty" Wright
.
Italian
painter
Giovanni Antonio Canal, aka "
Canaletto
."
German
lutenist
and composer
Adam Falckenhagen
.
Japanese
historian
Kamo no Mabuchi
.
Died in 1697:
Swedish
King
Charles XI
. His fifteen-year-old son succeeds him as
Charles XII
, and Northern Europe is in for a bumpy ride.
Chinese
painter
Mei Ch'ing
.
Dutch
painter
Jan de Braij
.
English dramatist
Edward Ravenscroft
.
Spanish
theologian
Miguel de Molinos
.
Danish
mathematician
Georg Mohr
.
Italian mathematician
Stefano degli Angeli
.
Dzungar
Mongol
warlord
Galdan Boshogtu
.
20,000 Ottoman soldiers at Zenta.
Events of 1697:
Tsar
Peter the Great
travels incognitio around Europe; however, when he goes into a
Haarlem
barber shop for a shave, the barber recognizes him.
William Penn
publishes a
Plan of Union
, essentially a way for the English North American colonies to resolve disputes without involving the Crown.
Daniel Defoe
publishes
An Essay On Projects
.
William Congreve
's play
The Mourning Bride
(containing the famous line "
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast
") premeires.
John Dryden
publishes an "
Ode for St Cecilia's Day
",
later
set to music as "
Alexander's Feast
" by
Georg Friederic Handel
.
Cossacks claim
Kamchatka
for
Russia
.
Qing Emperor
Kang Xi
crushes an invading Mongol army (see above), and then permits Han men to cultivate land north of the
Great Wall
for the first time.
The first services are held in the incomplete
St. Paul's Cathedral
.
Gotokuji Temple
is completed in
Edo
(now
Tokyo
).
At the
Battle of Zenta
, prince
Eugene of Savoy
crushes the
Ottoman
army. An embarrassing defeat, as Eugene also captures all of the army's prosivions and artillery, and 10 of the
Sultan
's wives.
Polish
nobles elect a successor to King
Jan Sobiseki
, who had died the year before:
Frederick August I
, Elector of Saxony, after he converts to Catholicism.
King William's War
also known as the
War of the League of Augsburg
, or the
Nine Years' War
sees much action in North America, with
Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville
, destroying the English military presence along
Hudson Bay
. Unfortunately, even
Louis XIV
cannot continue fighting every other power in Europe, even if some of them are involved in other wars. In September, the
Treaty of Ryswick
(aka treaty of Nymegen) restores the status quo in America and on the Continent; King
Louis XIV
of
France
withdraws his troops from the occupied
Spanish Netherlands
and
The Palatinate
, as well as border forts he had captured in previous wars. However, in the Carribean,
Spain
cedes the western part of
Hispaniola
to France, the part which will later be called "
Haiti
".
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