* 1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1745 )

* 1640 – Amalia Catharina, German poet and composer ( d. 1697 )

* 1697 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, German composer and organist ( d. 1778 )

* René-Prosper Tassin ( 1697 – 1777 )

* 4 Kings and Queen of Poland ( 1370 – 1399, 1573 – 1574, 1697 )

From 1697 to 1698 he defended the right of King William III to a standing army during disarmament after the Treaty of Ryswick ( 1697 ) had ended the Nine Years ' War ( 1688 – 97 ).

* 1697 – Giuseppe de Majo, Italian composer and organist ( d. 1771 )

* 1608 – Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer ( d. 1697 )

* Josse Boutmy, composer, organist and harpsichordist ( 1697 – 1779 )

Louis XIV of France conquered parts of Alsace and Lorraine ( 1678 – 1681 ), and had invaded and devastated the Electorate of the Palatinate ( 1688 – 1697 ) in the War of Palatinian Succession.

* 1697 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer ( d. 1773 )

* 1629 – Niels Juel, Danish admiral ( d. 1697 )

* 1697 – Stockholm's royal castle ( dating back to medieval times ) is destroyed by fire.

* 1697 – Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate ( b. 1603 )

* King Williams War ( 1688 – 1697 ),

* 1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.

* 1697 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer ( d. 1760 )

* 1655 – Charles XI of Sweden ( d. 1697 )

* 1697 – Duchess Maria Karolina Sobieska of Bouillon ( d. 1740 )

* 1640 – Carlo Mannelli, Italian violinist, castrato and composer ( d. 1697 )

Mustafa II ( 1695 – 1703 ) led the Ottoman counter attack of 1695 – 6 against the Habsburgs in Hungary, but was undone at the disastrous defeat at Zenta ( 11 September 1697 ).

Following the advice of the President of the Imperial War Council, Rüdiger Starhemberg, Eugene was offered supreme command of Imperial forces in April 1697.

But the English government opposed the idea: involved in the War of the Grand Alliance from 1689 to 1697 against France, it did not want to offend Spain, which claimed the territory as part of New Granada.

In the ensuing War of the Grand Alliance, France was forced to give up the duchy, which was returned to the Habsburgs by the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697.

* 1697 – The Treaty of Rijswijk is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic ending the Nine Years ' War ( 1688 – 97 ).

This position changed in 1689 when Leopold secured William III of England's support to claim the undivided Spanish Empire in return for Leopold's aid against France in the War of the Grand Alliance ( 1688 – 1697 ).

As the War of the Grand Alliance came to a close in 1697, the issue of the Spanish succession was becoming critical.

* May 12 – Nine Years ' War: With England and the Netherlands both now ruled by William III, they join the Grand Alliance ( League of Augsburg ), thus escalating the conflict, which continues until 1697.

At the same time, Austria was becoming more involved in competition with France in Western Europe, with Austria fighting the French in the Third Dutch War ( 1672 – 1679 ), the War of the League of Augsburg ( 1688 – 1697 ) and finally the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), in which the French and Austrians ( along with their British, Dutch and Catalonian allies ) fought over the inheritance of the vast territories of the Spanish Habsburgs.

Although the young Swedish King Charles XII ( 1682 – 1718 ; reigned 1697 – 1718 ) won spectacular victories in the early years of the Great Northern War, most notably in the stunning success against the Russians at the Battle of Narva ( 1700 ), his plan to attack Moscow and force Russia into peace proved too ambitious.

These territorial changes were reinforced at the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick which ended the War of the Grand Alliance.

France occupied the Duchy for almost thirty years, only giving it up in the Treaty of Ryswick which ended the Nine Years ' War in 1697.

During King William's War ( 1689 to 1697 ) military conflicts in Acadia included: Battle of Port Royal ( 1690 ); a naval battle in the Bay of Fundy ( Action of July 14, 1696 ); and the Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 ).

The Dwarves of Moria at first fought in the War of Sauron and the Elves, but in the year 1697 of the Second Age, the doors of Khazad-dûm were shut and its inhabitants no longer ventured forth into the world.

The reconstruction after the Raid on Cartagena ( 1697 ) was initially slow, but with the end of the War of the Spanish Succession around 1711 and the competent administration of Juan Díaz de Torrezar Pimienta, the walls were rebuilt, the forts reorganized and restored, and the public services and buildings reopened.

* the Nine Years ' War ( 1688 – 1697 ), also called the " War of the Grand Alliance " or " War of the Palatine Succession "

King William's War ended in 1697, but a second war ( Queen Anne's War ) broke out in 1702.

* 1689-King William's War ( 1689 – 1697 ), part of the wider War of the Grand Alliance, begins

) This is an allusion to the wars fought under King William III and Queen Anne against France under Louis XIV, the War of the Grand Alliance ( 1689 – 1697 ) and the War of the Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1713 ).

In the “ War of the Palatine Succession ” ( 1688 – 1697 ) – also called the “ War of the Grand Alliance ”, the “ Nine Years ’ War ” or occasionally, the “ War of the League of Augsburg ” the town experienced the greatest and most far-reaching destruction in its history by General Melac: the expulsion of its inhabitants and the whole town put to the torch, including the cathedral with the tombs of the ancient emperors, churches, monasteries, and guild halls.

This organization fought the War of the Grand Alliance against France from 1688 to 1697.

Three wars were fought during this period, the War of Devolution ( 1667 – 1668 ), the Franco-Dutch War ( 1672 – 1678 ), and the War of the Grand Alliance ( 1688 – 1697 ).

* was a 46-gun ship launched in 1653 and sunk in 1697 in action with the French ship Pelican in Hudson Bay during the War of the Grand Alliance.

In Peter's Grand Embassy to the West in 1697 Golovin occupied the second place immediately after Franz Lefort.

Stanisław Michał Ernest Denhoff (,, c. 1673 – 2 August 1728 ) was a Polish – Lithuanian noble ( szlachcic ), Grand Master of the Hunt of Lithuania ( from 1697 ), Grand Chorąży of the Crown ( 1704-1721 ), voivode of Połock ( 1721-1728 ), politician and a military commander ( Field Hetman of Lithuania, 1709-1728 ).

He was Grand Master of the Hunt of Lithuania since 1697.

In the War of the Grand Alliance ( 1689 – 1697 ) Coehoorn served as a brigadier.

In 1697 the Treaty of Ryswick was signed, marking the end of the War of the Grand Alliance and finally bringing peace to the town.

During 1697 and 1698 he went on a Grand Tour and in 1700 was admitted to the Scottish Bar.

* War of the English Succession, which is more commonly called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg ( 1688 – 1697 ).

During the Grand Embassy of Peter the Great to Europe ( 1697 ), the tsar was allowed by the Dutch sailors to command a ship, where Vieira served as a cabin-boy.