The palace, after the acquisition of Albano by the Apostolic Chamber in 1697, became the home of the papal government, and hosted various personalities.

In the same year, he returned also to parliament for Cambridge University, and became a prominent spokesman of the " country " opposition, but in 1697 he switched to the court party.

France established direct control in 1640, reorganizing it into an official colony and expanding to the north coast of Hispaniola itself, whose western end Spain ceded to France in 1697 under the Treaty of Ryswick.

Spain tacitly recognized the French presence in the western third of the island in the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick ; the Spanish deliberately omitted direct reference to the island from the treaty, but they were never able to reclaim this territory from the French.

France was forced to relinquish the Saar province in 1697, but from 1793 to 1815 regained control of the region.

By 1697 the war came to a close with the Treaty of Ryswick, now Rijswijk in the Netherlands, and the Palatinate remained free of French control.

From the year 1686 to the more commonly known Battle of Senta in 1697 the town and its surroundings were no longer under Ottoman control, but at the same time were neither controlled by the Habsburgs.

The exhaustion of the powers brought the fighting to an end in 1697, by which time the French were in control of the Spanish Netherlands and Catalonia.

In 1697 Trinity Church gained control of the burial grounds in the city and passed an ordinance excluding Africans from being buried in churchyards.

From 1697 to 1701, a critical period of Irish history, the Earl of Galway ( he was advanced to that rank in 1697 ) was practically in control of Irish affairs as Lord Justice of Ireland.

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

* 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 ).

Neither cleric was charged under the Blasphemy Act 1697 that made it an offence for any person, educated in or having made profession of the Christian religion, by writing, preaching, teaching or advised speaking, to deny the Holy Trinity.

* January 20 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor ( b. 1697 )

The village of Cahokia is the home of significant colonial and Federal-period buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Cahokia Courthouse ( c 1740 ), in the French Colonial style, Church of the Holy Family ( Cahokia ) ( c. 1697 ), and the Jarrot Mansion ( c 1810 ).

Category: 1697 in the Holy Roman Empire

The ministers were right in their conjectures ; the work not only provoked a great number of replies, but occasioned a formal complaint from the Lower House of Convocation: the Blasphemy Act 1697 still made it an offence for any person, educated in or having made profession of the Christian religion, by writing, preaching, teaching or advised speaking, to deny the Holy Trinity.

In spite of all sorts of obstacles, and of the slowness of the Holy See, which in 1693 imparted indulgences to the Confraternities of the Sacred Heart and, in 1697, granted the feast to the Visitandines with the Mass of the Five Wounds, but refused a feast common to all, with special Mass and Office.

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

* Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1697 – 1745 ), King of Bohemia, and Elector of Bavaria

In the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, Breisach was returned to the Holy Roman Empire, but then reconquered on September 7, 1703 by General Villars at the beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession.

* Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, general field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire, nicknamed Turk Louis for his successes against the Turks and now in possession of a great war prize, in 1699 altered plans for a hunting lodge being built near the village of Rastatt since 1697.

The Habsburg connection was cemented by his marriage ( 1678 ) to Eleonora Maria Josefa, Archduchess of Austria ( 1653 – 1697 ), daughter of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleonore Gonzaga.

* The Church of the Holy Mandylion ( Spaso-Obydenskaya Church, 1691 — 1697 );

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

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

From about 1697 onwards ( La caduta del Decemviri ), influenced partly perhaps by the style of Giovanni Bononcini and probably more by the taste of the viceregal court, his opera arias become more conventional and commonplace in rhythm, while his scoring is hasty and crude, yet not without brilliance ( L ' Eraclea, 1700 ), the oboes and trumpets being frequently used, and the violins often playing in unison.

In his opera Teodora ( 1697 ) he originated the use of the orchestral ritornello.

When Peter the Great went to Holland in 1716 ( he was in Holland before in 1697 to instruct himself in maritime affairs ), he also took lessons from Boerhaave.

" ( Book of The Life of Sir William Phips first published anonymously in London in 1697 ) And Mather then included the letter, but, for his own reasons ( surely not brevity, Magnalia is huge ) left out the first, second, and eight sections, which would seem most encouraging to the judges to carry-on with their work.

( Meyers 23-24 ) It is composed of seven total books, including Pietas in Patriam: the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, originally published anonymously in London in 1697.

Kidd killed one of his own crewmen on 30 October 1697.

David Gregory wrote a treatise on the catenary in 1697.

De Fer in turn had copied images that were first printed in books by Louis Hennepin, published in 1697, and François Du Creux, in 1664.

Tsangyang Gyatso, the Sixth Dalai Lama, was not enthroned until 1697.

Defoe's first notable publication was An Essay upon Projects, a series of proposals for social and economic improvement, published in 1697.

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

At the end of the 17th century ( 1697 ) the Shihabs succeeded the Ma ' ans in the feudal leadership of Druze southern Lebanon, although they reportedly professed Sunni Islam, they showed sympathy with Druzism, the religion of the majority of their subjects.

However, the Prince's fame was secured with his decisive victory against the Ottomans at the Battle of Zenta in 1697, earning him European-wide fame.

With the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick in September / October 1697, the desultory war in the west was finally brought to an inconclusive end, and Leopold I could once again devote all his martial energies into defeating the Ottoman Turks in the east.

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

Leopold I had warned Eugene to act cautiously, but when the Imperial commander learnt of Sultan Mustafa II's march on Transylvania Eugene abandoned all ideas of a defensive campaign and moved to intercept the Turks as they crossed the River Tisza at Zenta on 11 September 1697.

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

The last cities conquered were Tayasal, capital of the Itzá Maya, and Zacpetén, capital of the Ko ' woj Maya, both in 1697, after several attempts.

In 1697 Telemann left for Hildesheim, where he entered the famous Gymnasium Andreanum.

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.

In 1697, d ' Iberville again commanded a French naval raid on York Factory.