* 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 )

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

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

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

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

* 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 )

* 1697 – War of the Grand Alliance: A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.

* March 12 – John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer ( d. 1697 )

* February 6 – Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer ( d. 1697 )

** Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate ( d. 1697 )

* April 1 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician ( d. 1697 )

* May 8 – Niels Juel, Danish admiral ( d. 1697 )

* November 24 – King Charles XI of Sweden ( d. 1697 )

Shortly after the Peace of Ryswick ( 1697 ), the English and Germans abolished the pike and introduced ring bayonets ; and plates of them are given in Surirey de St. Remy's Mémoires d ' Artillerie, published in Paris in that year ; but owing to a military cabal they were not issued to the French infantry until 1703, using a spring-loaded locking system to prevent the bayonet from accidentally separating from the musket.

* Instructions sur les états d ' oraison ( replying to Fénelon ) ( 1697 )

* Elizabeth de Carteret ( d. 1697 ), married her cousin, Sir George Carteret.

Thomas Coventry, 5th baron ( d. 1699 ), was created an earl in 1697 with a special limitation, on failure of his own male issue, to that of Walter, youngest brother of the lord keeper, from whom the present earl of Coventry is descended.

The Crisis of French Sea Power 1688 – 1697: From the guerre d ' escadre to the guerre de course.

The tale bears resemblances to the first half of Charles Perrault's " Hop-o '- My-Thumb " ( 1697 ) and Madame d ' Aulnoy's " Finette Cendron " ( 1721 ).

His ancestor was one of the leaders in the successful defence of Carbonear Island against the French under D ’ Iberville in 1697.

In 1697, d ' Iberville won the Battle of Hudson's Bay, the largest Arctic naval battle in North American history.

During four months of raids Iberville was responsible for the destruction of thirty-six Newfoundland settlements and by the end of March 1697, only Bonavista and Carbonear Island remained in English hands.

Like many other Newfoundland English settlements, this small village was a victim to the French army of " Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville " in 1697.

* 1697 – French under d ' Iberville enter Heart's Content.

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.

Anne Marie gave her husband six children but also had two stillbirths of each gender one in 1691 and again in 1697.

In his Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning ( 1694, and again 1697 ) he took the part of the moderns, although in a fair and judicial spirit.

The Rhineland theatre in 1697 was again quiet: the French commander, Marshal Choiseul ( who had replaced the sick de Lorge the previous year ), was content to remain behind his fortified lines.

It was only by the end of the 17th century, in 1697, that Cetinje began to flourish again under the rule of the Petrović dynasty and Danilo Petrović as its founder.

She was rebuilt in 1660 and renamed Royal Sovereign, rebuilt again in 1685 and burnt by accident in 1697.

In 1697, with the Treaty of Ryswick, most parts of Lorraine gained independence again, but Saarlouis and the surrounding areas remained a French exclave.

# Marie Karolina, known as Charlotte ( 25 November 1697 – 8 May 1740 ) married twice ; firstly to Frédéric Casimir de La Tour d ' Auvergne, no issue ; married again Charles Godefroy de La Tour d ' Auvergne and had issue ;

Andrew Hamilton ( – 1703 ) was the colonial governor of East and West New Jersey from 1692 to 1697 and again from 1699 to 1703.

They returned it in 1697 but then captured it again in 1702.

However, he was later once again in the Caribbean as his name appears on the muster-roll as a surgeon in the attack on Cartagena in 1697.

The innovative painter-calligrapher Shitao lived in Yangzhou during the 1680s and again from 1697 until his death in 1707.

After officiating as a priest for two years in the parish of Magnay in the diocese of Paris, he went again to the Scots College in 1697.

In 1697 Mohun was again tried by the Lords for murder following a duel on Leicester Square.

After the death of her son in 5 April 1697, Hedwig Eleonora again became the regent of Sweden, as the chair of the Regency Council during the minority of her grandson Charles XII.

He visited Valencia in 1697, and remained there for three or four years, again devoting himself with but poor success to fresco painting.

After a period of Venetian rule from 1687 to 1697, Salona devolved to the Ottomans again ; several foreign travellers visited the town, which had about 6, 000 inhabitants at the time.

The town, with a population numbering about 100, was razed by the French in 1697, again in 1700, and captured briefly in 1762.

Wars nearly broke out again in 1664, 1694 and 1697.