Years: 1697 1698 1699 - 1700 - 1701 1702 1703

Decades: 1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Events

• January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar.
• January 1 - in around this year, Germany and Denmark-Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar, including the convention that New Year's Day is January 1st.
• January 26 - One of the greatest earthquakes on record ruptures the submarine Cascadia thrust fault from Vancouver Island to northern California, creating a tsunami logged in Japan and oral traditions of the American First Nations.[1][2]
• February 27 - The island of New Britain is discovered.
• November 20 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva.
• Vietnamese gain control of entire Indochina peninsula.
• The Great Northern War begins when Russia, Denmark and Saxony/Poland make a coordinated attack on Sweden (to 1721).
• Control of Spain passes from the Habsburgs to the Bourbons.
• December 28 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• March 1 - Swedish calendar adopted.
• Mission San Xavier del Bac founded in New Spain near Tucson, as a Spanish Roman Catholic mission.

Births

• February 9 - Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician (died 1782)
• May 26 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf (died 1760)
• Klemens August of Bavaria (died 1761)

Deaths

• May 12 - John Dryden, English poet and playwright (born 1631).
• September 15 - Andre Le Notre, French landscape gardener (born 1613).
• September 27 - Pope Innocent XII (born 1615).
• November 1 - Charles II of Spain, last of the Spanish Habsburgs (born 1661).
• Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor, emigrated to England, father of Colley Cibber (born 1630).
• Patriarch Adrian of the Russian Orthodox Church, last Patriarch of Moscow until the Russian Revolution.
• Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, son of Princess Anne, two years before she became Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1689).
• Artus Quellinues de Jonge , Dutch sculptor (born 1625).