1697 in England
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 1697 in England: |
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Events from the year 1697 in the Kingdom of England.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - William III of England
[edit] Events
- 20 September - The Treaty of Ryswick ends the War of the Grand Alliance.[1]
- 2 December - First service held in St Paul's Cathedral since rebuilding work after the Great Fire of London began.[2]
[edit] Publications
- John Vanbrugh's play The Provoked Wife.[1]
- Daniel Defoe's An Essay upon Projects, favouring the implementation of income tax and the education of women.[3]
[edit] Births
- 10 November - William Hogarth, artist (died 1764)
[edit] Deaths
- 28 January - John Fenwick, conspirator (born c.1645)
- 27 March - Simon Bradstreet, colonial magistrate (born 1603)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 287. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 780. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
- ^ Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 200-201. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
