1697 in England

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Incumbents

15 May - Violent hail storm across Hertfordshire, perhaps the most severe ever in Britain.^[1]
20 September - The Treaty of Ryswick ends the War of the Grand Alliance.^[2]
2 December - First service (to celebrate the Treaty of Ryswick) held in St Paul's Cathedral since rebuilding work after the Great Fire of London began.^[3]

John Vanbrugh's play The Provoked Wife.^[2]
Daniel Defoe's An Essay upon Projects, favouring the implementation of income tax and the education of women.^[4]
Francis Moore (astrologer) first publishes Old Moore's Almanack.

28 January - John Fenwick, conspirator (born c. 1645)
27 March - Simon Bradstreet, colonial magistrate (born 1603)
7 June - John Aubrey, antiquary and memoirist (born 1626)
Probable year - Gilbert Clerke, mathematician, natural philosopher and theologian (born 1626)

↑ Simons, Paul (2008). Since Records Began. London: Collins. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-00-728463-4.
1 2 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 287. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. p. 780. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
↑ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 200–201. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

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Sovereign states	Andorra Austria Denmark–Norway Denmark Norway England France Holy Roman Empire Hungary Ireland Malta Monaco Netherlands Ottoman Empire Papal States Portugal Prussia Russia San Marino Scotland Spain Sweden Switzerland

Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey

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