1697 in England
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Events from the year 1697 in the Kingdom of England.
Incumbents
- Monarch - William III
Events
- 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 held in St Paul's Cathedral since rebuilding work after the Great Fire of London began.[3]
Publications
- 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.
Births
- 10 November - William Hogarth, artist (died 1764)
Deaths
- 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)
