1697 in England

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Events from the year 1697 in England.

Incumbents

• Monarch – William III
• Parliament – 3rd of King 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 (to celebrate the Treaty of Ryswick) held in St Paul's Cathedral since rebuilding work after the Great Fire of London began.[3]
• Poor Act 1697 requires badging of recipients of parish welfare.

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)

References

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