Events from the year 1697 in England.
Incumbents
Events
Publications
Births
Deaths
- 28 January â Sir John Fenwick, Jacobite conspirator, beheaded (born c. 1645)
- 27 March â Simon Bradstreet, colonial magistrate (born 1603)
- 8 May â Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet, politician (born 1634)
- 7 June â John Aubrey, antiquary and memoirist (born 1626)
- 10 June â Francis Pemberton, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench (born 1624)
- 12 June â Ann Baynard, natural philosopher (born 1672)
- 19 June â Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, diplomat (born 1621)
- 18 July â Thomas Dolman, politician (born 1622)
- 8 November â Samuel Enys, politician (born 1611)
- Undated â Mary Speke, nonconformist patron and political activist (born c. 1625)
- Probable year â Gilbert Clerke, mathematician, natural philosopher and theologian (born 1626)
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