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unusual facts about Free election, 1697



All Saints Church, Hollingbourne

Other memorials include those to Martin Barnham (d. 1610, father of Sir Francis Barnham), Dame Grace Gethin (d. 1697), Samuel Plummer (d. 1705), Baldwin Duppa (d. 1737) and Baldwin Duppa (d. 1764)

Andreas Rudman

Rudman and Björk were aboard the ship Jeffries which anchored in the James River in Virginia in June 1697.

Ann Baynard

Ann Baynard (sometimes spelled Anne) (Born 1672 Preston, Lancashire, England - June 12, 1697, Barnes, Surrey) was a British natural philosopher and model of piety.

Anne Geneviève de Lévis

Jules François Louis de Rohan, Prince of Soubise (16 January 1697 – 6 May 1724) married Anne Julie de Melun, daughter of Louis de Melun and Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, and had issue; died of Smallpox;

Antoine Grimaldi

Chevalier de Grimaldi (1697–1784), natural son of Antonio I, Governor General of the Principality of Monaco

Benjamin Hoadly

William Hogarth (1697–1764) painted his portrait as Bishop of Winchester and "Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" about 1743, etched by Bernard Baron (1696–1762).

Bhor State

The state was founded by Shankarji Narayan, who was appointed as the Pantsachiv, one of the eight hereditary ministers by Rajaram Chhatrapati in 1697, and was acceded to the Dominion of India on 8 March 1948.

Bringewood Ironworks

Richard Knight had two other sons another Richard Knight (1693-1765) and Thomas Knight (1697-1764), the latter being the father of Richard Payne Knight MP (1750-1824) and Thomas Andrew Knight FRS (1759-1838).

Buen Retiro Palace

The ceiling of the main room is decorated by a magnificent fresco by the Italian artist Luca Giordano, painted around 1696–1697 for King Charles II of Spain and depicting The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy.

Christian Davies

Once discharged, she promptly re-enlisted, this time in 4th Royal North British Dragoons (later the Scots Greys) in 1697.

Christian Friedrich Witt

Funeral ode: Wer kan des Höchsten Rath, for 5 voices (1697)

Colman O'Shaughnessy

The property had been taken from Roger O'Shaughnessy by King William III in 1690, and given to Thomas Prendergast in 1697.

Danilo Petrović-Njegoš

Metropolitan Danilo I Petrović-Njegoš, reigning prince-bishop Danilo I of Montenegro (c. 1670–1735; reigned 1697–1735)

Edward Digges

William (- 24 July 1697); he married Elizabeth Wharton, step-daughter of Lord Baltimore, and had ten children.

Eustathius of Thessalonica

(It was first printed in R. Stephens' edition of Dionysius (Paris, 1547, 4to.), and later in that of H. Stephens (Paris, 1577, 4to., and 1697, 8vo.), in Hudson's Geograph. Minor, vol.

Flitcroft

Henry Flitcroft (1697–1769), English architect in the Palladian style

Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Franz Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Saalfeld, 25 September 1697 – Rodach, 16 September 1764) was a duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Franz Ernst Brückmann

Franz Ernst Brückmann (September 27, 1697 – March 21, 1753) was a German mineralogist born at Marienthal near Helmstedt.

Frederick Augustus, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt

It was not until the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697 that reconstruction work started again and Frederick Augustus brought in 220 Waldensians and Huguenots which he settled in a specially planned town coined “Augustistadt” (Augustus town) to the north of Gochsheim.

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Internal conflict between pro-, and anti - Habsburg factions deepened, while southeastern provinces of Red Ruthenia and Podolia were raided by Crimean Tatars, who captured thousands of people.

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Despite protests of Lithuanians, Bishop of Krakow Andrzej Trzebicki initiated the process, by singing the hymn Veni Sancte Spiritus.

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Despite Russian support, Saxon army lost several battles, and soon afterwards, forces of the Swedish Empire controlled most of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Friederike Caroline Neuber

Friederike Caroline Neuber, also called Die Neuberin, (9 March 1697 in Reichenbach im Vogtland – 30 November 1760 near Dresden), was a German actress and theatre director.

Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff

Leaving the cavalry, he became an infantry officer in the service of Venice, and in 1697 in that of the Margrave of Ansbach, who in 1698 transferred the regiment in which Seckendorff was serving to the Imperial army.

George Anson

George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697–1762), British admiral, noted for his circumnavigation of the globe

George Weiss

George Michael Weiss (1697–1762), Dutch Reformed clergyman who worked in New York and Pennsylvania

Hall Place

The house remained in the Austen family until the mid 18th century when Robert Austen (1697–1743), the 4th baronet (Sheriff of Kent in 1724 and MP for New Romney from April 1728 to 1734), died and the estate was eventually purchased (c. 1772) by his brother-in-law Sir Francis Dashwood, a member of the notorious Hellfire Club.

Henrik Wergeland

His great-grandfather, Andrew Chrystie (1697–1760), was born in Dunbar, and belonged to the Scottish Clan Christie.

Henry Folliott, 3rd Baron Folliott

He succeeded to the title Baron Folliott and to extensive Irish estates on the death in 1697 of his father Thomas Folliott of Ferney Hall, Onibury, Ludlow, Shropshire and Wardtown Castle, Ballymacaward, Co Donegal.

Henry Jenkes

Henry Jenkes (died 1697), was a Gresham Professor of Rhetoric.

Jean-François Regnard

After inheriting his mother's considerable fortune in 1693, he devoted the time divided between his hôtel in Paris and his country house, the château of Grillon, near Dourdan, to writing comedies in verse for the Comédie française, twenty-three in total, the best of them being Le Joueur ("The Gamester", 1696), Le Distrait (1697), Les Menechmes and his masterwork, Le Légataire universelle ("The residuary legatee", 1706), following closely in the steps of Molière.

Louis Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken

After the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697, his lands were returned to him and he became Regent.

Mandeville House

In 1697 William III granted the property that included the future Mandeville House to Adolphe Philipse, whose family owned much of today's Putnam County.

Naturalistic pantheism

The term “pantheism" is derived from Greek words pan (Greek: πᾶν) meaning "all" and theos (θεός) meaning God. The term pantheism was coined by Joseph Raphson in his work De spatio reali, published in 1697. The term was also used by Irish writer John Toland in his 1705 work Socinianism Truly Stated, by a pantheist that described pantheism as the "opinion of those who believe in no other eternal being but the universe.

Navy Times

Navy Times (ISSN 0028-1697) is a weekly newspaper serving active, reserve and retired United States Navy personnel and their families, providing news, information and analysis as well as community lifestyle features, educational supplements and resource guides.

Nicolas de Grigny

By late 1697 de Grigny was appointed titular organist of Notre-Dame de Reims (the exact date of the appointment is not known), the city's famous cathedral in which French kings were crowned.

Nicolaus Bruhns

Nicolaus Bruhns (Nikolaus, Nicholas) (late 1665 – in Schwabstedt; 29 March 1697 in Husum) was a Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer.

Philip Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg

He married for the third time in Greiz on 28 July 1688 Christine Magdalene (1652–1697), daughter of Count Henry I of Reuss to Obergreiz.

Simon Henry, Count of Lippe

Henry Simon, Count of Lippe (13 March 1649 in Sternberg – 2 May 1697 in Detmold), was a ruling Count of Lippe-Detmold

Sir Charles Wolseley, 2nd Baronet

Robert Wolseley (died 1697), Envoy-Extraordinary to the Governor General of the Spanish Netherlands, died unmarried

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Isell (1697–1737), MP for Boroughbridge 1718-1722 and Cockermouth

Spanish conquest of Yucatán

It would take some 170 years before the last recognized Maya stronghold fell, that of the Itza capital of Nojpetén on Lake Petén Itzá, in 1697.

Sweetness and light

In On Ancient and Modern Learning (1697), Swift's patron, the urbane Sir William Temple, had weighed in on the losing side, that of the Ancients, repeating the famous paradox used by Newton that we moderns see further only because we are dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants.

Synaphea spinulosa

Prior to this, the only known visit by Europeans to an area where S. spinulosa occurs was the voyage of Dutch mariner Willem de Vlamingh, who explored Rottnest Island and the Swan River in December 1696 and January 1697 respectively.

Treaty of The Hague

Treaty of The Hague (1697) - better known as Treaty of Rijswick, the suburb of The Hague

Tseveenravdan

Tseveenravdan (English name:Tsewang Rabtan; from Tibetan Cêwang Rabdain; died 1727) was a Choros-Oirat prince and the Khong Tayiji of the Zunghar Khanate from 1697 (following the death of his uncle and rival Galdan Boshugtu Khan) until his death in 1727.

Unitarian martyrs

1697: Thomas Aikenhead - a medical student, executed for dening the Holy Trinity, an offence under England's Blasphemy Act 1697.

Warren Boroson

His play, Blasphemy, is about the 1697 prosecution and execution of Thomas Aikenhead for blasphemy.

William Steuart

One month later Steuart married Eliza, daughter of Sir Rowland Alston (1654–1697), 2nd Bart., of Odell Castle, Bedfordshire, by his wife Temperance, daughter and heiress of Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew.


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