Year 1697 (MDCXCVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). Events of 1697 January - June March - Peter the Great sets out to travel in Europe officially as "artilleryman Pjotr Mikhailov" March - The Spanish conquest of the Yucatan is complete with the fall of the Itza kingdom. April 5 - Charles XII becomes king of Sweden upon the death of his father,… (More on 1697)