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Years:
1697 1698 1699 - 1700 - 1701 1702 1703

Decades:
1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar.
January 1 - in around this year, Germany and Denmark-Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar, including the convention that New Year's Day is January 1st.
January 26 - One of the greatest earthquakes on record ruptures the submarine Cascadia thrust fault from Vancouver Island to northern California, creating a tsunami logged in Japan and oral traditions of the American First Nations.
February 27 - The island of New Britain is discovered.
November 20 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva.
Vietnamese gain control of entire Indochina peninsula.
The Great Northern War begins when Russia, Denmark and Saxony/Poland make a coordinated attack on Sweden (to 1721).
Control of Spain passes from the Habsburgs to the Bourbons.
December 28 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
March 1 - Swedish calendar adopted.
Mission San Xavier del Bac founded in New Spain near Tucson, as a Spanish Roman Catholic mission.