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Events on Sunday 15 September 1697 1
1697Augustus II elected King of PolandThe Elector of Saxony converts to Catholicism to win the Polish throneFrederick Augustus I of Saxony converted to Roman Catholicism and was elected King of Poland as Augustus II, narrowly defeating the French-backed candidate Francois Louis de Bourbon-Conti. He was crowned in Cracow in September, beginning a personal union between Saxony and Poland-Lithuania that lasted, with one interruption, until 1763.