1698

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Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1660s  1670s  1680s  - 1690s -  1700s  1710s  1720s
Years:	1695 1696 1697 - 1698 - 1699 1700 1701

1698 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1698 (MDCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1698 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown dates

Events of 1698

January - June

• January 1 - The Abenaki people and the Massachusetts colonists signed a treaty ending the conflict in New England.
• January 4 - Palace of Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire.
• January 23 - George Louis (who would in 1714 become King George I of Great Britain) becomes Elector of Hanover.
• June 19 - The volcano of Carguarazon erupts in the Andes and causes a rain of fish.

July - December

• July 14 - Darien scheme: First Scottish settlers leave for an ill-fated colony in Panama.
• August 25 - Peter the Great arrives back to Moscow: General Patrick Gordon has already crushed the streltsy rebellion, with 341 rebels sentenced to be decapitated. Tradition holds that tsar Peter decapitated some of them himself.
• September 5 - In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards: all men except priests and peasants, are required to pay a tax of one hundred rubles a year, and the commoners had to pay one kopeck each.

Undated

• Whigs sponsor Captain Kidd of New York as a privateer against French shipping.
• Isaac Newton calculates the speed of sound.
• Tani Jinzan, astronomer and calendar scholar, observes a fire destroy Tosa (now Kochi) in Japan at the same time as a Leonid meteor shower, taking it as evidence to reinforce belief in the "Theory of Areas".
• Thomas Savery patents an early steam engine.
• A congress begins in Sremski Karlovci to discuss a treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League.
• Humphrey Hody is appointed regius professor of Greek at Oxford.
• Bucharest becomes capital of Wallachia (now part of Romania).
• In Africa, Mombasa and Zanzibar are captured by Oman.

Births

1698 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1698 MDCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2451
Armenian calendar	1147 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-146 – -145
Buddhist calendar	2242
Chinese calendar	4334/4394-11-20 (丁丑年十一月二十日) — to — 4335/4395-11-30 (戊寅年十一月三十日)
Ethiopian calendar	1690 – 1691
Hebrew calendar	5458 – 5459
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1753 – 1754
- Shaka Samvat	1620 – 1621
- Kali Yuga	4799 – 4800
Holocene calendar	11698
Iranian calendar	1076 – 1077
Islamic calendar	1109 – 1110
Japanese calendar	Genroku 11 (元禄11年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2358 (皇紀2358年)
- Jōmon Era	11698
Julian calendar	1743
Korean calendar	4031
Thai solar calendar	2241
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• January 13 - Metastasio, Italian poet (died 1782)
• February - Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (died 1746)
• March 26 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian (died 1765)
• May 8 - Henry Baker, English naturalist (died 1774)
• July 17 - Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (died 1759)
• July 19 - Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss author (died 1783)
• September 26 - William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (died 1755)
• December 24 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (died 1779)

Unknown dates

• Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (died 1761)

See also Category: 1698 births.

Deaths

• January 10 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (born 1637)
• March 14 - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (born 1622)
• April 29 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (born 1655)
• May 15 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (born 1642)
• July 18 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (born 1633)
• November 4 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and scientist (born 1625)
• November 28 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (born 1622)

Unknown dates

• Nicholas Barbon, English economist (born c.1640)

See also Category: 1698 deaths.

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