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 |
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).
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[edit] Events of 1698
[edit] 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.
[edit] July - December
- July 14 - Darién 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Births
| 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 |
- 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)
[edit] Unknown dates
- Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (died 1761)
- See also Category: 1698 births.
[edit] 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)
[edit] Unknown dates
- Nicholas Barbon, English economist (born c.1640)
- See also Category: 1698 deaths.
