1698
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Years: 1695 1696 1697 - 1698 - 1699 1700 1701 |
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Decades: 1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720s |
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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Events
- January 4 - Palace of Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire.
- June 19 - Volcano of Carguarazon erupts in the Andes and causes a rain of fish
- August 25 – Peter the Great arrives back to Moscow - general Patrick Gordon has already crushed the streltsy rebellion - 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 kopek each
- Whigs sponsor Captain Kidd of New York as a privateer against French shipping
- Darien Scheme - First Scottish settlers leave for an ill-fated colony in Panama
- 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 storm, 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).
- Mombasa and Zanzibar are captured by Oman.
- George Louis (who would in 1714 become King George I of Great Britain) becomes Elector of Hanover.
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Births
- January 13 - Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
- February - Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (d. 1746)
- March 26 - Vaclav Prokop Divis, Czech theologian (d. 1765)
- May 8 - Henry Baker, English naturalist (d. 1774)
- July 17 - Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (d. 1759)
- July 19 - Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss author (d. 1783)
- September 26 - William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (d. 1755)
- December 24 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (d. 1779)
- Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (d. 1761)
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Deaths
- January 10 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)
- March 14 - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
- April 29 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
- May 15 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
- July 18 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
- November 4 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and scientist (b. 1625)
- November 28 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
- Nicholas Barbon, English economist