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Events of 1698

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

July 2 - Thomas Savery patents an early steam engine.
July 14 - Darien scheme: The first Scottish settlers leave for an ill-fated colony fin 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 100 rubles a year; commoners are required to pay one kopeck each.
November - 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".
November 16 - A congress begins in Sremski Karlovci to discuss a treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League.

The Whigs sponsor Captain Kidd of New York as a privateer against French shipping.
Isaac Newton calculates the speed of sound.
Humphrey Hody is appointed regius professor of Greek at Oxford.
Bucharest becomes the capital of Wallachia (now part of Romania).
In Africa, Mombasa and Zanzibar are captured by Oman.

See also Category: 1698 births.

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)
date unknown - Nicholas Barbon, English economist (b. c. 1640)

See also Category: 1698 deaths.

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