1698
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| Years: 1695 1696 1697 - 1698 - 1699 1700 1701 | |
| Decades: 1660s 1670s 1680s - 1690s - 1700s 1710s 1720s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century | |
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.
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)
Deaths
- November 28 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)
- Nicholas Barbon, English economistaf:1698
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