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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 ).

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

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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 .

Undated

Whigs sponsor Captain Kidd of New York as a Privateer against French shipping.

Isaac Newton calculates the Speed Of Sound .

Thomas Savery patents an early Steam Engine .

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

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 )

''date unknown'' - Bernard Forest De Bélidor , French engineer (died 1761 )

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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 )

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

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