1698

Events of 1698

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 14 - Darien 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; 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.

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)

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)