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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
July - December
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.
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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