Editing 1698 (section)

== Events ==

=== January–March ===
* [[January 1]] – The [[Abenaki]] tribe and [[Province of Massachusetts Bay|Massachusetts]] colonists sign a treaty, ending the conflict in [[New England]].
* [[January 4]] – The [[Palace of Whitehall]] in [[London]], [[Kingdom of England|England]] is destroyed by fire.<ref>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p48</ref>
* [[January 23]] – [[George I of Great Britain|George Louis]] becomes [[Elector of Hanover]] upon the death of his father, [[Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover|Ernest Augustus]]. Because the widow of Ernest Augustus, George's mother [[Sophia of Hanover|Sophia]], was heiress presumptive as the cousin of [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]], and Anne's closest eligible heir, George will become King of Great Britain.
* [[January 30]] – [[William Kidd]], who initially seized foreign ships under authority as a privateer for the British Empire before becoming a [[pirate]], becomes an outlaw and uses his ship, the ''[[Adventure Galley]]'', to capture an Indian ship, the valuable ''[[Quedagh Merchant]]'', near [[India]]. 
* [[February 17]] – The [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] fort at [[Gingee]] falls after a siege of almost nine years by the [[Mughal Empire]] as King Rajaram escapes to safety. General [[Swarup Singh of Gingee|Swarup Singh Bundela]], who led the scaling of the fortress walls and Gingee's capture, is rewarded by Mughal Emperor [[Aurangzeb]] with command of the area.<ref>"Gingee I 1689—1698 Mughal—Maratha Wars", in ''Dictionary of Battles and Sieges'', ed. by Tony Jacques (Greenwood Press, 2007) p. 395</ref>
* [[March 8]] – The [[Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]], the oldest Anglican mission organization in the world, is founded by English clergyman [[Thomas Bray]] and four other people at [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[London]], along with Sir [[Humphrey Mackworth]], [[Maynard Colchester]], [[Francis North, 2nd Baron Guilford|Lord Guilford]] and [[John Hooke (judge)|John Hooke]].
* March
** English Bishop [[Jeremy Collier]] publishes his pamphlet ''[[Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage|A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage]]'', accusing several contemporary playwrights of undermining public morality in their popular comedies by using profanity, blasphemy and indecency.
** [[Samuel Cranston]] becomes the governor of the [[Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]].

=== April–June ===
* [[April 1]] – Scottish pirate [[William Kidd]] and his crew arrive at [[Île Sainte-Marie]] off of the coast of [[Madagascar]] in Kidd's ''[[Adventure Galley]]'' bringing with them the cargo of the captured ships ''[[Quedagh Merchant]]'' and ''Rouparelle''. Upon arrival, all but 13 of Kidd's crew desert to work for another pirate, [[Robert Culliford]]. The ''Adventure Galley'', which is leaking and falling apart, sinks and the ''Rouparelle'' is sunk by the deserters. Kidd and his 13 henchmen depart on ''Quedah Merchant''.
* [[April 10]] – A total solar eclipse is visible in central America.<ref name="Apr10">{{Cite web|url=https://www.eclipsewise.com/solar/SEprime/1601-1700/SE1698Apr10Tprime.html|title=Total Solar Eclipse of 1698 Apr 10|work=EclipseWise.com|access-date=2022-09-19}}</ref> 
* [[May 1]] – The [[Banishment Act]] of 1697 goes into effect for Roman Catholic church officials in [[Ireland]], having been the deadline for all "popish archbishops, bishops, vicars general, deans, jesuits, monks, friars, and other regular popish clergy" to have reported to Irish ports for deportation. Re-entry to Ireland after May 4, 1698, is a criminal offense with a penalty of 12 months imprisonment and expulsion, while a second re-entry is punishable by death as treason.
* [[May 4]] – At the imperial capital at [[Inwa]], [[Sanay Min]] of the [[Toungoo dynasty]] becomes the new [[List of Burmese monarchs#Toungoo (1510–1752)|King of Burma]] upon the death of his father, [[Minye Kyawhtin]].
* [[May 17]] – The British Royal Navy ship [[HMS Hastings (1698)|HMS ''Hastings'']], a 32-gun fifth rate, is launched.
* [[June 20]] – [[1698 Ambato earthquake|An earthquake]] of magnitude 7.2–7.9 damages an extended region around [[Ambato, Ecuador]], including the Tungurahua, Cotopaxi and Chimborazo provinces. Ambato and Latacunga are completely destroyed and several thousand casualties are reported.<ref name="Ambato">{{Cite journal|journal=Geophysical Journal International|volume=181|issue=3|date=June 2010|pages=1613–1633|title=Locations and magnitudes of historical earthquakes in the Sierra of Ecuador (1587–1996)|first1=Céline|first2=Hugo|first3=William H.|first4=José|first5=Alexandra|first6=Juan-Carlos|last1=Beauval|last2=Yepes|last3=Bakun|last4=Egred|last5=Alvarado|last6=Singaucho|doi=10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04569.x |bibcode=2010GeoJI.181.1613B |s2cid=4617325 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] – [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|John Churchill, Earl of Marlborough]] is reinstated in the English Army, with readmission to the Privy Council by King William III. On July 26, he is selected as one of the Lords Justice.<ref>C. T. Atkinson, ''Marlborough and the Rise of the British Army'' (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921) p. 150</ref>
* [[June 22]] – The executions of 57 leaders of the [[Streltsy uprising]] begin and continue until June 28.<ref>V. I. Buganov, ''Moscow uprisings of the late 17th century'' (Nauka, 1969) p.399</ref>
* [[June 24]] – The [[Trade with Africa Act 1697]] goes into effect in [[English overseas possessions]], ending the monopoly of the [[Royal African Company]] (RAC) on the [[triangular trade]] by opening it to any English merchants who pay a 10 percent fee to the RAC.

=== July–September ===
* [[July 7]] – The English House of Commons is dissolved and [[1698 English general election|new elections are held]] between July 19 and August 10 for a parliament to be summoned on August 24.<ref name=Members>''Members of Parliament Return to Two Orders of the Honourable the House of Commons. Parliaments of England, 1213-1702'' (House of Commons, 1878) pp. 589-595</ref>
* [[July 14]] – [[Darien scheme]]: The first Scottish settlers leave for an ill-fated colony in [[Panama]].
* [[July 25]] – English engineer [[Thomas Savery]] obtains a [[patent]] for a [[Pump#Steam pumps|steam pump]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=E. I.|last=Carlyle|title=Savery, Thomas (1650?–1715)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24733|access-date=2011-11-05|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/24733}}</ref>
* [[August 24]] – King William III opens the newly elected House of Commons at Westminster.<ref name=Members/>
* [[August 25]] – [[Peter the Great]] arrives back in Moscow; General [[Patrick Gordon]] has already crushed the [[Streltsy Uprising]], with 341 rebels sentenced to be decapitated.
* [[September 5]]
** In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar [[Peter I of Russia]] imposes a [[beard tax]].
** A charter is granted by King William III of England to the new [[East India Company|East India Company of England]], called "the New Company" or "the English Company" to break the monopoly that has existed in [[India]] since [[1689]] with the existing [[British East India Company]].<ref>"Charters Granted to the Second East India Company", in ''A Collection of Charters and Statutes Relating to the East India Company'' (Eyre and Strahan, 1817) p. vii</ref>
* [[September 8]] – The [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] defeats the [[Tatars]] in the [[Battle of Podhajce (1698)|Battle of Podhajce]], the last battle between the [[Ottoman Empire]] and the Polish and Lithuanians.

=== October–December ===
* [[October 11]] – The [[Treaty of The Hague (1698)|Treaty of the Hague]] is signed between the [[Dutch Republic]], England and France.<ref name="Pocket Date Book">{{cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|url=https://archive.org/details/pocketdatebooko00categoog|publisher=Chapman and Hall|first=William L. R.|last=Cates|author-link=William Leist Readwin Cates|year=1863}}</ref>
* [[October 24]] – Iberville and [[Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville|Bienville]] sail from [[Brest, France|Brest]] to the [[Gulf of Mexico]], to defend the southern borders of [[New France]].<ref name="CB">{{cite DCB|title=Le Moyne de Bienville, Jean-Baptiste |first=C. E. |last=O’Neill |volume=3 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/le_moyne_de_bienville_jean_baptiste_3E.html}}</ref>
* [[November 2]] – The [[Darien scheme]] Scottish settlers land in Panama and establish their ill-fated colony; 80% of them would die within the first year.
* [[November 14]]
** The first [[Eddystone Lighthouse]], built off [[Plymouth]], England, is illuminated.
** The Spanish king Carlos names his grandson Jozef Ferdinand as his heir.
* [[November 16]] – A congress begins in [[Sremski Karlovci]] to discuss a treaty between the [[Ottoman Empire]] and the [[Great Turkish War|Holy League]].
* [[November]] – Tani Jinzan, [[astronomer]] and [[calendar]] scholar, observes a fire destroy Tosa (now [[Kōchi Prefecture|Kōchi]]) in Japan at the same time as a [[Leonids|Leonid]] [[meteor shower]], taking it as evidence to reinforce belief in the "Theory of Areas".
* [[December 8]] – King [[William III of England]] issues a proclamation of "our most gracious pardon unto all such pirates in the East Indies, viz., all eastward of the [[Cape of Good Hope]], who shall surrender themselves for piracies or robberies committed by them upon sea or land" before April 30, 1699, to Captain [[Thomas Warren (Royal Navy officer)|Thomas Warren]], but specifically "excepting [[Henry Every]], alias Bridgman, and [[William Kidd]].<ref>Arthur M. Harris, "Pirate Tales from the Law" (Little, Brown and Company, 1923) pp. 47-48</ref>
* [[December 9]] – [[Francis Nicholson]] becomes the new [[List of colonial governors of Virginia|British colonial governor of Virginia]], succeeding Sir [[Edmund Andros]].<ref>R. A. Brock, ''Virginia and Virginians: Eminent Virginians'' (Clearfield Press, 1888) p.10</ref> 
* [[December 12]] – [[Mombasa]] (referred to at the time as Fort Jesus, and now part of [[Kenya]]) falls under control of the Emirate of [[Oman]], with Imam Sa'if ibn Sultan as the first Omani Governor.

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Bucharest]] becomes the capital of [[Wallachia]] (part of modern-day [[Romania]]).
* In Africa, [[Zanzibar]] is captured by [[Oman]].
* The [[Whigs (British political party)|Whigs]] sponsor [[Captain Kidd]] of New York as a [[privateer]] against French shipping.
* [[Humphrey Hody]] is appointed regius professor of Greek at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]].
* [[Shepherd Neame Brewery]] founded.
* [[Ukraine]] suffers a great famine.