Editing 1698 (section)

=== 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.