Editing 1698

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[[File:The Old Palace of Whitehall by Hendrik Danckerts.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[January 4]]: In England, the [[Palace of Whitehall]] is destroyed by fire.]]
[[File:Surikov streltsi.jpg|300px|thumb|[[June 22]]: Executions of 57 leaders of the [[Streltsy uprising]] begin in Russia and last for seven days (1881 painting by [[Vasily Surikov]])]]

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== 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.

== Births ==
[[File:Metastasio by Batoni.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pietro Metastasio]] born [[3 January]]]]
[[File:Giovanni_Battista_de'_Rossi.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Giovanni Battista de' Rossi]] born [[22 February]]]]
[[File:Crop of Portrait-Of-Lady-Jane-Douglas,-Full-Length,-As-A-Shepherdess-Seated-In-A-Landscape.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Lady Jane Douglas]] born [[17 March]]]]
[[File:Jan Vilímek - Prokop Diviš 2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Prokop Diviš]] born [[26 March]]]]
[[File:Steven Hoogendijk.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Steven Hoogendijk]] born [[1 April]]]]
[[File:Henry Baker (naturalist).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Henry Baker (naturalist)]] born [[8 May]]]]
[[File:Weliwita Sri Saranankara thera.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Weliwita Sri Saranankara Thero]] born [[19 June]]]]
[[File:Jean-Michel Chevotet.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jean-Michel Chevotet]] born [[11 July]]]]
[[File:Giacomo Ceruti - self-portait - Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan (ritoccato) (crop).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Giacomo Ceruti]] born [[13 October]]]]
[[File:Ange Jacques Gabriel door Jean-Baptiste Greuze Louvre.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Ange-Jacques Gabriel]] born [[23 October]]]]
[[File:Autoportrait Paul Troger 1728.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Paul Troger]] born [[30 October]]]]

=== January–March ===
* [[January 1]] – [[Leonardo VII Tocco]], Italian noble, the Prince of Montemiletto and the titular Prince of Achaea (d. [[1776]])
* [[January 3]] – [[Metastasio]], (b. Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi), Italian poet and opera librettist (d. [[1782]])
* [[January 7]] – [[Thomas Southwell, 2nd Baron Southwell]], Irish peer, politician and freemason (d. [[1766]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Auguste Louise of Württemberg-Oels]], Duchess of Württemberg-Oels by birth and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels-Barby (d. [[1739]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué]], Prussian Lieutenant general and General der Infanterie and a confidant of King Frederick the Great (d. [[1774]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix]], 18th-century French writer and playwright (d. [[1776]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Nicolas Sarrabat]], French mathematician and scientist (d. [[1739]])
* [[February 16]]
** [[Pierre Bouguer]], French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer (d. [[1758]])
** [[Johann Elias Ridinger]], German painter (d. [[1767]])
* [[February 19]] – [[William FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Cleveland]], English nobleman (d. [[1774]])
* [[February 20]]
** [[Gerard Arnout Hasselaer]], burgomaster and counsellor of the city of Amsterdam (d. [[1766]])
** [[Bernardo Tanucci]], Italian statesman (d. [[1783]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Giovanni Battista de' Rossi]], Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. [[1764]])
* [[February 23]] – [[Thomas Bladen]], colonial governor in North America and British MP (d. [[1780]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Sigismund von Schrattenbach]], Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg (d. [[1771]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Johannes Alberti]], Dutch theologian (d. [[1762]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Lady Jane Douglas]], Scottish noblewoman (d. [[1753]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Václav Prokop Diviš]], Czech priest, scientist and inventor (d. [[1765]])

=== April–June ===
* [[April 1]] – [[Steven Hoogendijk]], Rotterdam watch and instrument maker and physicist (d. [[1788]])
* [[April 2]] – [[Henry Edgar]], Scottish Episcopal minister, Bishop of Fife from 1762 to 1765 (d. [[1765]])
* [[April 5]] – [[Anne Hamilton, 2nd Countess of Ruglen]], Scottish noblewoman (d. [[1748]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Daniel Gerdes]], German Calvinist theologian and historian (d. [[1765]])
* [[April 28]] – [[John Phillipson]], British Navy administrator, commissioner, MP for over 20 years (d. [[1756]])
* [[May 1]] – [[Francesco Robba]], Italian sculptor (d. [[1757]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Henry Baker (naturalist)|Henry Baker]], British naturalist (d. [[1774]])
* [[May 10]]
** [[Cuthbert Ellison (British Army officer)|Cuthbert Ellison]], British Army officer and MP for Shaftesbury (d. [[1785]])
** [[François Parfaict]], 18th-century French theatre historian (d. [[1753]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Pierre Contant d'Ivry]], French architect and designer (d. [[1777]])
* [[May 17]]
** [[Gio Nicola Buhagiar]], Maltese painter (d. [[1752]])
** [[Sir John Major, 1st Baronet]], British merchant (d. [[1781]])
* [[May 22]] – [[Lord William Beauclerk]], British army officer and politician (d. [[1733]])
* [[May 24]] – [[John, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen]] (d. [[1780]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Henry Miles]], English Dissenting minister, scientific writer, Fellow of the Royal Society (d. [[1763]])
* [[June 15]] – [[George Browne (soldier)|George Browne]], Irish soldier of fortune in Russian service (d. [[1792]])
* [[June 19]]
** [[Aoki Konyō]], Confucian scholar (d. [[1769]])
** [[Weliwita Sri Saranankara Thero]], Last Sangharaja of Sri Lanka (d. [[1778]])
* [[June 22]] – [[Charles-Hugues Le Febvre de Saint-Marc]], 18th-century French playwright and homme de lettres (d. [[1769]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Lord Nassau Powlett]], English army officer and MP (d. [[1741]])

=== July–September ===
* [[July 8]] – [[Nicolò Maria Antonelli]], Italian Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church (d. [[1767]])
* [[July 11]]
** [[Jean-Michel Chevotet]], French architect (d. [[1772]])
** [[George Turnbull (theologian)|George Turnbull]], Scottish philosopher (d. [[1748]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis]], French mathematician (d. [[1759]])
* [[July 19]]
** [[Johann Jakob Bodmer]], Swiss author (d. [[1783]])
** [[John Clavering (died 1762)|John Clavering]], English MP and Groom of the Bedchamber at the Court of George II (d. [[1762]])
* [[July 24]] – [[František Jiránek]], Czech (Bohemian) Baroque composer (d. [[1778]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Samuel Klingenstierna]], Swedish mathematician and scientist (d. [[1765]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Louis Fornel]], Canadian merchant (d. [[1745]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Erik Pontoppidan]], Danish author (d. [[1764]])
* [[August 29]]
** [[Richard Pearsall]], English Congregationalist minister, friend of Philip Doddridge (d. [[1762]])
** [[Jacob Vernet]], prominent theologian in Geneva (d. [[1789]])
* [[September 6]] – [[Jean Thurel]], French soldier (d. [[1807]])
* [[September 8]]
** [[François Francoeur]], French composer and violinist (d. [[1787]])
** [[Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt]], princess of Hesse-Darmstadt and through her marriage a princess of Hesse-Kassel (d. [[1777]])
* [[September 14]] – [[Charles François de Cisternay du Fay]], French chemist and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi (d. [[1739]])
* [[September 15]] – [[Pier Francesco Guala]], Italian painter (d. [[1757]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Lewis Morris (speaker)|Lewis Morris]], colonial American judge (d. [[1762]])
* [[September 26]] – [[William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire]], British nobleman, Whig politician and MP (d. [[1755]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Joachim Christian von Tresckow]], Prussian Lieutenant General (d. [[1762]])

=== October–December ===
* [[October 6]] – [[François-Bernard Lépicié]], 18th-century French engraver (d. [[1755]])
* [[October 7]] – [[Henry Madin]], French composer at the Chapelle royale (d. [[1748]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Jean Paul Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac]], Marshal of France (d. [[1784]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Giacomo Ceruti]], Italian late Baroque painter (d. [[1767]])
* [[October 23]]
** [[Ange-Jacques Gabriel]], principal architect of King Louis XV of France (d. [[1782]])
** [[John Jortin]], English church historian (d. [[1770]])
* [[October 30]]
** [[Peter Thompson (antiquarian)|Peter Thompson]], English merchant (d. [[1770]])
** [[Paul Troger]], Austrian painter (d. [[1762]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Caleb Fleming]], English dissenting minister and Polemicist (d. [[1779]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Sir Alexander Lauder, 4th Baronet]] (d. [[1730]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Alberico Archinto]], Italian cardinal and papal diplomat (d. [[1758]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Maria Taylor Byrd]], colonial woman who managed her and her husband William Byrd II's Westover Plantation when he was absent (d. [[1771]])
* [[November 22]] – [[Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial]], Canadian-born colonial governor of French Canada in North America (d. [[1778]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Jacob Johann Köhler]], Estonian printer who published the first Estonian-language Bible in 1739 (d. [[1757]])
* [[November 24]] – [[Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry]], Scottish nobleman, extensive landowner, Privy Counsellor, Vice Admiral of Scotland (d. [[1778]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Charlotta Frölich]], Swedish agronomist (d. [[1770]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Oliver Legipont]], German Benedictine bibliographer (d. [[1758]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Anthony Mooyart]], acting Governor of Ceylon during the Dutch period in Ceylon (d. [[1767]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Mark Hiddesley]], Anglican churchman (d. [[1773]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Paul Fourdrinier]], English engraver (d. [[1758]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton]], powerful Jacobite politician (d. [[1731]])
* [[December 24]] – [[William Warburton]], English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (d. [[1779]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Jacobus Houbraken]], Dutch engraver and the son of the artist and biographer Arnold Houbraken (d. [[1780]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Filippo della Valle]], Italian late-Baroque or early Neoclassic sculptor (d. [[1768]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Vlaho Kabužić]], Ragusan nobleman and diplomat (d. [[1750]])
* ''date unknown'' 
**[[Bernard Forest de Bélidor]], French engineer (d. [[1761]])
**[[William Moraley]], English-American indentured servant and autobiographer, a primary source for life in the [[Province of Pennsylvania]] (d. [[1762]])
**[[Baal Shem Tov]], Polish rabbi and founder of the [[Hasidic movement]] of Judaism.

== Deaths ==
[[File:Moyse Charas - Portrait.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Moyse Charas]] died [[17 January]]]]
[[File:Catherine de Bar.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament]] died [[6 April]]]]
[[File:Jacob Sasportas.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas]] died [[15 April]]]]
[[File:Elizabeth Murray (1626–1698), by Peter Lely.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale]] died [[5 June]]]]
[[File:Raja Ravi Varma, Maharana Jai Singh.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jai Singh of Mewar]] died [[23 September]]]]
[[File:Louis de Buade, comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (1622-1698).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louis de Buade de Frontenac]] died [[28 November]]]]

=== January–March ===
* [[January 10]] – [[Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont]], French ecclesiastical historian (b. [[1637]])
* [[January 15]]
** [[Girolamo Borghese]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pienza (1668–1698) (b. [[1616]])
** [[Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington]], Anglo-Irish nobleman, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, Cavalier (b. [[1612]])
* [[January 17]] – [[Moyse Charas]], apothecary in France during the reign of Louis XIV (b. [[1619]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Giannicolò Conti]], Roman Catholic cardinal (b. [[1617]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Frederick Casimir Kettler]], [[Duke of Courland and Semigallia]] (b. [[1650]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] (b. [[1629]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Francis Bernard (physician)|Francis Bernard]], English apothecary (b. [[1628]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Sir James Rushout, 1st Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1644]])
* [[February 21]] – [[Rowland Thomas]], English colonist of Springfield, Massachusetts, selectman, stonemason, surveyor, and proprietor (b. [[1621]])
* [[March 2]] – [[Jacques Quétif]], French Dominican and noted bibliographer (b. [[1618]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester]], English politician (b. [[1619]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Claes Rålamb]], Swedish statesman (b. [[1622]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Leonora Christina Ulfeldt]], Danish countess (b. [[1621]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lund |first1=Emil Ferdinand Svitzer |title=Danske malede portraetter: en beskrivende katalog |volume=2 |date=1897 |publisher=Gyldendal |location=Copenhagen |pages=193–203 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAkwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA193 |chapter=Leonora Christina, Grevinde Ulfeld |language=da}}</ref>

=== April–June ===
* [[April 6]] – [[Mechtilde of the Blessed Sacrament]], French nun (b. [[1614]])
* [[April 9]] – [[Charles d'Albert d'Ailly]], French diplomat (b. [[1625]])
* [[April 11]] – [[Charles Morton (educator)|Charles Morton]], Cornish nonconformist minister (b. [[1627]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas]], Rabbi, Kabbalist, anti-Shabbethaian (b. [[1610]])
* [[April 29]] – [[Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis]], First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. [[1655]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Minye Kyawhtin]], king of Toungoo dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) (b. [[1651]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Marie Champmeslé]], French actress (b. [[1642]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Vere Fane, 5th Earl of Westmorland]] (b. [[1678]])
* [[May 24]] – [[William Blundell of Crosby]], English Royalist landowner and topographer (b. [[1620]])
* [[June 5]]
** [[Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale]], influential British noblewoman (b. [[1626]])
** [[Domenico Minio]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caorle (1684–1698) (b. [[1628]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Gerrit Berckheyde]], Dutch Golden Age painter (b. [[1638]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Balthasar Bekker]], Dutch minister and author of philosophical and theological works (b. [[1634]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni]], Italian Catholic Cardinal and Cardinal-Nephew to Pope Clement X (b. [[1623]])
* [[June 30]] – [[Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven]], English Member of Parliament (b. [[1625]])

=== July–September ===
* [[July 11]] – [[Antonio Molinari (bishop)|Antonio Molinari]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lettere-Gragnano (1676–1698) (b. [[1626]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester]], English nobleman and politician (b. [[1660]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Johann Heinrich Heidegger]], Swiss theologian (b. [[1633]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Bartolomeo Gradenigo (bishop of Brescia)|Bartolomeo Gradenigo]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Brescia (1682–1698) (b. [[1636]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Francisco de Aguiar y Seijas]], Spanish cleric and bishop (b. [[1632]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Fleetwood Sheppard]], English poet (b. [[1634]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Miguel Jerónimo de Molina]], Spanish prelate and bishop (b. [[1638]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Jai Singh of Mewar]], Maharana of Mewar from 1680 to 1698 (b. [[1653]])

=== October–December ===
* [[October 11]] – [[William Molyneux]], Irish philosopher and writer (b. [[1656]])
* [[October 23]] – [[David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl]], German artist (b. [[1628]])
* [[October 24]] – [[Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle]], Canadian politician (b. [[1626]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Rasmus Bartholin]], Danish physician and grammarian (b. [[1625]])
* [[November 10]] – [[John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach]] (b. [[1665]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Johann, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg]], German nobleman (b. [[1662]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Giovanni Battista De Pace]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Capaccio (1684–1698) (b. [[1627]])
* [[November 23]] – [[César-Pierre Richelet]], French grammarian and lexicographer (b. [[1626]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Louis de Buade de Frontenac]], Governor of New France (b. [[1622]])
* [[December 1]] – [[Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein]], German prince (b. [[1636]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Andrea Guarneri]], Italian luthier (b. [[1626]])
* [[December 9]] – [[José González Blázquez]], Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Plasencia (1695–1698) (b. [[1630]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Simone Pignoni]], Italian painter (b. [[1611]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein]], German field marshal and the last count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (b. [[1622]])
* ''date unknown'' 
** [[Nicholas Barbon]], English economist (b. c. [[1640]])
** [[Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont]], Flemish alchemist (b. [[1614]])
* ''in fiction'' – [[Mircalla Karnstein]], Countess of Karnstein (b. [[1680]])

== References ==
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