1698
calendar year
1698 (MDCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1698th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 698th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 17th century, and the 9th year of the 1690s decade. As of the start of 1698, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
| Decades: | 1660s 1670s 1680s – 1690s – 1700s 1710s 1720s |
| Years: | 1695 1696 1697 – 1698 – 1699 1700 1701 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1698 MDCXCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2451 |
| Armenian calendar | 1147 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6448 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1619–1620 |
| Bengali calendar | 1105 |
| Berber calendar | 2648 |
| English Regnal year | 10 Will. 3 – 11 Will. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2242 |
| Burmese calendar | 1060 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7206–7207 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4394 or 4334 — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4395 or 4335 |
| Coptic calendar | 1414–1415 |
| Discordian calendar | 2864 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1690–1691 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5458–5459 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1754–1755 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1619–1620 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4798–4799 |
| Holocene calendar | 11698 |
| Igbo calendar | 698–699 |
| Iranian calendar | 1076–1077 |
| Islamic calendar | 1109–1110 |
| Japanese calendar | Genroku 11 (元禄１１年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1621–1622 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 4031 |
| Minguo calendar | 214 before ROC 民前214年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 230 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2240–2241 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1824 or 1443 or 671 — to — 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1825 or 1444 or 672 |
Events
change- January 4 – Palace of Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire.
- June 19 – Volcano of Carguarazon erupts in the Andes and causes a rain of fish
- August 25 – Peter the Great arrives back to Moscow – general Patrick Gordon has already crushed the streltsy rebellion – 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 and the commoners had to pay one kopek each
- Whigs sponsor Captain Kidd of New York as a privateer against French shipping
- Darien Scheme – First Scottish settlers leave for an ill-fated colony in Panama
- Isaac Newton calculates the speed of sound
- Tani Jinzan, astronomer and calendar scholar, observes a fire destroy Tosa (now Kochi) in Japan at the same time as a Leonid Meteor storm, taking it as evidence to reinforce belief in the "Theory of Areas".
- Thomas Savery patents an early steam engine.
- A congress begins in Sremski Karlovci to discuss a treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League.
- Humphrey Hody is appointed regius professor of Greek at Oxford.
- Bucharest becomes capital of Wallachia (now part of Romania).
- Mombasa and Zanzibar are captured by Oman.
- George Louis (who would in 1714 become King George I of Great Britain) becomes Elector of Hanover.