Today in History for Year 1698

Months in Year 1698: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 10 of 10

Jan 4th - Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire.
Jan 7th - Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Neth to England
Jul 2nd - Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine
Jul 14th - The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the Isthmus of Panama.
Aug 18th - Russian czar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam
Aug 19th - Russian czar Peter the Great begins term
Aug 25th - Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe
Sep 5th - Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards
Oct 11th - France, England & Netherlands signs 1st Extermination treaty
Nov 14th - Spanish king Carlos appoints grandson prince Jozef Ferdinand as heir

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 15 of 15

Jan 3rd - Pietro Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
Feb 16th - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (heliometer)
Mar 6th - John Alberti, Dutch theologist/philologist
Mar 10th - Gaetano Maria Schiassi, composer
Mar 26th - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)
Apr 5th - Georg Gottfried Wagner, composer
Jul 2nd - Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780)
Aug 27th - Baal Shem Tov, Founder of the Chasiddic movement {d. 1760)
Sep 28th - Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, France, mathematician/astronomer
Oct 7th - Henri Madin, composer
Oct 22nd - Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino, composer
Oct 23rd - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French court architect (Palace de la Concorde)
Nov 22nd - Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor (d. 1778)
Dec 24th - William Warburton, English Bishop of Gloucester (d. 1779)
Dec 25th - Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch engraver/illustrator

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 10 of 10

Jan 10th - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)
Mar 14th - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
Apr 29th - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
May 15th - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
Jun 11th - Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Enchanted World), dies at 64
Jul 16th - Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer, dies at 84
Jul 18th - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
Sep 2nd - Justus Vingboons, Architect, buried
Nov 4th - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
Nov 28th - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)