1698

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

1698 in other calendars

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	མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 1824 or 1443 or 671     — to — ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Earth-Tiger) 1825 or 1444 or 672

Events

• 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.