1698 in England
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Events from the year 1698 which occurred in the Kingdom of England.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - William III of England
[edit] Events
- January - Czar Peter I of Russia visits England where he stays for four months studying the theory of shipbuilding.[1]
- 4 January - The Palace of Whitehall is destroyed by fire.[2]
- July to August - General election results in victory for the New Country Tories.[3]
- 2 July - Thomas Savery patents a steam engine capable of pumping water from mines.[4]
- 11 October - Treaty of Den Haag signed between France, England and Holland.[5]
[edit] Undated
- Reverend Thomas Bray founds the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.[3]
[edit] Births
- 8 May - Henry Baker, naturalist (died 1774)
- 26 September - William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (died 1755)
- 24 December - William Warburton, critic and Bishop of Gloucester (died 1779)
[edit] Deaths
- 24 January - William Holder, music theorist (born 1616)
- 29 April - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (born 1655)
[edit] Unknown dates
- Nicholas Barbon, economist (born c.1640)
[edit] References
- ^ January 28th, Chambers' Book of Days. Retrieved on 2007-12-28.
- ^ Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 287. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 200-201. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "1698." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006. eNotes.com. 2006. 26 May, 2007 <http://history.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1698/energy>
- ^ William L. R. Cates (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
