1698

This page relates to the year 1698 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

  • January 1st: Peace treaty enters the Abénaquis and the colonists of the Massachusetts.
  • July 4th: Project Darién. Departure of the first colonists Scot towards Panama.
  • August 20th: Payment for the trade and the navigation of the French colonies of America.
  • September: Establishment of the company of Santo Domingo.
  • November 29th: Louis-Hector de Callière Bonnevue becomes governor of the News-France.

  • the New Hampshire is separated from the Maine.
  • Brazil: The will bandeira of Pauliste Bartolomeu Bueno de Siqueira (1698-1699) discovers the first large gold bearing layers in the area located beyond the Serra da Mantiqueira. Others discovered follow. The area takes the name of Minas Gerais.
    • gold is either in nuggets, or out of powder and one extracts it by gold washing. 725 kilos of gold are extracted in 1699. The state takes 20% of the production ( quinto ) until in 1732.

Africa

  • the Portuguese give up the Karanga (small Monomotapa) after two centuries of presence.
  • Decline of the kingdom of Boutouo (Zimbabwe).
  • the Oman I take the strong Jesus with Mombasa with the Portuguese then extend little by little their domination on Zanzibar and the cities of the south of the coast of Zandj. The Portuguese are driven back on the Mozambique.

Asia

India

  • the Moghols take Genji after eight years of seat. Rajaram turns over to Satara which is besieged during two years.

Europe

  • the capital of the Valachie is transferred from Targoviste to Bucharest.
  • Victoire of the Poles with Podhajié on the Tartar .

Religion

  • 7 - October 19th: Synod of Alba Iulia. The Rumanian métropolite of Alba Iulia Atanasie Anghel and 38 archpriests make act of tender to the Roman pontiff. The Église Uniate of Transylvania was born, based on the traditional liturgy in Slavon.

Art & culture

See also: 1698 with the theater

  • Foundation of the Society for the Promotion off Christian Knowledge (SPCK), who endeavors to build schools of charity to London and in told thanks to the funds coming from the taxes for the poor ( Poor Laws ).
  • France: Law making the school obligatory for all the children, under catholic control.

  • Illustrates fairies , gallant Contes and new Contes of Madam d' Aulnoy.

  • Epistle X-XII of Boileau.
  • Relation on the Quiétisme of Bossuet.
  • Treated of the love of god of Malebranche.

Science & technology

  • History of the plants which are born around Paris from Joseph Pitton de Tournefort.
  • posthumous with $the Hague of Cosmotheoros, sive of terris coelestibus, earumque Publication ornatu, conjecturae , test of system of the world of Huygens.
  • Navigation of the rivers of Vauban which proposes the creation of Neuf-Brisach for the defense of the Alsace of the south.

Economy & company

  • Abolition of the Capitation in France.

  • Trade of the France with the China.
  • Foundation of the insurance company Lloyd' S, in England.
  • the Japan produced 55  000 tons of Copper and exports 48  of it; 000 by Nagasaki, which supports inflation.

Births in 1698

Death in 1698

Easter Day

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