What Happened In 1698 - Historical Events 1698

Historical Events for the Year 1698

2nd July » Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
5th September » In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.

3rd January » Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
13th January » Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
16th February » Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (d. 1758)
26th March » Prokop Diviš, Czech scientist, invented the lightning rod (d. 1765)
17th July » Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1759)
8th September » François Francoeur, French violinist and composer (d. 1787)
23rd October » Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect, designed the École Militaire (d. 1782)
22nd November » Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-American politician, 10th List of colonial governors of Louisiana or Governor of Louisiana (d. 1778)
24th December » William Warburton, English bishop (d. 1779)

10th January » Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)
14th March » Claes Rålamb, Swedish politician (b. 1622)
29th April » Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk (b. 1655)
15th May » Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
18th July » Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (b. 1633)
28th November » Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and politician, 3rd Governor General of New France (b. 1622)