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    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...
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  • Lawrence Washington (September 1659 – February 1698) was a colonial-era Virginia planter, slave holder, lawyer, soldier and politician. He also was the...
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  • The year 1698 in science and technology involved some significant events. Christiaan Huygens, in his posthumously published book Kosmotheoros, argues that...
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    acts with revisions to the Newfoundland's Constitution: Newfoundland Act 1698 – encourage and established trade (fisheries) links in the region; also called...
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  • 1690s BC (redirect from 1698 BC)
    Second Intermediate Period, in which the Hyksos invades Egypt, continues. 1698 BC- King Jie of China kills his minister Guan Longfeng according to Chinese...
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    River Trent Navigation Act 1698 Act of Parliament Parliament of England Long title An Act for makeing and keeping the River Trent in the River Trent in...
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    TC-1698 is a drug developed by Targacept which acts as a partial agonist for the α7 subtype of neural nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. It has neuroprotective...
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    Пётр Семёнович Салтыков, romanized: Pëtr Semënovič Saltykov; 21 December 1698 – 6 January 1773) was a Russian statesman and a military officer, promoted...
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    textile businesses, Parliament passed the Encouragement of Manufactures Act 1698, blocking the importation of cotton cloth. As there was no punishment for...
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    The Wool Act 1698 (or the Woolens Act) was an Act of the Parliament of England (10 Will. 3. c. 16), long titled An Act to prevent the Exportation of Wool...
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  • the year 1698 in the Kingdom of Scotland. Monarch – William II Secretary of State – John Murray, Earl of Tullibardine (until 31 March 1698), jointly...
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  • English antiquary (d. 1771) 1697: John Aubrey, English antiquary (b. 1626) 1698: Giovanni Giustino Ciampini, Italian archaeologist (b. 1633) "Ashmolean Museum:...
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    The English Militia was the principal military reserve force of the Kingdom of England. Militia units were repeatedly raised in England from the Anglo-Saxon...
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  • of Samothrace was an inconclusive battle which took place on 20 September 1698 near the island of Samothrace, during the Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War. It...
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  • Lieutenant-General Thomas Murray (June 1698 – 21 November 1764) was a British Army officer. He was the seventh son of Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore;...
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  • and Timeline of piracy. December 8 – William III of England issues his 1698 Act of Grace. January 30 – Captain William Kidd plunders the Quedagh Merchant...
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    but did not become formally established until the Billingsgate, etc. Act 1698 (10 Will. 3. c. 13). In 1850, the market, according to Horace Jones, "consisted...
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    India Company over trade commerce in the Bay of Bengal. Lasting from 1642 to 1698, the conflict has also been referred to by historians as the Dano-Bengali...
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  • The 1698 Ambato earthquake affected the interior of Ecuador on 20 June at 01:00 local time. The earthquake seismic magnitude (Muk) ranged from 7.2 to 7...
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    the Chinese Qing dynasty as formally commencing trade with the British in 1698. Within the first two decades of the 17th century, the Dutch East India Company...
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    Since 1698. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-78298-2 – via Google Books. Boss, Valentin, (2002) Newton and Russia : the early influence, 1698–1796...
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    girdled, which increased her breadth slightly, and underwent a rebuilding in 1698 – although this limited reconstruction did not involve taking her hull to...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1698. March – In his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English...
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  • Kosmos 1698 (Russian: Космос 1698 meaning Cosmos 1698) is a Soviet US-K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1985 as part of the Soviet...
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    the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard on 12 September 1698. She carried twenty-two 24-pounder guns and four (18-pounder) culverins on...
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    The siege of Jinji, (September 1690–8 January 1698), began when the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb appointed Zulfiqar Ali Khan as the Nawab of the Carnatic and...
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    History of Brunei (2002). A History of Brunei. Routledge. p. 131. ISBN 0-7007-1698-X. Archived from the original on 25 April 2024. Retrieved 14 October 2013...
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    Ya'rubid ruler of Oman, Saif I bin Sultan, from 13 March 1696 to 13 December 1698. The Yarubid dynasty had been expanding since the expulsion of the Portuguese...
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  • 1697 – Trinity Cathedral in Solikamsk, Russia (begun 1683), is completed. 1698 – Fortified town of Neuf-Brisach in Alsace, designed by Sébastien Le Prestre...
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    Lionel Wafer spent four years between 1680 and 1684 among the Gunas. In 1698, the Kingdom of Scotland tried to establish a settlement in a project known...
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