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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    India Company over trade commerce in the Bay of Bengal. Lasting from 1642 to 1698 (56 years). The conflict has also been referred to by historians as the Dano-Bengali...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Spanish Armada de la Guardia de la Carrera de las Indias. It was launched in 1698 and sank in battle off Barú Island, just south of Cartagena, Colombia, in...
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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 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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    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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  • 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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    The 1698 Treaty of The Hague, also known as the 1698 Treaty of Den Haag or First Partition Treaty was one of two attempts by France, Great Britain, and...
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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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  • 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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    (1665–1679). Ernest Augustus, 4th son of Duke George, Prince of Calenberg (1679–1698). He became Prince of Calenberg on the death of his brother John Frederick...
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    aerumnis clara was composed by the Austrian composer Johann Bernhard Staudt in 1698. Hosokawa Grazia is a lyric opera in three acts, the first written in Japanese...
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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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    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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    Westminster was the main residence of the English monarchs from 1530 until 1698, when most of its structures, with the notable exception of Inigo Jones's...
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  • Navy, built at East Cowes on the Isle of Wight, and launched on 24 November 1698. She was converted to serve as a hulk in 1731, and was sunk in 1763. Lavery...
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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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  • Events from the year 1698 in Ireland. Monarch: William III Early – William Molyneux publishes The Case of Ireland's being Bound by Acts of Parliament in...
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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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    May] 1714) was Electress of Hanover from 19 December 1692 until 23 January 1698 as the consort of Prince Elector Ernest Augustus. She was later the heiress...
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  • 1692 1693 1694 1695 1696 1697 1698 1699 1700 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705 1706 1707 1708 … In literature 1695 1696 1697 1698 1699 1700 1701 Art Archaeology...
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