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1698| 1607–1700 | North America, UK [food and drink] | Fruits introduced to the North American colonies from England include apples, which adapt well in New England, and peaches, which grow easily in Virginia and other warmer regions. Native vegetables like pumpkins, squash, and beans are favoured over European vegetables. | | 1640–1700 | North America [literature and language] | Literacy rates in the colonies, particularly in New England, are high relative to those in the Old World. Shipton, New England has a 95% literacy rate; males in Virginia have a literacy rate between 54% and 60%. | | 1689–1724 | UK [horse-racing] | The Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arab, the horses from which all modern thoroughbreds are descended in the male line, are imported to England from the Middle East and north Africa. | | 1698 | UK [religion] | English churchman Doctor Thomas Bray founds The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) in London, England. | | 1698 | North America [architecture] | The Wren Building at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is completed. As its name suggests, its neoclassical style shows the strong influence of the English architect Christopher Wren. | | 11 October 1698 | Spain, France, UK, Holy Roman Empire [treaties] | Because of the bad health of Charles II of Spain, King Louis XIV of France and King William III of Britain sign the first Partition Treaty which aims to avoid war in Europe on Charles's death by dividing the Spanish kingdom between the three principal claimants. Prince Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I's grandson, is to receive Spain, the Spanish Netherlands, Sardinia, and Spanish America, Louis's son, Louis the Dauphin, is to gain Naples, Sicily, and the Tuscan ports, and Archduke Charles of Austria, second son of Emperor Leopold, is to receive Milan. |
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Aulnoy, Marie Catherine, Baronne d'Aulnoy
Ayres, John
Bekker, Balthazar
Berckheyde, Gerrit Adriaensz.
Böhm, Georg
Browne, George, Count de Browne
Calas, Jean
Collier, Jeremy
George I
Gorczycki, Grzegorz
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Molyneux, William
October 11
Orpheus Britannicus
Parks, William
Pistocchi, Francesco
Pradon, Nicolas
Sophia, Electress of Hanover
Warburton, William
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| Grandfather then said that the next remarkable event, while Sir William Phips remained in the chair, was the arrival at Boston of an English fleet in 1698. The peninsula of California was settled in 1698, by the Jesuits, who, certainly, as far as the natives were concerned, have generally proved the most beneficent of colonists. The growing indignation was voiced from time to time in published protests, of which the last, in 1698, was the over-zealous but powerful 'Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage' by Jeremy Collier, which carried the more weight because the author was not a Puritan but a High-Church bishop and partisan of the Stuarts. |