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1710
you should consider giving up smoking

 

1709

Consider? That's an understatement.

 

1708 so just stop

 

1707

Whoever shouldn't have started in the first place, but yeah. Just stop.

 

1706
yeah, you really should

 

1705

Hehe... You got me, I confess!

 

1704
No, seriously. What's the deal with smoking on forums? That's just plain rude to the non-smoking part of society

 

1703

im lost

 

1702
Messed with my sig again, thanks to Fo®saken for pointing out broken links

 

1701

cool.

 

SEVENTEEN HUNDRED!

 

1699 ?

 

1698

[edit] Events of 1698

[edit] January - June
January 1 - The Abenaki people and the Massachusetts colonists signed a treaty ending the conflict in New England.
January 4 - Palace of Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire.
January 23 - George Louis (who would in 1714 become King George I of Great Britain) becomes Elector of Hanover.
June 19 - The volcano of Carguarazon erupts in the Andes and causes a rain of fish.

[edit] July - December
July 14 - Darien scheme: First Scottish settlers leave for an ill-fated colony in Panama.
August 25 - Peter the Great arrives back to Moscow: General Patrick Gordon has already crushed the streltsy rebellion, with 341 rebels sentenced to be decapitated. Tradition holds that tsar Peter decapitated some of them himself.
September 5 - In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards: all men except priests and peasants are required to pay a tax of one hundred rubles a year; commoners are required to pay one kopeck each.
November - Tani Jinzan, astronomer and calendar scholar, observes a fire destroy Tosa (now Kochi) in Japan at the same time as a Leonid meteor shower, taking it as evidence to reinforce belief in the "Theory of Areas".
November 16 - A congress begins in Sremski Karlovci to discuss a treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League.

[edit] Undated
Whigs sponsor Captain Kidd of New York as a privateer against French shipping.
Isaac Newton calculates the speed of sound.
Thomas Savery patents an early steam engine.
Humphrey Hody is appointed regius professor of Greek at Oxford.
Bucharest becomes capital of Wallachia (now part of Romania).
In Africa, Mombasa and Zanzibar are captured by Oman.

[edit] Births
1698 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1698
MDCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita 2451
Armenian calendar 1147
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Bahá'í calendar -146 – -145
Berber calendar 2648
Buddhist calendar 2242
Burmese calendar 1060
Chinese calendar 4334/4394-11-20
(?????????)
— to —
4335/4395-11-30
(?????????)
Coptic calendar 1414 – 1415
Ethiopian calendar 1690 – 1691
Hebrew calendar 5458 – 5459
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 1753 – 1754
- Shaka Samvat 1620 – 1621
- Kali Yuga 4799 – 4800
Holocene calendar 11698
Iranian calendar 1076 – 1077
Islamic calendar 1109 – 1110
Japanese calendar Genroku 11
(??11?)
- Imperial Year K?ki 2358
(??2358?)
Korean calendar 4031
Thai solar calendar 2241
v • d • e
January 13 - Metastasio, Italian poet (died 1782)
February - Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (died 1746)
March 26 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian (died 1765)
May 8 - Henry Baker, English naturalist (died 1774)
July 17 - Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French mathematician (died 1759)
July 19 - Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss author (died 1783)
September 26 - William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (died 1755)
December 24 - William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (died 1779)
date unknown - Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (died 1761)
See also Category: 1698 births.

[edit] Deaths
January 10 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (born 1637)
March 14 - Claes RÃ¥lamb, Swedish statesman (born 1622)
April 29 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (born 1655)
May 15 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (born 1642)
July 18 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (born 1633)
November 4 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and scientist (born 1625)
November 28 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (born 1622)
date unknown - Nicholas Barbon, English economist (born c.1640)
See also Category: 1698 deaths.

 

1697

That's really not necessary...

 

1696
smoking isn't either

 

1695 nor is a spechin

 

1694
nope, that IS

 

1693 no its not trust me you don't need it no matter how much You want it

 

1692
depends on what exactly do you mean

 

1691 you don't know what a spechin is???? Really?!?