Editing 1698 (section)

=== January–March ===
* [[January 1]] – The [[Abenaki]] tribe and [[Province of Massachusetts Bay|Massachusetts]] colonists sign a treaty, ending the conflict in [[New England]].
* [[January 4]] – The [[Palace of Whitehall]] in [[London]], [[Kingdom of England|England]] is destroyed by fire.<ref>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p48</ref>
* [[January 23]] – [[George I of Great Britain|George Louis]] becomes [[Elector of Hanover]] upon the death of his father, [[Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover|Ernest Augustus]]. Because the widow of Ernest Augustus, George's mother [[Sophia of Hanover|Sophia]], was heiress presumptive as the cousin of [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]], and Anne's closest eligible heir, George will become King of Great Britain.
* [[January 30]] – [[William Kidd]], who initially seized foreign ships under authority as a privateer for the British Empire before becoming a [[pirate]], becomes an outlaw and uses his ship, the ''[[Adventure Galley]]'', to capture an Indian ship, the valuable ''[[Quedagh Merchant]]'', near [[India]]. 
* [[February 17]] – The [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] fort at [[Gingee]] falls after a siege of almost nine years by the [[Mughal Empire]] as King Rajaram escapes to safety. General [[Swarup Singh of Gingee|Swarup Singh Bundela]], who led the scaling of the fortress walls and Gingee's capture, is rewarded by Mughal Emperor [[Aurangzeb]] with command of the area.<ref>"Gingee I 1689—1698 Mughal—Maratha Wars", in ''Dictionary of Battles and Sieges'', ed. by Tony Jacques (Greenwood Press, 2007) p. 395</ref>
* [[March 8]] – The [[Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]], the oldest Anglican mission organization in the world, is founded by English clergyman [[Thomas Bray]] and four other people at [[Lincoln's Inn]] in [[London]], along with Sir [[Humphrey Mackworth]], [[Maynard Colchester]], [[Francis North, 2nd Baron Guilford|Lord Guilford]] and [[John Hooke (judge)|John Hooke]].
* March
** English Bishop [[Jeremy Collier]] publishes his pamphlet ''[[Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage|A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage]]'', accusing several contemporary playwrights of undermining public morality in their popular comedies by using profanity, blasphemy and indecency.
** [[Samuel Cranston]] becomes the governor of the [[Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]].