Editing 1698 (section)

=== October–December ===
* [[October 11]] – The [[Treaty of The Hague (1698)|Treaty of the Hague]] is signed between the [[Dutch Republic]], England and France.<ref name="Pocket Date Book">{{cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|url=https://archive.org/details/pocketdatebooko00categoog|publisher=Chapman and Hall|first=William L. R.|last=Cates|author-link=William Leist Readwin Cates|year=1863}}</ref>
* [[October 24]] – Iberville and [[Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville|Bienville]] sail from [[Brest, France|Brest]] to the [[Gulf of Mexico]], to defend the southern borders of [[New France]].<ref name="CB">{{cite DCB|title=Le Moyne de Bienville, Jean-Baptiste |first=C. E. |last=O’Neill |volume=3 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/le_moyne_de_bienville_jean_baptiste_3E.html}}</ref>
* [[November 2]] – The [[Darien scheme]] Scottish settlers land in Panama and establish their ill-fated colony; 80% of them would die within the first year.
* [[November 14]]
** The first [[Eddystone Lighthouse]], built off [[Plymouth]], England, is illuminated.
** The Spanish king Carlos names his grandson Jozef Ferdinand as his heir.
* [[November 16]] – A congress begins in [[Sremski Karlovci]] to discuss a treaty between the [[Ottoman Empire]] and the [[Great Turkish War|Holy League]].
* [[November]] – Tani Jinzan, [[astronomer]] and [[calendar]] scholar, observes a fire destroy Tosa (now [[Kōchi Prefecture|Kōchi]]) in Japan at the same time as a [[Leonids|Leonid]] [[meteor shower]], taking it as evidence to reinforce belief in the "Theory of Areas".
* [[December 8]] – King [[William III of England]] issues a proclamation of "our most gracious pardon unto all such pirates in the East Indies, viz., all eastward of the [[Cape of Good Hope]], who shall surrender themselves for piracies or robberies committed by them upon sea or land" before April 30, 1699, to Captain [[Thomas Warren (Royal Navy officer)|Thomas Warren]], but specifically "excepting [[Henry Every]], alias Bridgman, and [[William Kidd]].<ref>Arthur M. Harris, "Pirate Tales from the Law" (Little, Brown and Company, 1923) pp. 47-48</ref>
* [[December 9]] – [[Francis Nicholson]] becomes the new [[List of colonial governors of Virginia|British colonial governor of Virginia]], succeeding Sir [[Edmund Andros]].<ref>R. A. Brock, ''Virginia and Virginians: Eminent Virginians'' (Clearfield Press, 1888) p.10</ref> 
* [[December 12]] – [[Mombasa]] (referred to at the time as Fort Jesus, and now part of [[Kenya]]) falls under control of the Emirate of [[Oman]], with Imam Sa'if ibn Sultan as the first Omani Governor.