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| 1697 |
| | | In the Treaty of Rijswijk, Spain cedes the western half of Hispaniola to France, which names its new colony Saint-Domingue | |
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| 1698 |
| | | A fleet from Oman evicts the Portuguese from Mombasa and Zanzibar | |
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| 1698 |
| | | Thomas Savery creates the first practical steam engine, designed to pump water out of mines | |
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| 1698 |
| | | A maker of harpsichords in Florence, Bartolomeo Cristofori, develops the piano ('soft') and forte ('loud') feature which leads to the piano | |
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| 1698 |
| | | Scotland makes a disastrous attempt to establish a colony in Darien, on the isthmus of Panama | |
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| 1698 |
| | | Peter the Great makes a symbolic gesture of reform in trimming his boyars' beards | |
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| 1698 |
| | | On the death of Elizabeth, Duchess of Lauderdale, Ham House is inherited by her Tollemache descendants who manage the estate for the next 250 years | |
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| 1699 |
| | | Grinling Gibbons begins work on carving decorative features and architectural mouldings in the King's Appartments at Hampton Court | |
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| 1699 |
| | | The tenth Sikh guru, Gobind Rai, commits his people to the five Ks, which become the outward signs of their group identity | |
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| 1699 |
| | | The Chestnut Avenue through Bushy Park is laid out for William III to a design by Sir Christopher Wren | |
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