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18th_century - '''19th_century''' - 20th_century
{{C19YearInTopic}} |} '''1898''' was a Common_year_starting_on_Saturday (see link for calendar). == Events == === January === * January_1 - New_York_City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The_Bronx, and Staten_Island. * January_13 - Emile_Zola's ''J'accuse'' exposes the Dreyfus_affair. === February === * February_7 - Emile_Zola is brought to trial for Libel for publishing ''J'Accuse'' * February_12 - Henry Lindfield, dies in England. Lindfield was the first fatality from an automobile accident. * February_15 - Spanish-American_War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana_Harbor, Cuba for then unknown reasons killing more than 260. This event helped lead the United_States to declare war on Spain. * February_23 - Emile_Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse" which was a letter accusing the French government of Anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Alfred_Dreyfus in jail. === March === * March_24 - Robert Allison of Port_Carbon,_Pennsylvania becomes the first person to buy an American-built Automobile when he buys a Winton_automobile that was advertised in ''Scientific_American''. * March_26 - The Sabi_Game_Reserve in South_Africa, the first officially designated Game_reserve === April === * April_22 - Spanish-American_War: The United_States_Navy begins a Blockade of Cuban ports and the USS_Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship. * April_25 - Spanish-American War: The United_States declares war on Spain; the U.S. Congress announces that a state of war has existed since April_21 (later backdating one more day to April_20). === May === * May_7 - General Bava-Beccaris killed 80 demonstrants in Milan, Italy shooting on a rally; King of Italy Umberto I will be killed two years after to avenge this shooting. === June === Image:Philippines_flag_original.png * June_1 - The Trans-Mississippi Exposition World's_fair opens in Omaha,_Nebraska. * June_12 - Philippine_Declaration_of_Independence: General Emilio_Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain. * June_13 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital. * June_17 - The Navy_Hospital_Corps is established. === July === * July_3 - Joshua_Slocum completes a 3-year solo Circumnavigation * July_7 - The United_States annexes the Hawaiian Islands. * July_17 - Spanish-American_War: Battle_of_Santiago_Bay - Troops under United_States General William_R._Shafter take the city of Santiago_de_Cuba from the Spanish. * July_25 - Spanish-American War: The United_States invasion of Puerto_Rico begins with a landing at Guánica_Bay. === August=== * August_28- Caleb Bradham starts to use for his soft drink the name Pepsi-Cola. === September === * September_2 - Battle_of_Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa_Abdullah_al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan. * September_10 - Luigi_Lucheni assassinates Empress Elizabeth_of_Austria-Hungary * September_21 - Empress_Dowager_Cixi of China engineered a Coup_d'etat and it marks the end of Hundred_Days'_Reform. Guangxu_Emperor was arrested. === October === * October_1 - The Vienna_University_of_Economics_and_Business_Administration is founded under the name ''k.u.k. Exportakademie''. === December === * December_10 - The Treaty of Peace ending the Spanish-American_War is signed in Paris. * December 26 ? Marie and Pierre_Curie discover Radium * Fashoda_incident -- diplomatic dispute between France and the United_Kingdom. * John Henry Patterson kills the man-eating Lions of Tsavo which were delaying the building of the Uganda_Railway as described in the book "The_Man-Eaters_of_Tsavo" * Exploits of Louis_de_Rougemont begin to appear in the ''Wide_World_Magazine'' * North_Petherton becomes the first town in England to install Acetylene lighting. * John_Jacob_Abel isolates Epinephrine (Adrenaline). * William_Ramsay and Morris_Travers discover Neon ==Births== ===January to March=== *January_16 - Margaret_Booth, American film editor (d. 2002) *January_21 - Ahmad_Shah_Qajar, Shah_of_Persia (d. 1930) *January_23 - Sergei_Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948) *January_23 - Jorge_Eliécer_Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948) *February_3 - Alvar_Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976) *February_10 - Bertolt_Brecht, German writer (d. 1956) *February_14 - Fritz_Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer (d. 1974) *February_15 - Allen_Woodring, American runner (d. 1982) *February_17 - Thomas_Coleman_Lowry, New_Zealand Cricket Captains (d. 1976) *February_18 - Enzo_Ferrari, Italian race car driver and automobile manufacturer (d. 1988) *February_18 - Luis_Muñoz_Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (d. 1980) *February_24 - Kurt_Tank, German aeronautical engineer (d. 1983) *February_28 - Hugh_O'Flaherty, Irish Catholic priest (d. 1963) *March_11 - Dorothy_Gish, American actress (d. 1968) ===April to June=== *April_1 - William_James_Sidis, American mathematician (d. 1944) *April_3 - George Jessel, American comedian (d. 1981) *April_4 - Agnes_Ayres, American actress (d. 1940) *April_6 - Jeanne_Hébuterne, French painter (d. 1920) *April_26 - Vicente_Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) *April_26 - John_Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (d. 1972) *May_3 - Golda_Meir, Prime_Minister_of_Israel (d. 1978) *May_15 - Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992) *May_17 - Alfred_Joseph_Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992) *May_21 - Armand_Hammer, American entrepreneur and art collector (d. 1990) *May_23 - Scott_O'Dell, American author (d. 1989) *May_31 - Dr. Norman_Vincent_Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993) *June_4 - Harry_Crosby, American publisher and poet (d. 1929) *June_5 - Federico_García_Lorca, Spanish poet (d. 1936) *June_17 - M._C._Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972) *June_22 - Erich_Maria_Remarque, German writer (d. 1970) ===July to September=== *July_2 - Gen_Paul, French artist (d. 1975) *July_3 - Donald_Healey, English motor engineer and race car driver (d. 1988) *July_6 - Hanns_Eisler, German composer (d. 1962) *July_17 - Berenice_Abbott, American photographer (d. 1991) *July_22 - Stephen_Vincent_Benet, American writer (d. 1943) *July_22 - Alexander_Calder, American artist (d. 1976) *July_29 - Isidor_Isaac_Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) *July_30 - Henry_Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986) *August_26 - Peggy_Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979) *August_29 - Preston_Sturges, American director and writer (d. 1959) *September_13 - Roger_Désormière, French conductor (d. 1963) *September_22 - Katherine_Alexander, American actress (d. 1981) *September_24 - Howard_Walter_Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (d. 1968) *September_25 - Robert_Brackman American artist (d. 1980) *September_26 - George_Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937) *September_30 - Renée_Adorée, French actress (d. 1933) *September_30 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977) ===October to December=== *October_10 - Lilly_Daché, French milliner (d. 1989) *October_10 - Marie_Pierre_Koenig, French general and politician (d. 1970) *October_15 - Boughera_El_Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d. 1959) *October_25 - Klaus_Baudelaire, brother to Violet Baudelaire (d. 1914) *November_8 - Marie_Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937) *November_12 - Leon_Štukelj, Slovene gymnast, Olympic gold medalist and athlete (d. 1999) *November_18 - Joris_Ivens, Dutch director (d. 1989) *November_19 - Arthur_R._von_Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003) *November_21 - René_Magritte, Belgian artist (d. 1967) *November_26 - Karl_Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) *November_29 - C._S._Lewis, British author (d. 1963) *November_30 - Firpo_Marberry, baseball pitcher (d. 1976) *December_19 - Zheng_Zhenduo, Chinese author,translator (d. 1958) *December_20 - Irene_Dunne, American actress (d. 1990) *December_24 - Baby_Dodds, American jazz musician (d. 1959) ===Unknown dates=== *Hisamuddin_Alam_Shah_ibni_Almarhum_Sultan_Alaeddin_Sulaiman_Shah, King of Malaysia (d. 1960) ==Deaths== *January_14 - Lewis_Carroll, British writer, mathematician (b. 1832) *January_18 - Henry George Lidell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. 1811) *March_1 - George_Bruce_Malleson, Indian officer and author (b. 1825) *March_15 - Henry_Bessemer, British engineer and inventor (b. 1813) *March_16 - Aubrey_Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872) *March_18 - Matilda_Joslyn_Gage, American feminist (b. 1826) *April_15 - Kepa_Te_Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader *April_18 - Gustave_Moreau, French painter (b. 1826) *May_19 - William_Ewart_Gladstone, British prime minister {b. 1809) *July_1 - Siegfried_Marcus, Austrian automobile pioneer (b. 1831) *July_30 - Otto_von_Bismarck, German statesman (b. 1815) *August_8 - Eugène_Boudin, French painter (b. 1824) *September_2 - Wilford_Woodruff, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807) *September_9 - Stéphane_Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842) *September_20 - Theodor_Fontane, German writer (b. 1819) *September_28 - Tan_Sitong, Chinese revolutionary (executed) (b. 1865) *October_24 - Pierre_Puvis_de_Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824) *November_2 - George_Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826) Category:1898 Af:1898 Ar:1898 Ast:1898 Bg:1898 Be:1898 Bs:1898 Ca:1898 Cv:1898 Cs:1898 Cy:1898 Da:1898 De:1898 Et:1898 El:1898 Es:1898 Eo:1898 Eu:1898 Fo:1898 Fr:1898 Fy:1898 Gl:1898 Ko:1898년 Hr:1898 Io:1898 Id:1898 Ia:1898 Is:1898 It:1898 He:1898 Ka:1898 Csb:1898 La:1898 Lt:1898 Lb:1898 Hu:1898 Mk:1898 Nl:1898 No:1898 Nn:1898 Os:1898 Pl:1898 Pt:1898 Ro:1898 Ru:1898 Sq:1898 Scn:1898 Simple:1898 Sk:1898 Sl:1898 Sr:1898 Fi:1898 Sv:1898 Tl:1898 Tt:1898 Th:พ.ศ._2441 Tr:1898 Uk:1898 Wa:1898 Zh:1898年
1895 1896 1897 - 1898 - 1899 1900 1901 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Decades:'''
1860s 1870s 1880s - '''1890s''' - 1900s 1910s 1920s |- | align="center" | '''Centuries:'''
18th_century - '''19th_century''' - 20th_century
{{C19YearInTopic}} |} '''1898''' was a Common_year_starting_on_Saturday (see link for calendar). == Events == === January === * January_1 - New_York_City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The_Bronx, and Staten_Island. * January_13 - Emile_Zola's ''J'accuse'' exposes the Dreyfus_affair. === February === * February_7 - Emile_Zola is brought to trial for Libel for publishing ''J'Accuse'' * February_12 - Henry Lindfield, dies in England. Lindfield was the first fatality from an automobile accident. * February_15 - Spanish-American_War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana_Harbor, Cuba for then unknown reasons killing more than 260. This event helped lead the United_States to declare war on Spain. * February_23 - Emile_Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse" which was a letter accusing the French government of Anti-Semitism and wrongfully placing Alfred_Dreyfus in jail. === March === * March_24 - Robert Allison of Port_Carbon,_Pennsylvania becomes the first person to buy an American-built Automobile when he buys a Winton_automobile that was advertised in ''Scientific_American''. * March_26 - The Sabi_Game_Reserve in South_Africa, the first officially designated Game_reserve === April === * April_22 - Spanish-American_War: The United_States_Navy begins a Blockade of Cuban ports and the USS_Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship. * April_25 - Spanish-American War: The United_States declares war on Spain; the U.S. Congress announces that a state of war has existed since April_21 (later backdating one more day to April_20). === May === * May_7 - General Bava-Beccaris killed 80 demonstrants in Milan, Italy shooting on a rally; King of Italy Umberto I will be killed two years after to avenge this shooting. === June === Image:Philippines_flag_original.png * June_1 - The Trans-Mississippi Exposition World's_fair opens in Omaha,_Nebraska. * June_12 - Philippine_Declaration_of_Independence: General Emilio_Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain. * June_13 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital. * June_17 - The Navy_Hospital_Corps is established. === July === * July_3 - Joshua_Slocum completes a 3-year solo Circumnavigation * July_7 - The United_States annexes the Hawaiian Islands. * July_17 - Spanish-American_War: Battle_of_Santiago_Bay - Troops under United_States General William_R._Shafter take the city of Santiago_de_Cuba from the Spanish. * July_25 - Spanish-American War: The United_States invasion of Puerto_Rico begins with a landing at Guánica_Bay. === August=== * August_28- Caleb Bradham starts to use for his soft drink the name Pepsi-Cola. === September === * September_2 - Battle_of_Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa_Abdullah_al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan. * September_10 - Luigi_Lucheni assassinates Empress Elizabeth_of_Austria-Hungary * September_21 - Empress_Dowager_Cixi of China engineered a Coup_d'etat and it marks the end of Hundred_Days'_Reform. Guangxu_Emperor was arrested. === October === * October_1 - The Vienna_University_of_Economics_and_Business_Administration is founded under the name ''k.u.k. Exportakademie''. === December === * December_10 - The Treaty of Peace ending the Spanish-American_War is signed in Paris. * December 26 ? Marie and Pierre_Curie discover Radium * Fashoda_incident -- diplomatic dispute between France and the United_Kingdom. * John Henry Patterson kills the man-eating Lions of Tsavo which were delaying the building of the Uganda_Railway as described in the book "The_Man-Eaters_of_Tsavo" * Exploits of Louis_de_Rougemont begin to appear in the ''Wide_World_Magazine'' * North_Petherton becomes the first town in England to install Acetylene lighting. * John_Jacob_Abel isolates Epinephrine (Adrenaline). * William_Ramsay and Morris_Travers discover Neon ==Births== ===January to March=== *January_16 - Margaret_Booth, American film editor (d. 2002) *January_21 - Ahmad_Shah_Qajar, Shah_of_Persia (d. 1930) *January_23 - Sergei_Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948) *January_23 - Jorge_Eliécer_Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948) *February_3 - Alvar_Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976) *February_10 - Bertolt_Brecht, German writer (d. 1956) *February_14 - Fritz_Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer (d. 1974) *February_15 - Allen_Woodring, American runner (d. 1982) *February_17 - Thomas_Coleman_Lowry, New_Zealand Cricket Captains (d. 1976) *February_18 - Enzo_Ferrari, Italian race car driver and automobile manufacturer (d. 1988) *February_18 - Luis_Muñoz_Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (d. 1980) *February_24 - Kurt_Tank, German aeronautical engineer (d. 1983) *February_28 - Hugh_O'Flaherty, Irish Catholic priest (d. 1963) *March_11 - Dorothy_Gish, American actress (d. 1968) ===April to June=== *April_1 - William_James_Sidis, American mathematician (d. 1944) *April_3 - George Jessel, American comedian (d. 1981) *April_4 - Agnes_Ayres, American actress (d. 1940) *April_6 - Jeanne_Hébuterne, French painter (d. 1920) *April_26 - Vicente_Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) *April_26 - John_Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (d. 1972) *May_3 - Golda_Meir, Prime_Minister_of_Israel (d. 1978) *May_15 - Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992) *May_17 - Alfred_Joseph_Casson, Canadian painter (d. 1992) *May_21 - Armand_Hammer, American entrepreneur and art collector (d. 1990) *May_23 - Scott_O'Dell, American author (d. 1989) *May_31 - Dr. Norman_Vincent_Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993) *June_4 - Harry_Crosby, American publisher and poet (d. 1929) *June_5 - Federico_García_Lorca, Spanish poet (d. 1936) *June_17 - M._C._Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972) *June_22 - Erich_Maria_Remarque, German writer (d. 1970) ===July to September=== *July_2 - Gen_Paul, French artist (d. 1975) *July_3 - Donald_Healey, English motor engineer and race car driver (d. 1988) *July_6 - Hanns_Eisler, German composer (d. 1962) *July_17 - Berenice_Abbott, American photographer (d. 1991) *July_22 - Stephen_Vincent_Benet, American writer (d. 1943) *July_22 - Alexander_Calder, American artist (d. 1976) *July_29 - Isidor_Isaac_Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) *July_30 - Henry_Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986) *August_26 - Peggy_Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979) *August_29 - Preston_Sturges, American director and writer (d. 1959) *September_13 - Roger_Désormière, French conductor (d. 1963) *September_22 - Katherine_Alexander, American actress (d. 1981) *September_24 - Howard_Walter_Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (d. 1968) *September_25 - Robert_Brackman American artist (d. 1980) *September_26 - George_Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937) *September_30 - Renée_Adorée, French actress (d. 1933) *September_30 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977) ===October to December=== *October_10 - Lilly_Daché, French milliner (d. 1989) *October_10 - Marie_Pierre_Koenig, French general and politician (d. 1970) *October_15 - Boughera_El_Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d. 1959) *October_25 - Klaus_Baudelaire, brother to Violet Baudelaire (d. 1914) *November_8 - Marie_Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937) *November_12 - Leon_Štukelj, Slovene gymnast, Olympic gold medalist and athlete (d. 1999) *November_18 - Joris_Ivens, Dutch director (d. 1989) *November_19 - Arthur_R._von_Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003) *November_21 - René_Magritte, Belgian artist (d. 1967) *November_26 - Karl_Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) *November_29 - C._S._Lewis, British author (d. 1963) *November_30 - Firpo_Marberry, baseball pitcher (d. 1976) *December_19 - Zheng_Zhenduo, Chinese author,translator (d. 1958) *December_20 - Irene_Dunne, American actress (d. 1990) *December_24 - Baby_Dodds, American jazz musician (d. 1959) ===Unknown dates=== *Hisamuddin_Alam_Shah_ibni_Almarhum_Sultan_Alaeddin_Sulaiman_Shah, King of Malaysia (d. 1960) ==Deaths== *January_14 - Lewis_Carroll, British writer, mathematician (b. 1832) *January_18 - Henry George Lidell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. 1811) *March_1 - George_Bruce_Malleson, Indian officer and author (b. 1825) *March_15 - Henry_Bessemer, British engineer and inventor (b. 1813) *March_16 - Aubrey_Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872) *March_18 - Matilda_Joslyn_Gage, American feminist (b. 1826) *April_15 - Kepa_Te_Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader *April_18 - Gustave_Moreau, French painter (b. 1826) *May_19 - William_Ewart_Gladstone, British prime minister {b. 1809) *July_1 - Siegfried_Marcus, Austrian automobile pioneer (b. 1831) *July_30 - Otto_von_Bismarck, German statesman (b. 1815) *August_8 - Eugène_Boudin, French painter (b. 1824) *September_2 - Wilford_Woodruff, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807) *September_9 - Stéphane_Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842) *September_20 - Theodor_Fontane, German writer (b. 1819) *September_28 - Tan_Sitong, Chinese revolutionary (executed) (b. 1865) *October_24 - Pierre_Puvis_de_Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824) *November_2 - George_Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826) Category:1898 Af:1898 Ar:1898 Ast:1898 Bg:1898 Be:1898 Bs:1898 Ca:1898 Cv:1898 Cs:1898 Cy:1898 Da:1898 De:1898 Et:1898 El:1898 Es:1898 Eo:1898 Eu:1898 Fo:1898 Fr:1898 Fy:1898 Gl:1898 Ko:1898년 Hr:1898 Io:1898 Id:1898 Ia:1898 Is:1898 It:1898 He:1898 Ka:1898 Csb:1898 La:1898 Lt:1898 Lb:1898 Hu:1898 Mk:1898 Nl:1898 No:1898 Nn:1898 Os:1898 Pl:1898 Pt:1898 Ro:1898 Ru:1898 Sq:1898 Scn:1898 Simple:1898 Sk:1898 Sl:1898 Sr:1898 Fi:1898 Sv:1898 Tl:1898 Tt:1898 Th:พ.ศ._2441 Tr:1898 Uk:1898 Wa:1898 Zh:1898年