1898

Years: 1895 1896 1897 - 1898 - 1899 1900 1901

Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1898 in art 1898 in film 1898 in literature 1898 in rail transport 1898 in music 1898 in science 1898 in sports List of state leaders in 1898 List of religious leaders in 1898

Contents

1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 September 1.9 October 1.10 December 2 Births 3 Deaths

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 United States Congress announces that a state of war has existed since April 21.

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 revenge this shooting.

June

• June 1 - The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
• June 12 - 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 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.

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 Lucchesi assassinates Empress Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary

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).

Births

• January 7 - Rudolf Fernau, actor (d. 1985)
• January 16 - Margaret Booth, film editor (d. 2002)
• January 21 - Ahmad Shah Qajar, last Persian Shah of the Qajar dynasty (d. 1930)
• January 23 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (d. 1948)
• February 3 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
• February 10 - Bertolt Brecht, German playwright, writer and poet (d. 1956)
• February 14 - Fritz Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)
• February 14 - George Steed, businessman, philanthropist (d. 1988)
• February 15 - Allen Woodring, American sprinter (d. 1982)
• February 18 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician (d. 1980)
• February 18 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian auto racer, manufacturer (d. 1988)
• February 24 - Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer (d. 1983)
• March 6 - Therese Giehse, actress (d. 1975)
• March 11 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)
• April 3 - George Jessel, American comedian (d. 1981)
• April 6 - Jeanne Hébuterne, French painter (d. 1920)
• April 26 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer (d. 1984)
• May 3 - Golda Meir - Israeli Prime Minister (d. 1978)
• May 15 - Arletty, French model, actress (d. 1992)
• May 17 - Alfred Joseph Casson painter (d. 1992)
• May 21 - Armand Hammer, American entrepreneur, art collector (d. 1990)
• May 23 - Scott O'Dell, author (d. 1989)
• May 31 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993)
• June 4 - Harry Crosby, American publisher, poet (d. 1929)
• July 6 - Hanns Eisler, German composer (d. 1962)
• June 17 - M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist (d. 1972)
• July 2 - Gen Paul, French artist (d. 1975)
• July 22 - Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
• 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 22 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
• September 26 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
• September 30 - Renee Adoree, French actress (d. 1933)
• September 30 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
• October 10 - Lilly Daché, French milliner (d. 1989)
• October 15 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d. 1959)
• November 8 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
• November 18 - Joris Ivens, Dutch director (d. 1989)
• November 21 - René Magritte, Belgian surrealist artist (d. 1967)
• November 29 - C. S. Lewis, British author (d. 1963)
• December 20 - Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
• December 24 - Baby Dodds, American jazz musician (d. 1959)
• Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, later Sultan of Selangor and 2nd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 1960)
• Berenice Abbot, American photographer

Deaths

• January 14 - Lewis Carroll, British writer, mathematician (b. 1932)
• 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, inventor (b. 1813)
• March 16 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
• April 15 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
• May 19 - William Ewart Gladstone, British prime minister {b. 1809)
• July 30 - Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (b. 1815)
• September 2 - Wilford Woodruff, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
• October 24 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)

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