Events
DateEvent
January 22 1898 Alexander Abramsky Was Born
1898 Nikolay Afanas'yev Died
1898 Fermín María Álvarez Died
1898 Yuri Karlovich Arnold Died
1898 Salvador Bacarisse Was Born
1898 Ernst Bacon Was Born
1898 Juan Bautista Plaza Was Born
1898 Franz Behr Died
1898 Emmanuel Bondeville Was Born
1898 George Frederick Bristow Died
January 21 1898 Avery Claflin Was Born
1898 Hanns Eisler Was Born
1898 Noel Gay Was Born
1898 George Gershwin Was Born
1898 Louis Théodore Gouvy Died
1898 Roy Harris Was Born
1898 Lev Knipper Was Born
1898 Marcel Mihalovici Was Born
1898 Vittorio Rieti Was Born
1898 Paul de Schlözer Died
1898 Julius Schulhoff Died
1898 Viktor Ullmann Was Born
1898 Carl Zeller Died
January 01 1898 New York Annexes Land Establishing Five Boroughs
January 12 1898 Ito Hirobumi Becomes Japan's Prime Minister
January 13 1898 Zola Exposes Dreyfus Affair
February 07 1898 Emile Zola On Trial For J'accuse
February 15 1898 USS Battleship Maine Explodes; Leads To War
February 23 1898 Zola Imprisioned For Writing 'J'accuse'
February 27 1898 King George I Survives Assassination Attempt
April 21 1898 April 25 US Begins Cuban Blockade And War
April 22 1898 USS Nashville Captures Spanish Merchant Ship
April 25 1898 Spanish-American War: U.S. Declares War
May 01 1898 US Navy Beat Spanish Fleet During Spanish-American War
May 08 1898 Italian Football League First Plays
June 10 1898 U.S. Marines Arrive In Cuba
June 11 1898 US Sails For Cuba In Spanish-American War
June 11 1898 Institutional Reform Attempted In China
June 12 1898 Aguinaldo Declares Philippine's Independence From Spain
June 13 1898 Yukon Territory Formed, Dawson Capital
June 17 1898 Navy Hospital Corps Established In US
June 21 1898 The United States Captures Guam From Spain
June 22 1898 U.S. Marines Invade Cuba
June 27 1898 Slocum: First Solo Globe Circumnavigation
July 01 1898 San Juan Hill Is Fought In Cuba
July 03 1898 Spanish Fleet Destroyed By U.S. In Cuba
July 07 1898 President McKinley Signs Newlands Resolution, Annexing Hawaii
July 08 1898 Mob Boss Soapy Smith Killed In Shootout
July 25 1898 U.S. Invades Puerto Rico
August 11 1898 American Troop Occupied Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
August 12 1898 Armistice Ends The Spanish-American War
August 12 1898 The US Annexes Hawaii
August 13 1898 Spanish, American Forces In Mock Battle
August 13 1898 Carl Will Discovers First Near-Earth Asteroid
August 23 1898 Southern Cross Expedition Departs From London
August 24 1898 Russia Presents First Hague Peace Conference
August 25 1898 Massacre In Heraklion Ethnic Violence
August 28 1898 Bradham Invents Carbonated 'Pepsi-Cola'
August 29 1898 The Goodyear Tire Company Is Founded
September 02 1898 Britsh Dominance Won At Omdurman, Sudan
September 10 1898 Austrian Empress Assassinated
September 13 1898 Goodwin Patents Celluloid Photographic Film
September 18 1898 Fashoda Incident: Lord Kitchener's Ships Reach Sudan
September 21 1898 China: Empress Cixi Takes Power
October 01 1898 Vienna University Founded, K.u.k. Exportakademie
October 14 1898 Ship Impacts Manacles Near Cornwall, Killing 106
October 18 1898 U.S. Takes Possession Of Puerto Rico
November 02 1898 Campbell Leads First Cheerleading Squad At University Of Minnesota
November 03 1898 France Withdraws Troops From Fashoda
November 08 1898 Coup In Wilmington, North Carolina
November 10 1898 Only Government Overthrown During Wilmington Insurrection Of 1898
December 03 1898 Duquesne Country And Athletic Club Defeated
December 10 1898 Treaty Of Paris Officially Ends Spanish-American War
December 18 1898 De Chasseloup-Laubat Sets Electric Car Speed Record
December 26 1898 Curies Announce Radium Discovery