1898

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1895 1896 1897 - 1898 - 1899 1900 1901 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 13 - Emile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.\n* February 7 - Emile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse\n* February 12 - Henry Lindfield, dies in England. Lindfield was the first fatality from an automobile accident.\n* 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.\n* 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.\n* 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.\n* March 26 - The Sabi Game Reserve in South Africa, the first officially designated game reserve\n* April 22 - Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.\n* 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.\n* 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.\n* June 1 - The Trans-Mississippi Exposition world's fair opens in Omaha, Nebraska.\n* June 12 - General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.\n* June 13 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.\n* June 17 - The Navy Hospital Corps is established.\n* July 7 - The United States annexes the Hawaiian Islands.\n* 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.\n* July 25 - Spanish-American War: The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with a landing at Guánica Bay.\n* 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.\n* September 10 – Luigi Liccheri assassinates Queen Elizabeth of Austria\n* December 10 - The Treaty of Peace ending the Spanish-American War is signed in Paris.\n* December 26 – Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium \n* Fashoda incident -- diplomatic dispute between France and the United Kingdom.\n* 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"\n* Exploits of Louis de Rougemont begin to appear in the Wide World Magazine

Births

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

Deaths

\n* January 14 - Lewis Carroll, British writer, mathematician\n*January 18 - Henry George Lidell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford.\n* March 15 - Henry Bessemer, British Engineer inventor of the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel.\n* March 16 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist\n* April 15 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader\n* May 19 - William Ewart Gladstone, British prime minister\n* July 30 - Otto von Bismarck - German Statesman\n* October 24 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n