1898

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Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1898

[edit] January - March

• 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 7 - Emile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse
• February 12 - Henry Lindfield dies in England, becoming the world's 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 266 men. 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 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, is created.
• March 27 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan passes away peacefully in Aligarh, Awadh.

[edit] April - June

• 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 2 - Association of thousands of Chinese scholars and Beijing citizens in front of the Capital Control Yuan asking for reform.
• May 7/9 - General Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris kills hundreds of demonstrators in Milan, Italy shooting on a rally; King of Italy Umberto I will be killed two years after to avenge this shooting.
• May 8 - The first games of the Italian Football League are played.
• May 28 - Secondo Pia takes the first photographs of the Shroud of Turin and discovers that the image on Shroud itself appears to be a photographic negative.

• 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.

[edit] July - September

• 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 12- Spanish-American War: Hostilities end between American and Spanish forces in Cuba.
• August 28- Caleb Bradham names his soft drink Pepsi-Cola.

• 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.

[edit] October - December

• October 1 - The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
• October 3 - The Battle of Sugar Point in Northern Minnesota. Between Ojibwe & U.S. government.
• October 6 - First meeting and founding of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, then called the Sinfonia Club, at the New England Conservatory in Boston.
• October 12 - Establishment of the first town council in Mateur.

• November 26 - A two-day blizzard known as the Portland Gale piles snow in Boston, MA and severely impacts the Massachusetts fishing industry and several coastal New England towns.

• December 9th - The first of the two Tsavo maneaters was shot by John Henry Patterson, the second was killed three weeks later, after 135 workers had been killed.
• December 10 - The Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish-American War is signed in Paris.
• December 26 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of a substance they call radium.

[edit] Undated

• Fashoda incident -- diplomatic dispute between France and the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• Joseph Sears School was founded in Kenilworth, Illinois.
• Wakita was founded in the Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma.
• Fork Union Military Academy is founded.

[edit] Births

[edit] January - June

• January 16 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
• January 21 - Ahmad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia (d. 1930)
• January 22 - Elazar Shach, Haredi Rabbi (d. 2001)
• January 23
  • Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
  • Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
• January 26 - Katarzyna Kobro, Russian sculptor (d.1951)
• February 1 - Leila Denmark, US-American pediatrician
• February 3 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
• February 10 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (d. 1956)
• February 11 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist (d. 1964)
• February 14 - Fritz Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)
• February 15 - Allen Woodring, American runner (d. 1982)
• February 18
  • Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and automobile manufacturer (d. 1988)
  • 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 4 - Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940)
• March 11 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)
• March 14 - Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985)
• March 31 - Hermann van Pels, German-Dutch father of Peter van Pels, housemate of Anne Frank (d. 1944)
• 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)
  • John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (d. 1972)
• May 3 - Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)
• May 5 - Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer (d. 1983)
• May 13
  • Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, King of Malaysia (d. 1960)
  • Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (d. 2007)
• May 15 - Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992)
• May 16 - Tamara de Lempicka, Art Deco painter (d. 1980)
• 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 6 - Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer and founder of The Royal Ballet, London (d. 2001)
• June 17
  • M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)
  • Henry Harry Patch , Last Tommy Atkins
• June 22 - Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)

[edit] July - 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)
  • George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (d. 1985)
• July 22
  • Stephen Vincent Benét, American writer (d. 1943)
  • Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
• July 28 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (d.1970)
• July 29 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• July 30 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
• August 15 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d. 1966)
• 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 29 - Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (d. 1976)
• September 30
  • Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933)
  • Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
• October 10
  • Lilly Daché, French milliner (d. 1989)
  • Marie Pierre Koenig, French general and politician (d. 1970)
• October 15 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (d. 1959)
• October 18 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian actress and singer (d. 1981)
• November 8 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
• November 12 - Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast, Olympic gold medalist and athlete (d. 1999)
• November 17 - Maurice Journeau, composer (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 2 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian World War I pilot (d. 1918)
• December 6 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, American photojournalist (d. 1995)
• December 19 - Zheng Zhenduo, Chinese author and translator (d. 1958)
• December 20 - Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
• December 24 - Baby Dodds, (d. 1959)
• date unknown - Mariya Klenova, Russian marine geologist (d. 1976)

See also Category: 1898 births.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January-June

• January 14 - Lewis Carroll, British writer, mathematician (b. 1832)
• January 16 - Charles Pelham Villiers longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
• January 18 - Henry George Lidell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. 1811)
• February 16 - Thomas Bracken, Author of the official national anthem of New Zealand - God Defend New Zealand (b.1843)
• 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)
• March 27 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian university founder (b. 1817)
• April 15 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
• April 18 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
• May 19 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)

[edit] July-December

• July 1 - Siegfried Marcus, Austrian automobile pioneer (b. 1831)
• July 5 - Richard Pankhurst
• July 12 - Louis-François Richer Laflèche, Roman Catholic Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Native American missionary (b. 1818)
• July 30 - Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (b. 1815)
• August 8 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• September 2 - Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1807)
• September 5 - Sarah Emma Edmundson, Canadian nurse and spy (b. 1841)
• September 9 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
• September 16 - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827)
• 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)
• December 24 - Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk (b. 1828)

See also Category: 1898 deaths.af:1898

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