1898

The first gramaphone record is released by Gramaphone and Typewriter Ltd., Belagatchia. Bhai Vir Singh's Panjabi novel is published.

Two Italians, Colorello and Cornaglia organise films shows in tents at Azad Maidan, Bombay. Hiralal Sen starts making films. Amritlal Bose screens a packet of 'actualities' and 'fakes' at the Star Theatre, Calcutta, with plays and variety entertainments. The multinational Warwick Trading Co. commissions Panorama of Calcutta newsreel. Other films include Poona Races and Train Arriving at Churchgate station ( by Andersonoscograph).

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1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian 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).

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1898 world map

May

• May 2 - Association of thousands of Chinese scholars and Beijing citizens in front of the Capital Control Yuan asking for reform.
• 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.
• May 8 - The first games of the Italian Football League are played.

June

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This is a depiction of the original flag of the Philippines as it was conceived by Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. The blue was of a lighter shade than the currently mandated royal blue, the sun had many more rays although it still had eight points, and it has a mythical face.

• 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 12- Spanish-American War: Hostilities end between American and Spanish forces in Cuba.
• August 28- Caleb Bradham names his soft drink 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.
• October 6 - First meeting and founding of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, then called the Sinfonia Club, at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

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 1 - Leila Denmark, US-American pediatrician
• 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 6 - Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer and founder of The Royal Ballet, London (d. 2001)
• 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)
• 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 19 - Zheng Zhenduo, Chinese author and 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)
• Edward Elric, European Alchemist (d. Unknown)

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)
• March 27 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, ("The Morning Star") founded the Aligarh University in Awadh, India (b. 1817)
• 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)

External links

• 1898 Coin Pictures