Notable Historical Events - 1898
1898 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY |
Jan 1 |
Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of SF Bay |
Jan 1 |
d'Annunzio's "Sogno d'un mattino di primavera," premieres in Rome |
Jan 4 |
1st installment of William Dean Howell's "Life & Letters" appears |
Jan 6 |
1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake |
Jan 12 |
Itō Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan. |
Jan 13 |
Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Alfred Dreyfus |
Jan 14 |
Joe Darling hits the 1st six in Tests (out of the ground) |
Jan 19 |
Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game |
Feb 1 |
1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co |
Feb 8 |
John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming mach (Mass) |
Feb 11 |
Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named US minister to Liberia |
Feb 15 |
USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die |
Feb 22 |
Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC |
Feb 23 |
In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter accusing government of anti-Semitism & wrongly jailing Alfred Dreyfus |
Mar 2 |
Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England |
Mar 8 |
Richard Straus' "Don Quixote" premieres in Keulen |
Mar 17 |
1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes) |
Mar 17 |
John Philip Holland achieves successful test runs of the first modern submarine off Staten Island |
Mar 24 |
1st automobile sold |
Mar 25 |
Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC |
Apr 8 |
Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese |
Apr 11 |
President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration |
Apr 12 |
Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in SF Bay to Navy |
Apr 19 |
2nd Boston Marathon won by Ron McDonald of Mass in 2:42:00 |
Apr 20 |
US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens |
Apr 21 |
Phillies' pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on 1st at bat |
Apr 21 |
Spanish-American War: The U.S. Congress, on April 25, recognizes that a state of war exists between the United States and Spain as of this date. |
Apr 22 |
1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship |
Apr 22 |
Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0 |
Apr 22 |
Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0 |
Apr 22 |
Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry |
Apr 22 |
US President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors |
Apr 24 |
US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines |
Apr 24 |
Spanish-American War: Spain delares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba |
Apr 25 |
Spanish-American War: The United States declares state of war on Spain effective from 21st April. |
Apr 30 |
Championship wrestling match at Met turns into a brawl |
May 1 |
George Dewey commands "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila |
May 3 |
Camp Merriman forms at Presidio (SF) (see 0517) |
May 4 |
24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09 |
May 8 |
The first games of the Italian Football League are played. |
May 12 |
Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters |
May 17 |
Camp Merritt forms in Presidio [see 0503] |
May 19 |
Post Office authorizes use of postcards |
May 21 |
US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized |
May 23 |
1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco |
May 25 |
1st US troop transport to Manila leaves SF |
May 26 |
32nd Belmont: F Littlefield aboard Bowling Brook wins in 2:32 |
May 26 |
SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utilities |
May 27 |
Arthur Pinero's "Trelawney of the Wells" premieres in London |
Jun 1 |
Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha |
Jun 7 |
Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chicago |
Jun 9 |
China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years |
Jun 10 |
US Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War |
Jun 11 |
1st US Marines (600) land at Guantanamo Cuba during Spanish-American War |
Jun 11 |
23rd Preakness: Willie Simms riding Sly Fox wins in 1:49.75 |
Jun 11 |
Emperor De Zong proclaims reforms in Peking |
Jun 12 |
Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control |
Jun 12 |
Filipino revolutionary forces under General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the sovereignty and independence of the Philippine Islands from the colonial rule of Spain |
Jun 13 |
Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital |
Jun 14 |
France signs Niger Convention |
Jun 15 |
US House of Representatives accepts annexation of Hawaii |
Jun 15 |
US marines attack Spanish off Guantánamo, Cuba |
Jun 16 |
China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei |
Jun 17 |
US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii |
Jun 17 |
The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established. |
Jun 18 |
1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ |
Jun 18 |
4th US Golf Open: Fred Herd shoots a 328 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass |
Jun 21 |
Guam becomes a territory of US |
Jun 23 |
Emilio Aguinaldo issues a decree replacing his dictatorial government with a revolutionary government, with himself as President |
Jun 24 |
American troops drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas, Cuba |
Jun 28 |
15th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Charlotte Sterry beats L Martin (6-4 6-4) |
Jun 28 |
22nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Reginald Doherty beats L Doherty (6-3 6-3 2-6 5-7 6-1) |
Jun 30 |
Winton Motor Carriage Company publishes the first known automobile ad in Scientific American using the headline "dispense with a horse." |
Jul 1 |
Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill |
Jul 3 |
American troops captured deserted Wake Island |
Jul 3 |
Dutch Automobile Club forms (KNAC) |
Jul 3 |
Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe |
Jul 3 |
US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba |
Jul 4 |
French liner "La Bourgogne" collides with bark Cromartyshire, 560 die |
Jul 4 |
US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War) |
Jul 7 |
US annexes Hawaii |
Jul 8 |
Phillies' Red Donahue no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0 |
Jul 8 |
US battle fleet under Admiral Dewey occupies Isla Grande at Manila |
Jul 8 |
The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip. |
Jul 10 |
Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo |
Jul 12 |
Jean-Baptiste Marchand hoists French flag in Fashoda Sudan |
Jul 13 |
SF Ferry Building at foot of Market St opens |
Jul 15 |
Camillo Golgi discovers the Golgi Apparatus (a delicate network inside cells essential for the transmission and reception of information between cells) |
Jul 17 |
Spanish American War - Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba |
Jul 21 |
Spain cedes Guam to USA |
Jul 22 |
Crew of Belgium RV Belgica see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs - 1st expedition to endure Antarctic winter |
Jul 25 |
1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay |
Jul 27 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dancing Men" (BG) |
Jul 28 |
Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender |
Jul 28 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Retired Colourman"(BG) |
Jul 30 |
Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes |
Aug 9 |
Rudolf Diesel, of Germany, patents the the diesel internal combustion engine |
Aug 12 |
Hawaii formally annexed to US |
Aug 12 |
Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed |
Aug 13 |
US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war |
Aug 16 |
Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster |
Aug 23 |
18th US Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (3-6 6-2 6-2 6-1) |
Aug 25 |
700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece. |
Aug 28 |
Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola". |
Aug 29 |
The Goodyear tire company is founded. |
Sep 1 |
Dutch soccer team Receiver forms |
Sep 1 |
Lord Kitchener's troops attack Omdurman, Sudan |
Sep 2 |
Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain |
Sep 2 |
Machine gun 1st used in battle |
Sep 6 |
Lord Kitchener destroys Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman |
Sep 9 |
Ottawa Football Club re-organizes into the Rough Riders |
Sep 10 |
Lord Kitchener's ships sails from Kartoum to Fashoda |
Sep 10 |
Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni. |
Sep 13 |
20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike |
Sep 13 |
Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film |
Sep 15 |
National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY |
Sep 18 |
Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan |
Sep 21 |
Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China, imprisoning the Guangxu Emperor. |
Sep 26 |
Victor Herbert/Harry Smith's musical premieres in NYC |
Sep 29 |
French troops reach Guinea & Sudan, Samori caught |
Sep 30 |
City of NY established |
Oct 1 |
Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens |
Oct 1 |
Henry Huntington buys LA Railway |
Oct 1 |
Jews are expelled from Kiev Russia |
Oct 1 |
Tsar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities. |
Oct 1 |
The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie. |
Oct 6 |
Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic |
Oct 6 |
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. |
Oct 8 |
First Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2 |
Oct 12 |
Establishment of the first town council in Mateur. |
Oct 18 |
American flag raised in Puerto Rico |
Oct 20 |
NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms |
Nov 2 |
French government of Dupuy forms |
Nov 2 |
Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem |
Nov 2 |
Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team. |
Nov 5 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Fuhrmann Henschel" premieres in Berlin |
Nov 10 |
Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed) |
Nov 22 |
Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome) |
Nov 24 |
The International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opens. |
Nov 26 |
-27) Snow/ice storm over US; 455 die |
Nov 26 |
SS Portland "The Titanic of New England" leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed |
Dec 10 |
Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam |
Dec 10 |
The first western pilgrims were welcomed at The House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá |
Dec 12 |
1st 1st-class game between NSW & Tasmania |
Dec 18 |
Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph) |
Dec 21 |
Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium |
Dec 24 |
Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto" premieres in Amsterdam |
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