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| 1898 |
| | | Germany passes the first of four Fleet Acts, reflecting the determination of Alfred von Tirpitz to build a navy equal to that of Britain | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Émile Zola sends an open letter to the French president, headed 'J'accuse!', drawing attention to the injustice done to Alfred Dreyfus | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes Women and Economics, developing the feminist theme in US cultural and political life | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The National Consumers' League, headed by Florence Kelley, fights for improved conditions in the US factories making consumer goods | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The US battleship Maine is blown up in Havana harbour, sparking off the Spanish-American War | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The Cunard family, then living close by at Orleans House, buy the Marble Hill estate for £36,000 with the intention of creating a housing estate. | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The Hawaiian islands are made a US territory, five years after American involvement in the overthrow of the ruling dynasty | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Russian forces seize the strategically important Chinese harbour known in the west as Port Arthur | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The Philippines declare independence from the colonial power, Spain, with whom they are at war | |
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| 1898 |
| | | British chemists William Ramsay and Morris Travers isolate the element c | |
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