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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 Hawaiian islands are made a US territory, five years after American involvement in the overthrow of the ruling dynasty | |
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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 |
| | | French and British forces meet at Fashoda, in a potentially explosive incident in the scramble for Africa | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Kitchener's victory at Omdurman brings to an end thirteen years of rule in Sudan by followers of the Mahdi | |
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| 1898 |
| | | In the Treaty of Paris, ending the Spanish-American War, Spain cedes Puerto Rico and Cuba to the USA | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The agreement ending the Spanish-American War includes Spain selling the Philippines to the USA for a payment of $20 million | |
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| 1899 |
| | | The Sudan begins half a century of supposedly joint rule by Britain and Egypt | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Mohammed ibn Abdullah (the Mad Mullah in British eyes) leads an uprising in British Somaliland | |
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| 1899 |
| | | US Secretary of State John Hay circulates a proposal that western powers should adopt an open-to-all trading policy in China | |
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