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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 |
| | | Joshua Slocum reaches Newport, Rhode Island, after sailing 46,000 miles to achieve the first solo voyage round the world | |
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| 1898 |
| | | US basketball becomes a professional game with the establishment in Philadelphia of the National Basketball League | |
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| 1898 |
| | | 5-year-old Mary Pickford plays her first professional role on stage | |
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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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| 1898 |
| | | The Australian soprano Nellie Melba forms the Melba Grand Opera Company as a touring venture in the USA | |
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| 1899 |
| | | US social scientist Thorstein Veblen publishes The Theory of the Leisure Class, an attack on capitalist exploitation and 'consumerism' | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Marconi equips two ships to send radio reports to New York on the progress of the yachts racing for the America's Cup | |
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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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