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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 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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| 1898 |
| | | Henry James moves from London to Lamb House in Rye, Sussex, which remains his home for the rest of his life | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Theodore Roosevelt fights against the Spanish in Cuba with a volunteer regiment of cavalry, the Rough Riders | |
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| 1898 |
| | | British chemists William Ramsay and Morris Travers isolate the element neon | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Winston Churchill gallops into battle with the Twenty-First Lancers at Omdurman | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky, succeeds at the Moscow Art Theatre | |
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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 |
| | | British chemists William Ramsay and Morris Travers isolate the element xenon | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Marie Curie and her husband Pierre isolate a new element which they name polonium in honour of her native Poland | |
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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 |
| | | 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 |
| | | 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 |
| | | Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the element radium, working without any protection because unaware of the danger of radioactivity | |
|  | Pierre and Marie Curie in their laboratory
Wellcome Library, London
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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 |
| | | H.G. Wells publishes his science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds, in which Martians arrive in a rocket to invade earth | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Marconi launches a factory in Chelmsford, England, for the purpose of manufacturing radios ('wirelesses' in the language of the time) | |
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| 1898 |
| | | English town-planner Ebenezer Howard puts forward a Utopian scheme in Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Henry James publishes The Turn of the Screw in a collection of short stories | |
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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 |
| | | The Sudan begins half a century of supposedly joint rule by Britain and Egypt | |
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| 1899 |
| | | The War of a Thousand Days begins in Colombia, causing eventually 100,000 deaths | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Belgian racing driver Camille Jenatzy is the first to drive faster than a mile a minute, reaching 65 mph in an electric car at Achères in France | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in transmitting a wireless telegraph message across the English Channel | |
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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 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 |
| | | The Boer War breaks out, ostensibly over the rights of British settlers in the Transvaal | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Edward Elgar teases with the word 'enigma' printed at the head of his orchestral Variations on an Original Theme | |
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