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1898 Calendar

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•  July 7, 1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
•  August 11, 1898 – Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
•  August 24, 1898 – Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
•  August 25, 1898 – 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
•  August 29, 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
•  September 21, 1898 – Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days’ Reform in China.
•  October 1, 1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
•  November 10, 1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history.
•  December 10, 1898 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
•  December 26, 1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.

•  February 18, 1898 – Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1980)
•  June 17, 1898 – Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)
•  July 17, 1898 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (d. 1991)
•  July 18, 1898 – John Stuart, Scottish actor (d. 1979)
•  July 19, 1898 – Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher (d. 1979)
•  August 25, 1898 – Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975)
•  September 14, 1898 – Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (d. 1986)
•  September 30, 1898 – Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977)
•  October 10, 1898 – Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
•  December 28, 1898 – Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (d. 1947)