1898 Timeline

1898 Frank Lloyd Wright Relocates Practice to His Home
Wright relocated his practice to his home in 1898 in order to bring his work and family lives closer. This move made further sense as the majority of the architect’s projects at that time...
1898 James Joyce Enrolls at University College Dublin
He enrolled at the recently established University College Dublin (UCD) in 1898, and studied modern languages, specifically English, French and Italian. He also became active in theatrica...
1898
to 1905
T. S. Eliot Attends Smith Academy
From 1898 to 1905, Eliot attended Smith Academy, where he studied Latin, Ancient Greek, French, and German. He began to write poetry when he was 14 under the influence of Edward Fitzgeral...
1898 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' is Published
In 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to 2 years of hard labor for acts of ‘gross indecency’. During his time at Reading Gaol, he witnessed a rare hanging, and in the three years between his...
1898 Winston Churchill Is Transferred To Egypt
The 21st Lancers were then ordered to cut the Dervish line of retreat into the city. As the Regiment advanced, they came under rifle fire from what appeared to be a few hundred skirmisher...
1898 Feb 15 USS Maine Explodes off the Coast of Havana
The Maine spent her active career operating along the East Coast of the United States and the Caribbean. In January 1898, the Maine was sent from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, to pr...
1898 Feb 18 Enzo Ferrari is Born
Enzo Ferrari was born in Modena Italy on February 18 1898. He came from a well to do family that owned a metal foundry making railroad parts, they were the first in his town to own a car....
1898 Apr "The Way Of The World" Is Published
The Way of the World is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in Home Monthly in April 1898. Six boys live quietly together. Their main play is creating their "town": o...
1898 Apr 25 The United States Formally Declares War On Spain
On April 25,1898, the United States formally declared war against Spain. The Monroe Doctrine, which since 1823 had viewed any European intervention in the Americas as a threat to U.S. se...
1898 May 1 Battle of Manila Bay
The Battle of Manila Bay took place on 1 May 1898, during the Spanish-American War. The American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey engaged the Spanish Pacific Squadron under A...
1898 May 6 Theodore Roosevelt Becomes Lieutenant-Colonel of the Rough Riders
Upon the 1898 Declaration of War launching the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt resigned from the Navy Department. With the aid of U.S. Army Colonel Leonard Wood, Roosevelt found volunteer...
1898 May 10 Battle of San Juan
The Battle of San Juan, not to be confused with the Battle of San Juan Hill, refers to an American naval attack on the fortifications of San Juan, Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American ...
1898 Jun 6 United States Launches First Attack in the Invasion of Guantanamo Bay
The 1898 Battle of Guantánamo Bay happened June 6–June 10, 1898, during the Spanish-American War, when American and Cuban forces invaded the strategically and commercially important area ...
1898 Jun 10 U.S. Marines Land In Guantanamo Bay
On June 10, 1898, U.S. Marines landed at Guantánamo Bay. For the next month, American troops fought a land war in Cuba that resulted in the end of Spanish colonial rule in the Western Hem...
1898 Jun 20
to 1898 Jun 21
 United States Captures Guam from Kingdom of Spain During the Spanish-American War
The Capture of Guam was a bloodless event between the United States and the Kingdom of Spain during the Spanish-American War. The United States Navy sent a single cruiser, the USS Charles...
1898 Jun 24 Battle of Las Guasimas
The Battle of Las Guasimas of June 24, 1898, part of the Spanish-American War, unfolded from Major General "Fighting Joe" Wheeler's attempt to storm a Spanish position in the jungles surr...
1898 Jun 24 Battle of Las Guasismas
Brigadier General Antero Rubín commanded nearly 1,500 men and 2 guns, distributed as follows: * 3 companies of the 1st "Provisional de Puerto Rico" infantry battalion, * 5 com...
1898 Jul 1 Battle of San Juan Hill
The Battle of San Juan Hill (July 1, 1898) was the bloodiest and most famous battle of the Spanish–American War. It was also one of the greatest victories for the Rough Riders. At San ...
1898 Jul 6 Annexation of Hawaii by the United States
When William McKinley won the presidential election in November 1896, the question of Hawaii's annexation to the U.S. was again opened. The previous president, Grover Cleveland, was a fri...
1898 Jul 25 American Forces Land in Guanica, Puerto Rico
The Spanish forces expected the Americans to attack the northern region of the island and concentrated their defenses around San Juan and Arecibo. The Spanish government was also aware of...
1898 Jul 25 Puerto Rico Is Invaded By The United States
On July 25, 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Puerto Rico was invaded by the United States with a landing at Guánica. As an outcome of the war, Spain ceded Puerto Rico, along with Cu...
1898 Jul 26 Battle of Yauco
After Rivera, the keeper of the Guánica lighthouse, notified Atilio Gaztambide, the mayor of the town of Yauco, located six miles (10 km) north of Guánica, of the American invasion of Gua...
1898 Aug 1
to 1898 Aug 5
 Battle of Fajardo
On August 1, the USS Puritan under the command of Captain Frederic W. Rodgers, was sailing by the coastline of the city of Fajardo, when Rogers noticed the "Faro de Las Cabezas de San Jua...
1898 Aug 5 Battle of Guayama
After the town of Yauco was taken, Major General Nelson A. Miles decided to attack the City of Ponce by sea and by land. General Garretson's 6th Illinois and 6th Massachusetts had returne...
1898 Aug 6
to 1898 Aug 9
 Battle of Guamani River Bridge
On August 6, Colonel Coit sent two companies of the 4th Ohio on a reconnaissance mission across and beyond a cast iron bridge that crossed the Río Guanamí (Guamani River). The road beyond...
1898 Aug 9 Battle of Coamo
Shortly after the American soldiers disembarked, a group of Spanish and Puerto Rican units began moving from Ponce to Aibonito, marching through the Carretera Central (Central Highway). T...
1898 Aug 10 Battle of Silva Heights
Brigadier General Theodore Schwan and 2,896 men of his Independent Brigade had landed in Guanica and marched towards occupied Yauco. Schwan and his men were ordered to move westward and t...
1898 Aug 12 Battle of Asomante
The American cavalry pursued the soldiers that had retreated from Coamo, but were not able to reach them until the units had entered Aibonito Pass, a region more commonly known as Asomant...
1898 Sep 23 Empire Mine Explosion
Seventy men were entombed Friday in the Empire Mine of Snowdon, Gould & Co., one fourth of a mile below town, as the result of an explosion of gas, followed by another explosion of fire d...
1898 Oct 3 Adolf Reichwein Is Born
Adolf Reichwein (3 October 1898 in Bad Ems – 20 October 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee, executed) was a German educator, economist, and cultural policymaker for the SPD. He was also a resistan...
1898 Oct 13 Henry James' Novella "Turn of the Screw" Is Published
The Turn of the Screw is a novella (short novel) written by Henry James. Originally published in 1898, it is ostensibly a ghost story that has lent itself well to operatic and film adapta...
1898 Oct 14 Wreck of the SS Mohegan
The Atlantic Transport Company's steamer Mohegan, formerly the Cleopatra of the Wilson and Furness-Leyland Line, which left London for New York yesterday with 50 passengers and a crew num...
1898 Oct 18 American Troops In Puerto Rico Raise The U.S. Flag
On October 18, 1898, American troops fighting the Spanish-American War raised the United States flag in Puerto Rico formalizing U.S. control of the former Spanish colony. General Nelson A...
1898 Nov 8 Theodore Roosevelt Elected Governor of New York
On leaving the Army, Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1898 as a Republican. He made such a concerted effort to root out corruption and "machine politics" that Republican boss...
1898 Nov 26
to 1898 Nov 27
 The Portland Gale
It is estimated that over 150 vessels were lost, both in the harbors and at sea. Many were never heard from after sailing. Miles of coastline from Buzzards Bay to Cape Ann were strewn wit...
1898 Dec 10 Treaty of Paris is Signed, Ending the Spanish-American War
American and Spanish delegates met in Paris on October 1, 1898 to produce a treaty that would bring an end to the war after six months of hostilities. The American commission consisted of...
1898 Dec 29 Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity is founded
The mission of Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity is to foster and develop in its membership the tenets of its Credo: Intellectual Awareness, Social Responsibility, Integrity and Brotherly Love in ...