* 1826 – Gustave Moreau, French painter ( d. 1898 )

* 1898 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, the wife of Amedeo Modigliani ( d. 1920 )

* 1898 – Lily Pons, American soprano ( d. 1976 )

* 1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ( d. 1963 )

* 1898 – Spanish – American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.

* 1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.

* 1898 – Regis Toomey, American actor ( d. 1991 )

* 1898 – Ernő Nagy, Hungarian fencer ( d. 1977 )

* 2012 – Leila Denmark, American pediatrician ( b. 1898 )

* 1898 – Alexis Minotis, Greek actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1898 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet ( d. 1966 )

* 1898 – An Armistice ends the Spanish – American War.

* 1898 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.

* 1872 – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator and author ( d. 1898 )

* 1898 – 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.

* 1817 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, French nun and saint, founder of the Religious of the Assumption ( d. 1898 )

* 1898 – Helmut Hasse, German mathematician ( d. 1975 )

* 1898 – Arthur Wood, English cricketer ( d. 1973 )

* He married, on December 7, 1929 ( civil ), in Aix-les-Bains, France, and December 13, 1929 ( religious ), in Bombay, India, Andrée Joséphine Carron ( 1898 – 1976 ).

), Prosopographia Imperii Romani, 3 vol., Berlin, 1897 – 1898.

Alfonso had two sons by Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( Castellón de la Plana, 15 December 1849 – Paris, 24 December 1898 ):

By Spanish actress María del Carmen Ruíz y Moragas ( 1898 – 1936 ):

* Alfons Gorbach ( 1898 – 1972 ), Austrian politician

* August 21 – Aubrey Beardsley, British artist ( d. 1898 )

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley ( 21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898 ) was an English illustrator and author.

* Aubrey Beardsley: An Essay with a Preface ( 1898 )

A near-complete transcript, Brief Lives chiefly of Contemporaries set down John Aubrey between the Years 1669 and 1696, was edited for the Clarendon Press in 1898 by the Rev.

* Aubrey Vincent Beardsley ( 1872 – 1898 ), English illustrator and author.

John Aubrey Vivian ( 23 July 1854-1 March 1898 ); died unmarried

An illustration for an 1898 edition of Volpone by Aubrey Beardsley.

* John Aubrey, Lives of Eminent Men ( London, 1898 ).

: E. A. Marlin, The Life and Speeches of Daniel Henry Deniehy ; G. B. Barton, Literature in New South Wales, pp. 55-63 ; W. B. Dalley, Introduction to reprint of Deniehy's The Attorney-General of New Barataria ; The Bulletin, Red Page, 17 September 1898 ; Aubrey Halloran, Journal and Proceedings Royal Australian Historical Society, vol.

* Aubrey Beardsley ( 1872 – 1898 ), English artist, illustrator, and author

The fictional Mademoiselle de Maupin, from Six Drawings Illustrating Theophile Gautier's Romance Mademoiselle de Maupin by Aubrey Beardsley, 1898

* William Ameleus Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans ( 1840 – 1898 )

William Amelius Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans PC ( 15 April 1840 – 10 May 1898 ), styled Earl of Burford until 1849, was a British Liberal politician.

Charles Victor Albert Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 11th Duke of St Albans ( 26 March 1870 – 19 September 1934 ) was a British peer and soldier, known as the Earl of Burford before 1898.

The drama concerned Beardsley's life from the time of Oscar Wilde ’ s arrest in April 1895, which resulted in Beardsley losing his position at The Yellow Book, to his death from tuberculosis in 1898.

* August 21-Aubrey Beardsley, English painter and illustrator ( d. 1898 )

The British Museum was run from its inception by a ' Principal Librarian ' ( when the book collections were still part of the Museum ), a role that was renamed ' Director and Principal Librarian ' in 1898, and ' Director ' in 1973 ( on the separation of the British Library ).

The British Post Office adopted it for a simplex circuit between London and Paris during 1897, then used it for more general purposes from 1898.

From 1898 American producer Charles Urban expanded the London-based Warwick Trading Company to produce British films, mostly documentary and news.

* 1898 – Charles Pelham Villiers, British Member of Parliament ( b. 1802 )

When the British attempted to take control of the New Territories in 1898 they were resisted by the local militias which had been formed for mutual defence against pirate raids.

Neon ( Greek ( neon ) meaning " new one ") was discovered in 1898 by the British chemists Sir William Ramsay ( 1852 – 1916 ) and Morris W. Travers ( 1872 – 1961 ) in London.

* Harry Patch ( 1898 – 2009 ), British veteran of World War I

* Thomas Alan Stephenson ( 1898 – 1961 ), British zoologist

A British officer who observed one of these fortifications around the time of the 1898 Hut Tax war ended his description of it thus:

The origins of the Sudanese Army date to Sudanese soldiers recruited by the British during the reconquest of Sudan in 1898.

* 1898 – Battle of Omdurman – British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.

Kruger won another presidential election in 1898, but the following year British forces were gathering on the borders of the Boer Republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State and fearing Britain's imminent annexation, the Boers launched a preemptive strike against the nearby British colonies in 1899, a strike which became the Second Boer War.

; 1898: British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat the Mahdist forces at the battle of Omdurman, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan.

William Ewart Gladstone, FRS, FSS ( 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898 ) was a British Liberal statesman.

* Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa, W. W. A. FitzGerald, ( London, 1898 )

Warfare in the early 20th century ( 1914 – 1918 ) Clockwise from top: front line Trench warfare | Trenches, a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British Mark I ( tank ) | Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible ( 1898 ) | HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a Naval mine | mine at the Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign | battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas mask s, and German Albatros D. III biplane s.

* February 5 – Leonard Monteagle Barlow, British fighter pilot ( b. 1898 )

* March 5 – Herbert Mundin, British actor ( b. 1898 )