* 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 – 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

* 1963 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician ( b. 1898 )

* March 27 – Gaspard Fauteux, politician, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons and Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec ( b. 1898 )

Viñes premiered works including Ravel's Menuet antique ( 1898 ), Jeux d ' eau ( 1902 ), Pavane pour une infante défunte ( 1902 ), Miroirs ( 1906 ), and Gaspard de la nuit ( 1909 ).

* 1898 – Stuart Sinclair Garson, Canadian Premier of Manitoba ( d. 1977 )

* 1898 – Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 1987 )

* 1840 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, French Canadian lawyer ( d. 1898 )

* 1898 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress ( d. 1937 )

* Robert Schofield Morris ( 1898 – 1964 ), Canadian architect

* January 23 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress ( b. 1898 )

In 1898, Fairbanks was appointed a member of the United States and British Joint High Commission which met in Quebec City for the adjustment of Canadian questions, including the boundary dispute about Alaska.

It was officially incorporated on June 1, 1898 but has a history stretching back to the 1880s when it was a port and shipbuilding center for steamboat services running northwards into British Columbia during construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, related to its location at a stretch of the Columbia known as the Little Dalles, a rapids and narrows that was a barrier to navigation and which also was an alternate name for Northport itself.

Indeed, by 1898, Dawson grew into the largest Canadian city west of Winnipeg, with a population of 40, 000.

In response, the Canadian government officially established the Yukon Territory in 1898.

The Canadian " Xmas " map stamp of 1898.

: Other Canadian championships: 3 – 1898, 1900, 1902

Ottawa's first Canadian championship came in 1898.

James Ford Garden ( February 19, 1847 – December 9, 1914 ) was a Canadian engineer and the seventh Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1898 to 1900.

The Canadian Pacific Railway built a line from Lethbridge, Alberta, to Kootenay Landing, British Columbia through the Crowsnest Pass between 1897 and 1898.

Even more importantly, by passing in late 1898, Section 21 of the Dominion Military Act, the Canadian Government exempted the Doukhobors from military service.

" XMAS 1898 " is near the bottom of this Postage stamps and postal history of Canada | Canadian postage stamp.

* William McKenzie Thomson ( 1898 – 1987 ), Canadian World War I pilot

The Canadian Christmas stamp of 1898, depicting a map of the world with British possessions in red, is famous for unusual color oddities that appear to claim all of Europe, or the United States, or central Asia for Britain.

Clementina Trenholme introduced Empire Day in Canadian schools, first in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1898, on the last school day before 24 May, Queen Victoria's birthday.

* William Henry Drummond ( 1854 – 1907 ), Canadian poet, born in Ireland, elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1898

Brooke Claxton, PC, DCM, KC ( 23 August 1898 – 13 June 1960 ) was a Canadian veteran of World War I, federal Minister of National Health and Welfare and Minister of National Defence.