* 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

The work was reprinted 10 times in the 17th century, 8 times in the 18th and 4 times in the 19th ( notably in a beautifully printed and illustrated adaptation ( 1898 ) in modern French by Gaston Paris ).

In 1898 Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild bequeathed the glittering contents from his New Smoking Room at Waddesdon Manor as the Waddesdon Bequest.

Impressed by Brâncuși's talent for carving, an industrialist entered him in the Craiova School of Arts and Crafts ( școala de arte și meserii ), where he pursued his love for woodworking, graduating with honors in 1898.

Image: Camille Pissarro 002. jpg | Avenue de l ' Opera, Paris, 1898

* 1824 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter ( d. 1898 )

Georges Méliès first used superimposition on a dark background in la Caverne maudite ( The Cave of the Demons ) made a couple of months later in 1898, and then elaborated it further with multiple superimpositions in the one shot in l ' Homme de têtes ( The Troublesome Heads ).

* 1895 – Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.

In 1898, Janet was appointed psychology lecturer at the Sorbonne, and in 1902 became chair of experimental and comparative psychology at the Collège de France.

* 1898 – Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.

* 1980 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter ( b. 1898 )

* Karl E. Schedl ( 1898 – 1979 ), Austrian zoologist, scientist ( de )

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* December 14 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter ( d. 1898 )

World class writers in French include the great romantic and symbolist poet Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949, Nobel Prize 1911 ), dramatists Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ) and Henri Michaux ( 1899 – 1984 ), and the poet and playwright Émile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), one of the founders of symbolism.

In 1898, La Paz was made the de facto seat of the national government, with Sucre remaining the nominal historical as well as judiciary capital.

* Castanhoso, M. de ( 1898 ) Dos feitos de D. Christovam da Gama em Ethiopia Lisbon: Imprensa nacional.

In his third volume of Études de science musicale, published in 1898, Antoine Dechevrens laid out a comprehensive system of interpreting the neumes of Sankt Gallen style in proportional note lengths.

* Études de science musicale ' IIIe Étude ' by Antoine Dechevrens, Paris, 1898

He spent the academic year 1898 – 99 at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, where he studied morphology and philology.

Edmond Rostand, aged 29, at the time of the first performance of Cyrano, 1898 The production of his heroic comedy of Cyrano de Bergerac ( 28 December 1897, Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin ), with Benoît-Constant Coquelin in the title-role, was a triumph.