* 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.

* 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

In 1898, Palmyra was annexed to the United States along with the overall annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, and on June 14, 1900, Palmyra became part of the new Territory of Hawaii.

After the American Civil War and with increasing capability, the United States government did not accept self-determination as a basis during its Purchase of Alaska and attempted purchase of the West Indian islands of Saint Thomas and Saint John in 1860s, or its growing influence in the Hawaiian Islands, that led to annexation in 1898.

* Malo, David, Hawaiian Antiquities, first published in English in 1898, available as Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 2, Second Edition, 1951

When Cushing became ill, Culin continued the work and eventually published three inter-related papers: American Indian Games ( 1898 ), Hawaiian Games ( 1899 ) and Philippine Games ( 1900 ).

From 1898 to 1902, he helped organize and manage the Hawaiian Trust Company, and was managing director of the Hawaiian Fertilizer Company.

However, in 1898, when the flag law was passed for the third time, the king had to sanction it.

He found an outpost built of earth at Bazar Dara, surmounted by a Chinese flag ( by 1898 the Chinese had intruded to the area south of the Kun Lun Mountains with a few unarmed Kirghiz in occupation.

* Alfred Martin Ray, Buffalo Soldier, served in the U. S. Army from 1872 to 1903, planted the US flag on San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898.

In 1898, the Prime Minister ( Boström ) threatened to resign, and the King to abdicate, after the Norwegians began using their own flag.

On the midnight of April 30 to the 1st of May 1898, U. S. Navy Commodore George Dewey led his naval squadron, with his flag hoisted on board the armored cruiser USS Olympia, eastward along the southern coast of Corregidor Island, beyond the reach of Spanish batteries and with no navigational lights on.

The Norwegian flag law of 1898 specifies the appearance of the merchant and state flags and their use by merchant ships, customs and post vessels.

1898: The building as Fort Point, taken from a flag given to Spanish-American War soldiers on their way to the Philippines via the Presidio in San Francisco

It was accepted as the official Zionist flag at the Second Zionist Congress held in Switzerland in 1898, and the State of Israel later adopted the design as the official flag, upon its independence from the United Kingdom in 1948.

US flag cancel of 1898, on a 2c " Farming in the West " of the Trans-Mississippi issue of that year

The American flag was raised at Fort Santiago on August 13, 1898 indicating the start of American rule over the city.

On August 12, 1898, the flag of the Republic of Hawaii over ‘ Iolani Palace was lowered to raise the United States flag to signify annexation.

On August 13, 1898, the American flag was raised in Fort Santiago signifying the start of the American rule in the Philippines.

" Raising the American flag over Fort Santiago, Manila, on the evening of August 13, 1898.

Already in 1814 the Norwegians instituted a separate flag, this would remain an issue until the union badge was discarded from the Norwegian flag in 1898.

In a roundtable held on January 2000, the historians decided that the raising of the flag on December 26, 1898 by Alejandro Gonzalez in Surigao was duly sanctioned by Emilio Aguinaldo's government.