Canada issued an interesting stamp depicting a map of the entire world, with British possessions marked in red, inscribed " XMAS 1898 " ( the rate took effect on Christmas Day ), and " WE HOLD A VASTER EMPIRE THAN HAS BEEN " underneath, a line extracted from " A Song of Empire " composed by Sir Lewis Morris in 1887.

On Christmas Day, 1898, the Imperial Penny Post extended the rate throughout the British Empire except for Australia and New Zealand, who would not subscribe to it until 1905.

< td > During Spanish colonial rule ( 1492 to 1898 )," Navidad " ( Christmas in English ), marked the Christian ecumenical celebration date of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.

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.

Grimsby started the season poorly – they were near the bottom of the division by Christmas and were beaten 7 – 0 by Preston North End in the FA Cup, but rallied to finish tenth at the end of 1898 – 99.

" A revival of a musical adaptation of Alice in Wonderland with music by Walter Slaughter, produced by Horace Sedger, opened for the Christmas season of 1898 and ran until mid-February 1899.

This Canadian stamp's Christmas connection is in the " XMAS 1898 " at the bottom of the map.

* 2011 – De Fire Store – julen 1898 ( Christmas special ) Cappelen Damm

The oldest known reference to the quote may be found in the 1898 Christmas edition of The British Weekly in 1898 as “ Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle .”

Nu tändas tusen juleljus, is a Christian traditional Swedish language Christmas song, written in 1898 by the Swedish song text writer Emmy Köhler ( both text and melody ).

In 1898, the Pilsner Urquell trade mark was created to put emphasis on being the original brewery.

The German Fountain (" The Kaiser Wilhelm Fountain "), an octagonal domed fountain in neo-Byzantine style, which was constructed by the German government in 1900 to mark the German Emperor Wilhelm II's visit to Istanbul in 1898, is located at the northern entrance to the Hippodrome area, right in front of the Blue Mosque.

A stone obelisk on the boundary between Hawridge and Cholesbury was erected in 1898 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee the year before.

A stone obelisk on the boundary between Hawridge and Cholesbury was erected in 1898 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee the year before.

Griffith lowered his ERA over the following years to a low of 1. 88 in 1898, the lowest mark in the league.

The Trans-Mississippi Issue, or " Trans-Miss " for short, is a set of nine commemorative postage stamps issued by the United States to mark the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition held in Omaha, Nebraska.

Additionally, the Angel mark has been used by EMI, its predecessors, and affiliated companies since 1898.

The Canadian map stamp of 1898 bears an inscription " XMAS 1898 ", but it was actually issued to mark the inauguration of the Imperial Penny Postage rate.

This area now consists of the provinces of Manitoba ( admitted after negotiation between Canada and a Métis provisional government in 1870 ), Saskatchewan, and Alberta ( both created in 1905 ), as well as the Northwest Territories, the Yukon Territory ( created 1898, following the start of the Klondike Gold Rush ), and Nunavut ( created in 1999 ).

The Waterloo & City Railway opened on 11 July 1898, and from the start was operated by the L & SWR.

After the start of the Meiji period, the Tōkaidō Main Line railway connected Chigasaki Station with Tokyo and Osaka in 1898, which spurred the development of the area.

At the start of the War Joe Jr. was made an aide on his father's staff and sailed for Cuba on June 1898.

He was a student at Howard University when — as a result of the start of the War with Spain — he entered the military service on July 13, 1898 as a temporary first lieutenant of the 8th United States Volunteer Infantry.

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

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

1898 the start of the manufacture of the engines with the Bánki water injection system

From the start of 1898 he issued a weekly in Maltese that was to serve him as his mouthpiece for many years to come.

Following the Spanish – American War of 1898, Spain ceded Guam to the United States and sold the remainder of the Marianas ( along with the Caroline Islands ) to Imperial Germany under the German – Spanish Treaty of 1899.

After being defeated in 1898 in the Spanish-American War and losing possession of the Philippine Islands, Spain sold the Palau archipelago to Imperial Germany in the 1899 German-Spanish Treaty.

In 1898 she entered the classe de perfection of Ekaterina Vazem, former Prima ballerina of the Saint Petersburg Imperial Theatres.

It was founded as Imperial University of Peking in 1898 as a replacement of the ancient Guozijian ( 國子監 guózǐjiàn ).

Peking University was established in Beijing on July 3, 1898 during the Hundred Days Reform and was originally known as the Imperial University of Peking () to replace the ancient Guozijian ( 國子監 guózǐjiàn ).

McGeorge Bundy in the Kennedy and Johnson Years ", in Behind the Throne: Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898 – 1968, ed.

Arguably the most important works by Veblen include, but are not restricted to, his most famous works ( Theory of the Leisure Class ; Theory of Business Enterprise ), but his monograph Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution and the 1898 essay entitled Why is Economics not an Evolutionary Science have both been influential in shaping the research agenda for following generations of social scientists.

In 1898 Abraham Harkavy discovered, in Imperial Library of St. Petersburg, fifteen of the twenty chapters of David's philosophical work entitled Ishrun Maḳalat ( Twenty Chapters ) of which 15 survive.

He was the first Inspector General of Military Education in 1898 and made that post one of the three most powerful in the Imperial Army.

In 1898, a first step towards Imperial Penny Postage happened when a number of Dominions agreed on a uniform rate of 1d ( 2 ¢ in Canada ).

* Imperial Concubine Yu ( 豫嬪 ) ( 1816 – 1898 ) of the Shanggiya clan.

After serving with the Imperial Pioneer Guards in Potsdam from 1893 to 1894 and internships in Arnsberg and Paderborn from 1894 to 1898, he earned his doctorate at Würzburg in 1897 and moved to Berlin in 1899, where he opened a lawyer's office with his brother, Theodor.

Alexei Nikolayevich Kuropatkin ( Russian: Алексей Николаевич Куропаткин, March 17 ( 29 ) 1848-January 16, 1925 ) was the Russian Imperial Minister of War ( 1898 – 1904 ) who is often held responsible for major Russian drawbacks in the Russian-Japanese War, notably the Battle of Mukden and the Battle of Liaoyang.

Hirosaki became the home garrison town for the Imperial Japanese Army ’ s IJA 8th Division from October, 1898.

Shandong Imperial University became hence the second modern national university established in the country after Imperial Capital University () that had been founded in 1898 and later became Peking University.

In 1898, on his 18th birthday, he debuted on the stage of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Paquita, with the Imperial Russian Ballet ( now the Mariinsky Ballet ).

Imperial Borderland: Bobrikov and the Attempted Russification of Finland, 1898 – 1904 ( 1995 )

Imperial Borderland: Bobrikov and the Attempted Russification of Finland, 1898 – 1904 ( 1995 )

His long list of honorary military posts included: honorary colonel of the 2nd London Corps from 24 September 1887, honorary colonel of the 5th Battalion, the Sherwood Foresters ( Derbyshire Regiment ) from 29 December 1888, honorary colonel of the 1st Newcastle upon Tyne ( Western Division ), Royal Artillery from 18 April 1894, honorary colonel of the Waterford Artillery ( Southern Division ) from 4 March 1896, colonel-commandant of the Royal Artillery from 7 October 1896, honorary colonel of the 3rd Battalion, the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment from 1 January 1898, honorary colonel of the City of London Imperial Volunteers from 10 March 1900, honorary colonel of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment from 5 September 1900, colonel of the Irish Guards from 17 October 1900, honorary colonel of the 2nd Hampshire ( Southern Division ), Royal Garrison Artillery from 15 August 1901, honorary colonel of the 3rd ( Dundee Highland ) Volunteer Battalion, the Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders ) from 19 September 1903, honorary colonel of the North Somerset Yeomanry from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of the 6th Battalion, the City of London ( Rifles ') Regiment from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of the 1st Wessex Brigade from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of 6th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of The Waterford Royal Field Reserve Artillery from 2 August 1908 and honorary colonel of 1st ( Hull ) Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment from 11 November 1914 ( three days before his death ).

Münden, Province of Hanover in 1898, Wollweber joined Imperial Germany's navy, the Kaiserliche Marine, at a young age and served in the submarine department during World War I.

In 1897, already world-famous, he was elected to the Imperial Academy of Arts and in 1898 he was named the head of the Landscape Studio at his alma mater.