By the end of 1898, Western pilgrims started coming to Akka on pilgrimage to visit ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ; this group of pilgrims, including Phoebe Hearst, was the first time that Bahá ' ís raised up in the West had met ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

Nicholas II of Russia stood as godfather to Boris and met the young boy during Ferdinand's official visit to Saint Petersburg in July 1898.

A prominent 19th and early 20th century rabbi, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, claimed upon Kaiser Wilhelm's visit to Palestine in 1898, three decades before Hitler's rise to power, he had a tradition from his teachers that the Germans are descended from the ancient Amalekites.

Among his later publications were: La Troisième jeunesse de Mme Prune ( The Third Youth of Mrs. Plum, 1905 ), which resulted from a return visit to Japan and once again hovers between narrative and travelog ; Les Désenchantées ( The Unawakened, 1906 ); La Mort de Philae ( The Death of Philae, 1908 ), recounting a trip to Egypt ; Judith Renaudin ( produced at the Théâtre Antoine, 1898 ), a five-act historical play that Loti presented as based on an episode in his family history ; and, in collaboration with Emile Vedel, a translation of King Lear, produced at the Théâtre Antoine in 1904.

File: Wilhelm Decorated Streets. jpg | Wilhelm II of Germany during his state visit to Jerusalem, 1898.

* Nakahama Manjirō ( 1827 – 1898 ) was one of the first Japanese people to visit the United States and an important translator during the Opening of Japan.

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.

When Messager became chief conductor of the Opéra-Comique theatre in 1898, his enthusiastic recommendations prompted Albert Carré, the head of the opera house, to visit Debussy and hear the work played on the piano at two sessions, in May 1898 and April 1901.

On April 22, 1898, The Oregonian reported that Virgil "... is now enjoying a very pleasant visit with her and his two grandchildren at her home, which is near that of Mrs. Eaton, in North Portland.

However, while arranging for the German Emperor Wilhelm II to visit Palestine in 1898, he contracted dysentery and died the following year.

After a visit to the region in 1898, U. S. Senator Redfield Proctor estimated that that up to 200, 000 Cubans had died from starvation and disease within " Spanish forts ", essentially concentration camps.

In 1898 she made her first visit to Paris with two friends from the Slade, and while there she studied under James McNeill Whistler at the Académie Carmen.

In 1898, Boston National League Director William H. Conant would recall having paid, around the time of the 1891 payment, a $ 200 bar bill for Kelly and friends and being forwarded, on a visit to the bar later that night, another Kelly tab for $ 140.

In 1898 – 1900 Borchgrevink led the British-financed Southern Cross Expedition, which in 1899 became the first to overwinter on the Antarctic mainland and the first to visit the Great Ice Barrier since the expedition of Sir James Ross nearly sixty years previously.

In 1898, a movie was made, entitled General Wheeler and Secretary of War Alger at Camp Wikoff, that documents an official visit as Secretary of War.

In the daily 125 page journal ( with an additional 35 pages of imprints ) that Taussig maintained of his experiences and observations during the Spanish-American War, he wrote about the troops embarkation from Tampa, Florida, the Army landing at Daiquiri and Siboney, the condition of the Cuban and Spanish armies, the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, a visit to Morro Castle in Havana Harbor and the fleet's triumphal and feted return to New York Navy Yard after the end of hostilities in August 1898.

In July 1898 with her husband and their four year old, Boris, they visited St Petersburg at the invitation of Nikolai II of Russia, and Marie Louise made a success of the visit.

In 1898 he went to Barcelona to visit his uncle, Emili Gaissert, who was living there.

In the winter of 1898 – 1899, in consequence of the fatigue incurred in a journey to the Caspian and back, on a visit to the sick-bed of one of his two sons, Hunter was stricken down by a severe attack of influenza, which affected his heart.

In 1898, she decided to take a trip to America with her sister to visit extended family.

After the 1898 visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, one of the Kaiser's traveling companions, Colonel Joseph Freiherr von Ellrichshausen, initiated the formation of a society for the advancement of the German settlements in Palestine, in Stuttgart.

* A dispute concerning the financing of lighthouses led to an 1898 visit to Dubh Artach of some prominent persons, including the President of the Board of Trade and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks Beach.

* Bert Brecht ( Bertholt ), 1898 – 1956, German dramatist.

Jules Bledsoe ( 1898 – 1943 ) was a once renowned, but now semi-forgotten baritone, and the first African American artist to gain regular employment on Broadway, subsequent to Bert Williams, William Grant Still, Ford Dabney and others.

In the Spring of 1898, Phillips accompanied Blumenschein on a journey to the American West.

* Phillips Lee Goldsborough ( August 6, 1865 – October 22, 1946 ), a member of the United States Republican Party, was a United States Senator representing State of Maryland from 1929 to 1935, 47th Governor of Maryland from 1912 to 1916 and Comptroller of the Maryland Treasury from 1898 to 1900

George Phillips went to Galveston, Texas where he joined the United States Navy in March 1898.

At that time the market was leased to F. B. Phillips who agreed to surrender his lease in 1898 subject to receiving the market tolls for one year without charge.

Other Alexander triumphs included The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, by Pinero ( 1893 ); The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope ( 1896 ); As You Like It ( 1896 ); Much Ado About Nothing ( 1898 ); Paolo and Francesca, by Stephen Phillips ( 1902 ); If I were King, by Justin Huntly McCarthy ( 1902 ); Old Heidelberg, by Meyer Forster and Bleichmann ( 1903 ) and His House in Order, by Pinero ( 1906 ), to name only a few of the plays still remembered.

An 1898 issue of the " Colby Phonograph " noted that " A merchant in Phillips gives as one of the 13 reasons why people should trade with him, that he sells the genuine Steinwand Colby Cheese.

See the section on Stephen Phillips in Poets of the Younger Generation, by William Archer ( 1902 ); also the articles on Tragedy and Mr Stephen Phillips, by William Watson in the Fortnightly Review ( March 1898 ); The Poetry of Mr Stephen Phillips, in the Edinburgh Review ( January 1900 ); Mr Stephen Phillips, in the Century ( January 1901 ), by Edmund Gosse ; and Mr Stephen Phillips, in the Quarterly Review ( April 1902 ), by Arthur Symons.

Upon returning to England for the 1898 season, Phillips also called C. B. Fry, a prominent amateur cricketer and all-round sportsman, for throwing.

* 1898 – Ernest Nash, German archaeologist ( d. 1974 )

* January 6 – Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer ( b. 1898 )

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

The first English translation by Henry Vizetelly was published in 1886 and extensively revised ( to meet Victorian standards of propriety and avoid prosecution for issuing an indecent publication ) by Ernest Vizetelly in 1898, issued under the title The Fortune of the Rougons by Chatto and Windus.

In 1898, Ernest Temple Hargrove, who had initially supported Tingley, left with other members to form the Theosophical Society in America ( Hargrove ) Branch.

* Ernest Worrall ( 1898 – 1972 ), painter known for works depicting Grimsby during World War II, lived in the town from 1932 until the 1960s and taught at Wintringham Grammar School.

The business was sold in March 1898 for $ 135, 000 to a syndicate of three Toronto businessmen, Harris Henry Fudger, Joseph Flavelle, and Alfred Ernest Ames.

These include ` The White House ' in North Avenue designed in a variation of the Arts & Crafts style by Ernest Gimson in 1898 and 22 Avenue Road, designed in the modernist style by Fello Atkinson and Brenda Walker of James Cubitt and Partners in 1953.

Ernest Hayes ( British Army soldier ), born 1898 in Gripps Cottage, Cotgrave.

In 1898, a group of roughly 200 theosophists led by Ernest Temple Hargrove seceded from Tingley's organization, and formed a rival group based in New York City.

Ernest Abraham Hart ( 26 June 1835 – 7 January 1898 ) was an English medical journalist.