However, there are some problems with Bacardi's account, as the Spanish-American war was fought in 1898, Cuba's liberation was in 1898, and the Rough Riders left Cuba in September 1898, but Coca-Cola was not available in Cuba until 1900.

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

He negotiated boundary treaties with Liberia and the United Kingdom ( for the Gold Coast ) and later started the campaign against Samori Ture, a Malinké chief, who fought against the French until 1898.

Soldiers from Fort Snelling fought in the Indian Wars and the Spanish American War of 1898.

In 1898, he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers in the Spanish-American War and fought in Cuba.

The Battle of Santiago de Cuba, fought between Spain and the United States on 3 July 1898, was the largest naval engagement of the Spanish-American War and resulted in the destruction of the Spanish Navy's Caribbean Squadron.

The Philippine Revolution started in Ambos Camarines when Elias Angeles and Feliz Plazo, Filipino corporals in the Spanish Army, sided with revolutionists and fought the local Spanish forces on September 17, 1898.

Later in 1898, when the Americans landed on the beach of Catarman, they organized a revolutionary army led by General Vicente Lukban who fought the invaders armed with cannons and rifles with only bolos and " paltiks ".

Since moving to Bury the Lancashire Fusiliers were part, in 1898, of the force that relieved Khartoum and fought in the Battle of Omdurman and in 1899 – 1902 during the Boer War took part in the battles of Spion Kop and the Tugela Heights, leading up to the Relief of Ladysmith.

Don Carlos Buell ( March 23, 1818 – November 19, 1898 ) was a career United States Army officer who fought in the Seminole War, the Mexican-American War, and the American Civil War.

Temporary volunteers and state militia units mostly fought the Spanish-American War of 1898.

During the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898, USRC Hugh McCulloch fought with the American fleet under Admiral George Dewey.

In 1898, he transferred back to Egypt and fought at the Battle of Omdurman and commanded the British troops during the Fashoda incident.

At the coming of the American fleet of Admiral Dewey and the famous naval battle of Manila Bay in May 1898, which defeated the Spanish forces under Admiral Montojo, the people of Dasmariñas under the leadership of Placido Campos, fought and drove away the Spaniards occupying the town.

On July 26, 1898, Spanish forces and Puerto Rican volunteers, led by Captain Salvador Meca and Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Puig fought against the American forces led by Brigadier General George A. Garretson.

A major battle was fought beside the river in April 1898 between forces of the Khalifa of Sudan and the British Empire, which resulted in the Khalifa's 20, 000-strong detachment being destroyed by the British.

Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer KG, GCB, GCMG, KBE, DSO ( 11 September 1898 – 25 October 1979 ) was a British military commander who fought in both World Wars.

The Battle of Guantánamo Bay was fought from June 6 to June 10 in 1898, during the Spanish-American War, when American and Cuban forces seized the strategically and commercially important harbor of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

It was the first of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Little War ( 1879 – 1880 ) and the Cuban War of Independence ( 1895 – 1898 ).

The Second Battle of Cárdenas was a secondary naval engagement of the Spanish – American War fought on 11 May 1898 in the port of Cárdenas, Cuba, between an American squadron of 5 ships under Captain Chapman C. Todd and 3 small Spanish vessels under Mariano Mateu.

The Battle of El Caney was fought on July 1, 1898, during the Spanish-American War.

In 1898 the regiment fought at Atbara and Omdurman during Lord Kitchener's reconquest of the Sudan and saw service in the Second Boer War at Johannesburg, Diamond Hill and Belfast.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

* 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.

In 1898, Carnegie tried to arrange for independence for the Philippines.

Astronomers use the Julian calendar for years before 1582, including this year 0, and the Gregorian calendar for years after 1582 as exemplified by Jacques Cassini ( 1740 ), Simon Newcomb ( 1898 ) and Fred Espenak ( 2007 ).

" In a speech given to the Norwegian Women's Rights League in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he " must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement ," since he wrote " without any conscious thought of making propaganda ," his task having been " the description of humanity.

* Louis Wolff ( 1898 – 1972 ), known for Wolff – Parkinson – White syndrome

From 1750 to 1898 the Chief Magistrate was the administrating official for the dependency, appointed by the Jamaican governor.

In 1898 the Governor of Jamaica began appointing a Commissioner for the Islands.

The one who did the most to help Peirce in these desperate times was his old friend William James, dedicating his Will to Believe ( 1897 ) to Peirce, and arranging for Peirce to be paid to give two series of lectures at or near Harvard ( 1898 and 1903 ).

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.

The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

Joshua Slocum was one of the first people to carry out a long-distance sailing voyage for pleasure, circumnavigating the world between 1895 and 1898.

By 1898, the family was self-sustaining with suitable accommodations for their large family.

In 1894 and 1895 he filed patents and addenda in various countries for his Diesel engine ; the first patents were issued in Spain ( No. 16, 654 ), France ( No. 243, 531 ) and Belgium ( No. 113, 139 ) in December 1894, and in Germany ( No. 86, 633 ) in 1895 and the United States ( No. 608, 845 ) in 1898.

Once again Kitchener commended Beatty for his efforts in the campaign and as a result Hood and Beatty were both promoted to Commander on 15 November 1898.

Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

A typical custom-made encyclopedia engraving by Maurice Dessertenne for the Nouveau Larousse illustré ( France, 1898 – 1907 )

Pope Leo 13, on the 13th day of December 1898, granted the following indulgences: `` An indulgence of three hundred days is granted to all the Faithful who read the Holy Gospels at least a quarter of an hour.

In 1898 he went back to Paris to write a PhD dissertation on The Religious Philosophy of Kant at the Sorbonne, and to study in earnest with Widor.

The armed car was invented by Royal Page Davidson at Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in 1898 with the Davidson-Duryea gun carriage and the later Davidson Automobile Battery armored car.

He married fourthly at the Dolmabahçe Palace, Constantinople, on 21 September 1866 to Georgian HH Hayranidil Kadın Efendi ( Kars, 2 November 1846 – Ortaköy Palace, Constantinople, 26 November 1898 ), and had two children.

He eclipsed the long-standing record of 51. 88 per cent by the South African J. H. Sinclair ( 106 out of 177 and 4 out of 35 ) against England at Cape Town in an 1898 – 1899 series.

This intrigue finally led Harcourt and Morley to resign their positions in 1898 as they continued to be at loggerheads with Rosebery over Irish home rule and issues relating to imperialism.

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

He was briefly reunited with his mother at nine years old, before Hannah was forced to readmit her family to the workhouse in July 1898.

Cassandra by Evelyn De Morgan ( 1898, London ); Cassandra in front of the burning city of Troy at the peak of her insanity.

* In 1898, the Unamended Fellowship was separated from as a result of differing views on who would be raised to judgment at the return of Christ.

In 1898 Beatty returned from leave after the Sudan campaign, but finding life in Ireland at the family home not to his taste, stayed instead with his brother at Newmarket.

In 1898, Fritz Haber showed that definite reduction products can result from electrolytic processes if the potential at the cathode is kept constant.

In 1898, he explained the reduction of nitrobenzene in stages at the cathode and this became the model for other similar reduction processes.

Yahgan Indians were at this station from 1856 to 1898 and may be the source of the discovered artifacts.

The Savoy Hotel managed by César Ritz was an early hotel Escoffier worked at, but much of his influence came during his management of the kitchens in the Carlton from 1898 until 1921.

He was a researcher at Oxford from 1898 to 1900.

The first performance of the four works was on 7 April 1898, at the Grande Opéra, Paris.

Nationalist movements emerged in the last significant remnants of the old empire ( Cuba and the Philippines ) which led to a brief war with the United States ( 1898 ) and the loss of the remaining old colonies at the end of the century.

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 – After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U. S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.