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.

She was born in Hongkou District, Shanghai, China, on March 5, 1898, though some biographies give the year as 1897, since Chinese tradition considers one to be a year old at birth.

However, the Court did uphold some economic regulation such as state prohibition laws ( Mugler v. Kansas ), laws declaring maximum hours for mine workers ( Holden v. Hardy, 1898 ), laws declaring maximum hours for female workers ( Muller v. Oregon, 1908 ), President Wilson's intervention in a railroad strike ( Wilson v. New, 1917 ), as well as federal laws regulating narcotics ( United States v. Doremus, 1919 ).

That success spanned some major changes for the Saints as they moved to a newly-built £ 10, 000 stadium called The Dell, to the North-West of the city centre in 1898.

* 1898: A notice advertising sale of an area of land east of Cain's Lane says that " Earl Strafford " ( George Byng, 3rd Earl of Strafford ( 1830 – 1898 ) or Henry Byng, 4th Earl of Strafford ( 1831 – 1899 )) owned some adjacent land that in the 1819 map was marked as belonging to George Byng, Esq.

Here are some quotes from the 1898 historical account of Reynolds in a book named " The History of the Orphan Brigade " written by Ed Porter Miller:

Madison annexed additional portions of Chatham Township in 1891, and annexed more each year from 1894 – 1898, followed finally, by an exchange of some lands in 1899 with Chatham Township.

It was manufactured by the German born ( Adorf im Vogtland ) maker Roth of Milan and was introduced around 1900, but found no popular acceptance, even in Italy ( some instruments may be labeled Bottali, as Antonio Bottali was Ferdinando Roth's son-in-law and took over the company after Roth's death in 1898 ).

The city was extended to take in some Gloucestershire suburbs in 1898 and 1904.

There is ample geographic and geological evidence that floods have occurred throughout the valley since prehistoric times, and there is historic evidence in diaries, anecdotes, folk tales, letters, official records, post cards, and the like that major flooding occurred with some regularity 1828, 1832, 1847, 1866, 1883, 1897, 1898, 1907.

On the 7th of September 1898, Thomas and some friends were surf bathing at Montauk Point.

Harry Crosby ( June 4, 1898 – December 10, 1929 ) was an American heir, a bon vivant, poet, publisher, and for some, epitomized the Lost Generation in American literature.

Building work started in 1895: the new line, some 92 miles ( 147 km ) in length, opened for coal traffic on 25 July 1898 ; for passenger traffic on 15 March 1899, and for goods traffic on 11 April 1899.

Although highly regarded by some scholars, Minakata sometimes experienced discrimination because of his ethnicity, the cause for his frequent reckless behaviors leading up to the departure from the British Museum in December 1898.

Mahler made some major revisions for the second performance, given at Hamburg in October 1893 ; further alterations were made in the years prior to the first publication, in late 1898.

The year 1898 in literature involved some significant new books.

Buckingham wrote occasional verses, pamphlets, lampoons, satires and plays showing undoubted ( but undeveloped ) poetic gifts, a collection of which, containing however many pieces not from his pen, was first published by Tom Brown in 1704 ; while a few extracts from a commonplace book of Buckingham of some interest are given in an article in the Quarterly Review of January 1898.

His later novels include La Terre promise ( 1892 ); Cosmopolis ( 1892 ), a psychological novel, with Rome as a background ; Une Idylle tragique ( 1896 ); La Duchesse bleue ( 1897 ); Le Fantôme ( 1901 ); Les Deux Sœurs ( 1905 ); and some volumes of shorter stories — Complications sentimentales ( 1896 ), the powerful Drames de famille ( 1898 ), and Un Homme d ' affaires ( 1900 ).

Between 1882 and 1898, Russification in language, appointments, etc., was imposed, with some exceptions ( such as the Divinity School, which the state feared would be used by the Orthodox clergy to teach dangerous Protestant views and was thus was allowed to continue in German until 1916 ).

Puerto Rico and ( and some smaller islands ) became permanent possessions, as did Alaska, added by purchase in 1867, and the independent Republic of Hawaii, was annexed to the United States in 1898.

In 1898 a resolution was passed by the Colonial Hong Kong Legislative Council to preserve the land where some of the caves stood.

Probably his most popular short narrative among today's readers, " The Turn of the Screw " ( 1898 ) is a ghost story that has lent itself well to operatic and film adaptation.

He would not have visited The Club in any capacity other than as a ghost if it was built in 1898, since his death at the hands of John Wilkes Booth preceded that by more than 30 years.

Although the townsite is now abandoned, the road is passable to allow access to the historic ghost town of Fortymile, which was itself abandoned around 1898 when Dawson City boomed.

On March 3, 1923, in Havana, Cuba, Nin married her first husband, Hugh Parker Guiler ( 1898 – 1985 ), a banker and artist, later known as " Ian Hugo " when he became a maker of experimental films in the late 1940s.

The French surgeon Eugène-Louis Doyen started a series of surgical films sometime before July 1898.

Between July 1898 and 1901 the Romanian professor Gheorghe Marinescu made several science films in his neurology clinic in Bucharest: The walking troubles of organic hemiplegy ( 1898 ), The walking troubles of organic paraplegies ( 1899 ), A case of hysteric hemiplegy healed through hypnosis ( 1899 ), The walking troubles of progressive locomotion ataxy ( 1900 ) and Illnesses of the muscles ( 1901 ).

By 1898 Georges Méliès was the largest producer of fiction films in France, and from this point onwards his output was almost entirely films featuring trick effects, which were very successful in all markets.

The first known of these was a film shot by a Lumière cameraman from the back platform of a train leaving Jerusalem in 1896, and by 1898 there were a number of films shot from moving trains.

In 1898 a few films of similar kind were made, but still none had continuous action moving from one shot into the next.

From 1898 American producer Charles Urban expanded the London-based Warwick Trading Company to produce British films, mostly documentary and news.

The Katzenjammer Kids characters initially appeared outside of comics in a handful of live-action silent films, the first released in 1898.

The earliest known propaganda film was a series of short silent films made during the Spanish American War in 1898 created by Vitagraph Studios.

The novel of When Knighthood Was in Flower, by Edwin Caskoden ( the pen name of Charles Major ) was published in 1898, and was the source material for both the Davies and the Disney films.

Bessie Love ( September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986 ) was an American motion picture actress who achieved prominence mainly in the silent films and early talkies.

Tian Han (; March 12, 1898 — December 10, 1968 ), born in Changsha, Hunan, was a Chinese drama activist, playwright, a leader of revolutionary music and films, as well as a translator and poet.

: List of Czechoslovak films 1898 – 1990

The first short films in India were directed by Hiralal Sen, starting with The Flower of Persia ( 1898 ).

Film historians disagree as to which filmmaker first used a close-up, but one of the best claims is for George Albert Smith in Hove, who used medium close-ups in films as early as 1898 and by 1900 was incorporating extreme close-ups in films such as As Seen Through a Telescope and Grandma's Reading Glass.

Between July 1898 and 1901, the Marinescu made the first science films in the world in his clinic in Bucharest: The walking troubles of organic hemiplegy ( 1898 ), The walking troubles of organic paraplegies ( 1899 ), A case of hysteric hemiplegy healed through hypnosis ( 1899 ), The walking troubles of progressive locomotion ataxy ( 1900 ) and Illnesses of the muscles ( 1901 ).

Robert Keith ( February 10, 1898 – December 22, 1966 ) was an American stage and film actor who appeared in several dozen films, mostly in the 1950s as a character actor.

Category: 1898 films

Many of Smith's films were acquired for distribution by Charles Urban for the Warwick Trading Company and the two began a long business relationship with a joint show of Smith and Méliès ' films at the Alhambra Theatre, Brighton in late 1898 and early 1899.