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| 1898 |
| | | Henry James moves from London to Lamb House in Rye, Sussex, which remains his home for the rest of his life | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Theodore Roosevelt fights against the Spanish in Cuba with a volunteer regiment of cavalry, the Rough Riders | |
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| 1898 |
| | | British chemists William Ramsay and Morris Travers isolate the element neon | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Winston Churchill gallops into battle with the Twenty-First Lancers at Omdurman | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky, succeeds at the Moscow Art Theatre | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Joshua Slocum reaches Newport, Rhode Island, after sailing 46,000 miles to achieve the first solo voyage round the world | |
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| 1898 |
| | | British chemists William Ramsay and Morris Travers isolate the element xenon | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Marie Curie and her husband Pierre isolate a new element which they name polonium in honour of her native Poland | |
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| 1898 |
| | | French and British forces meet at Fashoda, in a potentially explosive incident in the scramble for Africa | |
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| 1898 |
| | | US basketball becomes a professional game with the establishment in Philadelphia of the National Basketball League | |
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