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| 1898 |
| | | The US battleship Maine is blown up in Havana harbour, sparking off the Spanish-American War | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The Hawaiian islands are made a US territory, five years after American involvement in the overthrow of the ruling dynasty | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Russian forces seize the strategically important Chinese harbour known in the west as Port Arthur | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The Philippines declare independence from the colonial power, Spain, with whom they are at war | |
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| 1898 |
| | | British chemists William Ramsay and Morris Travers isolate the element c | |
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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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