WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1898
Find out what all happened February to December 1898

The first games of the Italian football league system are played. (8. May 1898)

Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film. (13. September 1898)

Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China. (21. September 1898)

Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict. (10. December 1898)

The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only instance of an attempted coup d'etat in American history. (8. November 1898)

Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni. (10. September 1898)

Spanish–American War: The Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba. (3. July 1898)

The Hundred Days' Reform is started by Guangxu Emperor with a plan to change social, political and educational institutions in China, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. The failed reform though led to the abolition of Imperial Examination in 1905. (11. June 1898)

France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident. (3. November 1898)

Spanish-American War: The Battle of Manila Bay – the United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war. (1. May 1898)

700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece. (25. August 1898)

Spanish-American War: The USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship. (22. April 1898)

Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus. (23. February 1898)

Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mph (63.159 km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car (18. December 1898)

Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found. (13. August 1898)

The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States. (12. August 1898)

Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team. (2. November 1898)

Dreyfus affair: Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse. (7. February 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. (25. July 1898)

United States takes possession of Puerto Rico. (18. October 1898)