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8 April – Mahdist War: British and Egyptian victory at the Battle of Atbara. 19 April Whitwick Colliery Disaster Killing 35 Miners Leicestershire worst mining Disaster. 30 May – William Ramsay and Morris Travers make the first of their discovery of noble gases, krypton, followed on 7 June by neon and on 12 July by xenon at University ...
Events leading to World War I. The Fashoda Incident, also known as the Fashoda Crisis (French: Crise de Fachoda), was the climax of imperialist territorial disputes between Britain and France in East Africa, occurring between 10 July to 3 November 1898. A French expedition to Fashoda on the White Nile sought to gain control of the Upper Nile ...
1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1898th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 898th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1890s decade. As of the ...
Kentucky’s victory was UK’s first win away from Lexington against an SEC foe ranked in the top 10 since Sept. 26, 1964, when coach Charlie Bradshaw’s Wildcats upset No. 1 Ole Miss 27-21 in ...
The 2008 novel After Omdurman by John Ferry is also partly set during the 1898 re-conquest of Sudan, with the book's lead character, Evelyn Winters, playing a peripheral role in the fighting. [31] The main focus of Jake Arnott 's The Devil's Paintbrush (2009) is the life of Hector MacDonald but also includes the battle and Kitchener's railway ...
List of wars: 1800–1899. This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, [6] was a coup d'état and a massacre which was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. [7] The white press in Wilmington originally described the event as a ...
1898 Gravesend by-election. 1898 Launceston by-election. 1898 Ormskirk by-election. 1898 Oxford by-election. 1898 South East Durham by-election. 1898 Stepney by-election. 1898 Wokingham by-election. 1898 Wrawby Junction rail crash.