- 1898 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1898 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , ConservativeEvents
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12 February - Henry Lindfield, dies inBrighton , becoming the world's first fatality from an automobile accident.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*15 February - The1898 World Figure Skating Championships held inLondon .
*8 April -Mahdist War : British andEgypt ian victory at theBattle of Atbara .
*9 June - Signature of theConvention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory withQing Dynasty China leasingHong Kong for 99 years.
*14 June - Treaty with France establishes borders between French colonies andNigeria and the Gold Coast.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 326-327|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*12 August - Elected county and district councils established inIreland .
*2 September - Mahdist War: At theBattle of Omdurman , British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in theSudan .
*19 September to4 November -Fashoda incident - diplomatic dispute betweenFrance and the United Kingdom.Undated
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North Petherton becomes the first town in England to installAcetylene lighting.
*William Ramsay andMorris Travers discover thenoble gas esneon ,krypton ,xenon andargon .Publications
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Henry James ' novella "The Turn of the Screw ".
*H. G. Wells ' novel "The War of the Worlds ".
*Oscar Wilde 's poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol ".Births
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9 January -Gracie Fields , singer and comedian (died 1979)
*28 February -Hugh O'Flaherty , Irish Catholic priest (died 1963)
*26 April -John Grierson , documentary filmmaker (died 1972)
*6 June -Ninette de Valois , Irish dancer and founder of The Royal Ballet, London (died 2001)
*3 July -Donald Healey , motor engineer and race car driver (died 1988)
*4 July -Gertrude Lawrence , actress (died 1952)
*30 July -Henry Moore , sculptor (died 1986)
*29 November -C. S. Lewis , author (died 1963)
*27 December -W. C. Sellar , humourist (died 1951)Deaths
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14 January -Lewis Carroll , writer, mathematician (born 1832)
*16 January -Charles Pelham Villiers longest-serving MP in theBritish House of Commons (born 1802)
*18 January - Henry George Lidell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (born 1811)
*1 March -George Bruce Malleson , officer and author (born 1825)
*15 March -Henry Bessemer , engineer and inventor (born 1813)
*16 March -Aubrey Beardsley , artist (born 1872)
*19 May -William Ewart Gladstone ,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1809)
*3 June -Samuel Plimsoll , politician and social reformer (born 1824)
*17 June -Edward Burne-Jones , painter and designer (born 1833
*2 November -George Goyder , surveyor-general ofSouth Australia (born 1826)References
ee also
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