1898

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 start of 1898, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1860s  1870s  1880s  – 1890s –  1900s  1910s  1920s
Years:	1895 1896 1897 – 1898 – 1899 1900 1901

1898 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1898 MDCCCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2651
Armenian calendar	1347 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԷ
Assyrian calendar	6648
Bahá'í calendar	54–55
Balinese saka calendar	1819–1820
Bengali calendar	1305
Berber calendar	2848
British Regnal year	61 Vict. 1 – 62 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2442
Burmese calendar	1260
Byzantine calendar	7406–7407
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4594 or 4534     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4595 or 4535
Coptic calendar	1614–1615
Discordian calendar	3064
Ethiopian calendar	1890–1891
Hebrew calendar	5658–5659
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1954–1955
- Shaka Samvat	1819–1820
- Kali Yuga	4998–4999
Holocene calendar	11898
Igbo calendar	898–899
Iranian calendar	1276–1277
Islamic calendar	1315–1316
Japanese calendar	Meiji 31 (明治３１年)
Javanese calendar	1827–1828
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4231
Minguo calendar	14 before ROC 民前14年
Nanakshahi calendar	430
Thai solar calendar	2440–2441
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Bird) 2024 or 1643 or 871     — to — ས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dog) 2025 or 1644 or 872

Events

January

• January 1 – New York City creates the City of Greater New York.

February

• February 12 – Henry Lindfield dies in England, and is the first person to die from a car accident.

March

• March 24 – Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania becomes the first person to buy a car built in America.
• March 26 – The Sabi Game Reserve is created in South America, and becomes the first official game reserve.

April

• April 25 – The United States declares war on Spain.

June

• June 12 – The Republic of the Philippines declares official independence from Spain during the Spanish-American War.

Deaths

• March 16 – Aubrey Beardsley
• March 27 – Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Bahadur