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:
Decades:
Years:
1898 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1898
MDCCCXCVIII
Ab urbe condita2651
Armenian calendar1347
ԹՎ ՌՅԽԷ
Assyrian calendar6648
Baháʼí calendar54–55
Balinese saka calendar1819–1820
Bengali calendar1305
Berber calendar2848
British Regnal year61 Vict. 1 – 62 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2442
Burmese calendar1260
Byzantine calendar7406–7407
Chinese calendar丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
4595 or 4388
    — to —
戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
4596 or 4389
Coptic calendar1614–1615
Discordian calendar3064
Ethiopian calendar1890–1891
Hebrew calendar5658–5659
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1954–1955
 - Shaka Samvat1819–1820
 - Kali Yuga4998–4999
Holocene calendar11898
Igbo calendar898–899
Iranian calendar1276–1277
Islamic calendar1315–1316
Japanese calendarMeiji 31
(明治31年)
Javanese calendar1827–1828
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4231
Minguo calendar14 before ROC
民前14年
Nanakshahi calendar430
Thai solar calendar2440–2441
Tibetan calendar阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
2024 or 1643 or 871
    — to —
阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
2025 or 1644 or 872

Events

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1898 world map

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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August 28: Caleb Bradham names his soft drink Pepsi-Cola

October–December

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Unknown dates

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Births

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January–March

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Gracie Fields
 
Kaj Munk
 
Sergei Eisenstein
 
Randolph Scott
 
Denjirō Ōkōchi
 
Bertolt Brecht
 
Leó Szilárd
 
Enzo Ferrari
 
Soong Mei-ling
 
Eben Dönges

April–June

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Hastings Banda
 
Paul Robeson
 
Jim Fouché

July–September

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Stefanos Stefanopoulos
 
Isidor Isaac Rabi
 
Regis Toomey
 
Leopold Infeld
 
Alfons Gorbach
 
Howard Florey
 
George Gershwin

October–December

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William O. Douglas
 
Peng Dehuai
 
Karl Ziegler
 
Gunnar Myrdal

Deaths

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January–June

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Lewis Carroll
 
Matilda Joslyn Gage
 
William Ewart Gladstone

July–December

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Otto von Bismarck
 
Theodor Fontane
 
Saint Charbel Makhluf

Date unknown

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References

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