1897-1899 жылдардың маңызды оқиғалары

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January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, J'Accuse !, is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper L'Aurore, accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. February 15 – Spanish–American War: The Maine explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 men. The event precipitates the United States' declaration of war on Spain, two months later. February 23 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France, after writing J'Accuse !. March 1 – Vladimir Lenin creates the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. March 14 – Association football and sports club BSC Young Boys is established in Bern, Switzerland, as the Fussballclub Young Boys. March 16 – In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopt a constitution, which will become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia. March 24 – Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, becomes the first person to buy an American built automobile, when he buys a Winton automobile that has been advertised in Scientific American. March 26 – The Sabie Game Reserve in South Africa is created, as the first officially designated game reserve.

October 1 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business is founded, under the name [[Imperial and royal. October 3 – Battle of Sugar Point: Ojibwe tribesmen defeat U. S. government troops, in northern Minnesota. October 3–8 – The Stuttgart Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany is held in Stuttgart. October 6 – The Sinfonia Club, later to become the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston by Ossian Everett Mills. October 12 – The first town council is established in Mateur, Tunisia. October 15 – The Fork Union Military Academy is founded, in Fork Union, Virginia. October 31 – The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem, is dedicated. November 5 – Negros Revolution: Filipinos on the island of Negros revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short lived Republic of Negros. November 10 – The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, a coup d'état by the white Democratic Party of North Carolina, begins. November 26 – A two day blizzard known as the Portland Gale piles snow in Boston, severely impacting the Massachusetts fishing industry and several coastal New England towns. December 9 – The first of the two Tsavo Man Eaters is shot by John Henry Patterson; the second is killed 3 weeks later, after 135 railway construction workers have been killed by the lions. December 10 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish–American War. December 18 – Gaston de Chasseloup Laubat sets the first official land speed record in an automobile, averaging over in France. December 26 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of an element that they name radium. December 29 (December 17 Old Style) – The Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov opens. December 31 – French serial killer Joseph Vacher is executed at Bourg en Bresse.

North Petherton becomes the first community in England to install acetylene lighting. Wakita is founded in the Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma. Henry Adams Consulting Engineers founded by Henry Adams in Baltimore, Maryland (the firm will still be in business in the 21st century). The first volume of the Linguistic Survey of India is published in Calcutta. As a result of the merger of several small oil companies, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company controls 84% of the USA's oil, and most American pipelines. JG Palmer is established as a newspaper wholesaler in Kent.

I. K. Taimni, Indian chemist (d. 1978)
William Wardsworth, Liberian politician (d. 1977)

Sotirios Sotiropoulos, Greek economist, politician (b. 1831)