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Gigantes y Cabezudos is an 1898 zarzuela by Manuel Fernández Caballero, revered for its deeply Spanish character, popular jota, and reflection of the era's patriotism.
The Ferry Building Clock Tower rises above the San Francisco Ferry Building on the Embarcadero, a waterfront terminal completed in 1898. The approximately 75-meter tower was designed with reference to the Giralda, the historic bell tower of Seville Cathedral in Spain, and its four clock faces are vi...
"Les Boulingrin" is a one-act comedy by the French author Georges Courteline, first performed in 1898. The play features a relentlessly quarreling married couple whose aggressive arguments escalate into a bizarre situation where they try to murder each other, only to reconcile when a hapless visitin...
The Treaty of Paris of 1898 is the peace agreement signed between the United States and Spain that officially concluded the Spanish-American War. Under the terms of the treaty, Spain relinquished sovereignty over Cuba and ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States, with the US...
SS Portland was an American sidewheel passenger steamship that operated between Boston and Portland, Maine. It sank with everyone aboard during the severe New England storm of November 1898, although the exact number of people lost remains uncertain because the passenger list was incomplete. The dis...
British passenger steamer of the Atlantic Transport Line that wrecked on the Manacles reef off Cornwall on 14 October 1898, drowning approximately 106 people.
The Battle of San Juan Hill was fought on July 1, 1898, near Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War. United States forces attacked and captured the San Juan Heights, including San Juan Hill and nearby Kettle Hill, from Spanish defenders. The fighting became closely associated with Theodore...
1898 battle in Sudan in which British-Egyptian forces under General Kitchener destroyed the Mahdist army at Omdurman, completing the reconquest of Sudan.
Fought in 1898 during the Spanish-American War in the Philippines, this naval engagement saw the American fleet destroy the Spanish squadron without losing a single ship.
Occurring in 1898 during the Spanish-American War, this naval battle off Cuba saw the United States destroy the Spanish fleet, ending Spanish colonial power in the Americas.
