1898 in the United Kingdom

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1898 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1898 in the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[edit] Events

• 12 February - Henry Lindfield, dies in Brighton, becoming the world's first fatality from an automobile accident. ^[1]
• 2 September - Battle of Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops led by Horatio Kitchener defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
• Fashoda incident - diplomatic dispute between France and the United Kingdom.
• North Petherton becomes the first town in England to install Acetylene lighting.
• William Ramsay and Morris Travers discover the noble gases neon, krypton, xenon and argon.

[edit] Births

• 28 February - Hugh O'Flaherty, Irish Catholic priest (d. 1963)
• 26 April - John Grierson, documentary filmmaker (d. 1972)
• 6 June - Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer and founder of The Royal Ballet, London (d. 2001)
• 3 July - Donald Healey, motor engineer and race car driver (d. 1988)
• 30 July - Henry Moore, sculptor (d. 1986)
• 29 November - C. S. Lewis, author (d. 1963)

[edit] Deaths

• 9 January - Gracie Fields, singer and comedian (d. 1979)
• 14 January - Lewis Carroll, writer, mathematician (b. 1832)
• 16 January - Charles Pelham Villiers longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
• 18 January - Henry George Lidell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (b. 1811)
• 1 March - George Bruce Malleson, officer and author (b. 1825)
• 15 March - Henry Bessemer, engineer and inventor (b. 1813)
• 16 March - Aubrey Beardsley, artist (b. 1872)
• 19 May - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
• 3 June - Samuel Plimsoll, politician and social reformer (b. 1824)
• 2 November - George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)

[edit] References