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This poster combines two propaganda themes, humanitarian imperialism and outrage over an alleged Spanish sneak attack on the USS Maine, to justify the US conquest of Cuba.
year 1897

Events

• February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS 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 16 – In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopt a constitution, which will become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.
• April 25 – Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain; the U.S. Congress announces that a state of war has existed since April 21 (later backdating this one more day to April 20).
• May 7–9 – Bava Beccaris massacre: Hundreds of demonstrators are killed, when General Fiorenzo Bava Beccaris orders troops to fire on a rally in Milan, Italy.
• May 12 – Spanish–American War: The Puerto Rican Campaign begins, with the Bombardment of San Juan.
• May 27 – The territory of Kwang-Chou-Wan is leased by China to France, according to the Treaty of 12 April 1892, as the Territoire de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan, forming part of French Indochina.
• June 9 – The British government arranges a 99-year rent of Hong Kong from China.
• June 12 – Philippine Declaration of Independence: After more than 377 years of Spanish dominance, General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
• June 21 – Spanish–American War: The United States captures Guam, making it the first U.S. overseas territory.
• June 28 – Effective date of the Curtis Act of 1898 which will lead to the dissolution of tribal and communal lands in Indian Territory and ultimately the creation of the State of Oklahoma in 1907.
• July 1 – Spanish–American War: Battle of San Juan Hill – United States troops (including Buffalo Soldiers and Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders) take a strategic position close to Santiago de Cuba from the Spanish.
• July 7 – The United States annexes the Hawaiian Islands.
• July 25 – Spanish–American War: The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins, with a landing at Guánica Bay.
• August 12 – Spanish–American War: Hostilities end between American and Spanish forces in Cuba.
• August 13 – Spanish–American War: Battle of Manila – By prior agreement, the Spanish commander surrenders the city of Manila to the United States, in order to keep it out of the hands of Filipino rebels, ending hostilities in the Philippines.
• August 28 – American pharmacist Caleb Bradham names his soft drink Pepsi-Cola.
• September 2 – 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.
• September 10 – Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni assassinates Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Geneva, as an act of propaganda of the deed.
• September 18 – Fashoda Incident: A powerful flotilla of British gunboats arrives at the French-occupied fort of Fashoda on the White Nile, leading to a diplomatic stalemate, until French troops are ordered to withdraw on November 3.
• September 21 – factions using the hapless Empress Dowager Cixi as a front engineers a coup d'état in China, marking the end of the Hundred Days' Reform; the Guangxu Emperor is arrested.

• October 1 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business is founded, under the name K.U.K. Exportakademie.
• October 3–8 – The Stuttgart Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany is held in Stuttgart.
• November 10 – The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, a coup d'état by the white Democratic Party of North Carolina, begins.
• December 10 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish–American War.
• December 26 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of an element that they name radium.

Unknown dates

• 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.

 

Events

Event
Pax Brittanica
Dreyfus Affair

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
DePaul University		Military ranks	Catholic, with emphasis on recruiting students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Northeastern University		Military ranks
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute			Ukrainian polytechnic university
PepsiCo			U.S. Multinational corporation
Vienna University of Economics and Business

 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary
William Gladstone	29 December 1809	19 May 1898	Wales Hawarden Castle
Otto von Bismarck	1 April 1815	30 July 1898	Germany Friedrichsruh Schleswig-Holstein	Deep politician
Clinton Roosevelt	3 November 1804	8 August 1898	New York US	Activist Politician Inventor

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Hugh Bullock	1898		November 1996	Financier	President of the US Pilgrims Society for 41 years, no Wikipedia entry as of 2015.
Ralph McGill	5 February 1898		3 February 1969	Journalist	US journalist who wrote against racial segregation. Attended the 1957 February Bilderberg
Enrico Anzilotti	8 February 1898	Italy Florence	1983	Diplomat	Governor of Italian Somaliland from 1957-1958. Attended the 1959 Bilderberg
David Bruce	12 February 1898	Maryland Baltimore	5 December 1977	Diplomat Spook Politician	spooky US diplomat
Briton Hadden	18 February 1898		27 February 1929		Co-founder of Time Magazine.
Gerald L. K. Smith	27 February 1898	Wisconsin Pardeeville	15 April 1976	Clergy
Chou En-lai	5 March 1898	Jiangsu Huai'an Qing China	8 January 1976	Diplomat Deep politician
Henry Luce	3 April 1898	China Tengchow	28 February 1967	Editor Publisher
Paul Robeson	9 April 1898		23 January 1976	Activist Singer	US artist and activist possibly poisoned by the CIA
Eugene R. Black	1 May 1898	United States Georgia Atlanta	20 February 1992	Central banker	Attended the Bilderberg/1957 February as President of the World Bank Group
Golda Meir	3 May 1898	Ukraine Russian Empire Kiev	8 December 1978	Politician
George Rufus Brown	12 May 1898		22 January 1983	Businessperson
Brewster Jennings	9 June 1898		2 October 1968	Businessperson
Isidor Rabi	29 July 1898	Austria-Hungary Icia	11 January 1988	Physicist
Brooks Hays	9 August 1898	London Arkansas	11 October 1981	Politician	Attended the February 1957 Bilderberg meeting as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Paul Raigorodsky	25 August 1898	Russia	14 March 1977
Gerald Templer	11 September 1898		25 October 1979
R. Gordon Wasson	22 September 1898		23 December 1986	Author Banker Ethnomycologist
Pietro Quaroni	3 October 1898		11 June 1971	Diplomat Spook	One of a dozen men whom Józef Retinger consulted when setting up the Bilderberg group
Theobald Mathew	4 November 1898		29 February 1964	Lawyer
Morgan J. Davis	18 November 1898	Texas Anson	31 December 1979
Nathan Silvermaster	27 November 1898	Russia Odessa	7 October 1964	Spook
Ernst Fraenkel	26 December 1898		28 March 1975	Academic
Edwin Kennedy Wright	28 December 1898		3 September 1983	Spook Banker Pilot

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