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1898
Events
January–March
January 1
–
New York City
annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York, the world's second largest at this time. 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
electric car
belonging to Henry Lindfield of
Brighton
runs away on a hill in
Purley, London
, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on the
public highway
.
February 15
–
Spanish–American War
: The
USS Maine
explodes and sinks in
Havana
harbor,
Cuba
, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 men. This event helps lead the United States to declare war on Spain.
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 Sabi Game Reserve in South Africa, the first officially designated
game reserve
, is created.
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