Editing 1898 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
[[File:Pepsi Cola logo 1940.svg|thumb|140px|August 28: [[Caleb Bradham]] names his soft drink  [[Pepsi-Cola]]]]
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: [[Battle of San Juan Hill]] &ndash; United States troops (including [[Buffalo Soldier]]s and [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s [[Rough Riders]]) take a strategic position close to [[Santiago de Cuba]] from the Spanish.
* [[July 3]]
** [[Spanish–American War]]: [[Battle of Santiago de Cuba]] &ndash; The [[United States Navy]] destroys the [[Spanish Navy]]'s Caribbean Squadron.
** American adventurer [[Joshua Slocum]] completes a 3-year solo [[circumnavigation]] of the world.
* [[July 4]] &ndash; En route from New York to [[Le Havre]], the ocean liner {{SS|La Bourgogne}} collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of [[Sable Island]] with the loss of 549 lives.
* [[July 7]] &ndash; The United States annexes the [[Hawaii|Hawaiian Islands]].
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: Battle of Santiago Bay. Troops under United States General [[William R. Shafter]] take the city of [[Santiago de Cuba]] from the Spanish.
* [[July 18]] &ndash; "The Adventures of [[Louis de Rougemont]]" first appear in ''[[The Wide World Magazine]]'', as its August 1898 issue goes on sale.<ref>{{cite book|first=Linda|last=Stratmann|title=Fraudsters and Charlatans: A Peek at Some of History's Greatest Rogues|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud|year=2010}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: The United States invasion of [[Puerto Rico]] begins, with a landing at [[Guánica, Puerto Rico|Guánica Bay]].
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: Hostilities end between American and Spanish forces in Cuba.
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Spanish–American War]]: [[Battle of Manila (1898)|Battle of Manila]] &ndash; 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 20]] &ndash; The [[Gornergrat railway]] opens, connecting [[Zermatt]] to the [[Gornergrat]] in Switzerland.
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama]] is founded in [[Rio de Janeiro]].
* [[August 23]] &ndash; The [[Southern Cross Expedition]], the first British venture of the [[Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration]], sets sail from London.
* [[August 24]] &ndash; Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes sign the [[Atoka Agreement]], a requirement of the [[Curtis Act of 1898]].
* [[August 25]] &ndash; 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in [[Heraklion|Heraklion, Greece]], leading to the establishment of the autonomous [[Cretan State]].
* [[August 28]] &ndash; American pharmacist [[Caleb Bradham]] names his soft drink ''[[Pepsi-Cola]]''.
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Battle of Omdurman]] ([[Mahdist War]]): British and Egyptian troops led by [[Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum|Horatio Kitchener]] defeat Sudanese tribesmen led by Khalifa Abdullah al-Taashi, thus establishing British dominance in the [[Sudan]]. 11,000 Sudanese are killed and 1,600 wounded in the battle.<ref>{{cite book|first=A. Adu|last=Boahen|title=African Perspectives on Colonialism|location=Baltimore, Md|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=1987|isbn=9780801839313|page=48}}</ref>
* [[September 10]] &ndash; Italian anarchist [[Luigi Lucheni]] assassinates [[Empress Elisabeth of Austria]] in Geneva, as an act of [[propaganda of the deed]].
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Fashoda Incident]]: A powerful [[flotilla]] of British [[gunboat]]s 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]]
** [[Empress Dowager Cixi]] of China engineers a [[coup d'état]], marking the end of the [[Hundred Days' Reform]]; the [[Guangxu Emperor]] is arrested.
** [[Geert Adriaans Boomgaard]] of [[Groningen]] in the Netherlands becomes the world's first validated [[supercentenarian]].