Editing 1898 (section)

===October&ndash;December===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; The [[Vienna University of Economics and Business]] is founded, under the name {{lang|la|[[Imperial and royal|K.u.K.]] Exportakademie}}.
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Battle of Sugar Point]]: Ojibwe tribesmen defeat U.S. government troops, in northern [[Minnesota]].
* [[October 6]] &ndash; The Sinfonia Club, later to become the [[Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]] fraternity, is founded at the [[New England Conservatory of Music]] in [[Boston]] by [[Ossian Everett Mills]].
* [[October 15]] &ndash; The [[Fork Union Military Academy]] is founded, in [[Fork Union, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite book|first=John S.|last=Salmon|title=A Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers|publisher=University of Virginia Press|year=1994|page=48}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] &ndash; The [[Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem]], is dedicated.
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Negros Revolution]]: Filipinos on the island of [[Negros (Philippines)|Negros]] revolt against [[Spanish East Indies|Spanish rule]] and establish the short-lived [[Republic of Negros]].
* [[November 10]] &ndash; The [[Wilmington insurrection of 1898]], a coup d'état by the white Democratic Party of North Carolina, begins.
* [[November 26]] &ndash; A two-day blizzard known as the [[Portland Gale]] piles snow in [[Boston]], severely impacting the [[Massachusetts]] fishing industry and several coastal [[New England]] towns.
* [[December 9]] &ndash; The first of the two [[Tsavo Man-Eaters]] is shot by [[John Henry Patterson (author)|John Henry Patterson]]; the second is killed 3 weeks later, after 135 railway construction workers have been killed by the lions.
* [[December 10]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Paris (1898)|Treaty of Paris]] is signed, ending the [[Spanish–American War]].
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat]] sets the first official [[land speed record]] in an automobile, averaging {{cvt|63.15|km/h}} over {{cvt|1|km}} in France.
* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Marie Curie|Marie]] and [[Pierre Curie]] announce the discovery of an element that they name ''[[radium]]''.
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull|The Moscow Art Theatre production of ''The Seagull'']] by [[Anton Chekhov]] opens.<ref>{{cite book|last=Benedetti|first=Jean|year=1999|title=Stanislavski: His Life and Art|edition=Revised|location=London|publisher=Methuen|isbn=0-413-52520-1}}</ref>
* [[December 31]] &ndash; French serial killer [[Joseph Vacher]] is executed at [[Bourg-en-Bresse]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/8353205/The-forensic-mind-of-the-original-Dr-Death.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/8353205/The-forensic-mind-of-the-original-Dr-Death.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The forensic mind of the original Dr Death|first=Liz|last=Hunt|date=March 1, 2011|work=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref>