Timeline March 1898

Events in March 1898 8

• 1813 – 1898 Henry Bessemer (1813-1898) Died 15 March 1898, aged 85 Henry Bessemer was an English engineer who invented the Bessemer process, the first inexpensive method for mass-producing steel from molten pig iron. His innovation underpinned the rapid industrial and railway expansion of the late 19th century. He died in London on 15 March 1898.
• 1872 – 1898 Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) Died 16 March 1898, aged 25 Aubrey Beardsley was an English illustrator known for his stark black-and-white Art Nouveau drawings, including illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome. He died of tuberculosis in Menton, France, on 16 March 1898, at age 25. His brief career left a lasting influence on graphic design and the aesthetic movement.
• 1898 – 1976 Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) Died 8 January 1976, aged 77 Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death, succumbed to bladder cancer in Beijing. His death triggered widespread public mourning that erupted into the Tiananmen Incident in April 1976. He had been a central figure in Chinese Communist Party leadership for decades.
• 1898 – 1968 Dorothy Gish (1898-1968) American actress of silent film, sister of Lillian Gish and a star of D. W. Griffith's films.
• 1898 Dorothy Gish born in Dayton Dorothy Gish is born in Dayton.
• 1898 Russia leases Port Arthur from China Convention grants Russia a naval base on the Liaodong Peninsula China and Russia signed a convention on 27 March 1898 leasing Port Arthur and the surrounding Liaodong Peninsula to Russia for 25 years. The lease gave Russia its first warm-water naval base in the Pacific and deepened foreign encroachment on Chinese territory. The arrangement later contributed to tensions that led to the Russo-Japanese War.
• 1898 German Naval Law of 1898 Reichstag approves Tirpitz's plan to build a battle fleet The German Reichstag passed the first Fleet Act on 28 March 1898, championed by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz to build a battleship navy capable of challenging British sea power. It set fixed construction targets for the German fleet over the following years. The law began the Anglo-German naval arms race that preceded the First World War.
• 1898 The German Naval Laws Berlin, Germany Tirpitz began building a battle fleet aimed squarely at Britain, on the theory that a navy strong enough to hurt the Royal Navy would buy German influence. It bought British hostility instead.