Timeline May 1898

Events in May 1898 5

• 1809 – 1898 William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) Died 19 May 1898, aged 88 William Ewart Gladstone served four terms as British Prime Minister and was a dominant figure in Victorian politics. He championed Irish Home Rule and liberal reform throughout his career. He died at Hawarden Castle on 19 May 1898.
• 1850 – 1898 Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) Died 22 May 1898, aged 48 Edward Bellamy was an American author best known for the utopian novel Looking Backward, which imagined a socialist United States in the year 2000. The book sold millions of copies and inspired political movements advocating economic reform. He died of tuberculosis in Chicopee, Massachusetts, on 22 May 1898.
• 1898 Battle of Manila Bay US fleet destroys Spain's Pacific squadron On 1 May 1898, Commodore George Dewey's US Navy squadron destroyed the Spanish Pacific fleet in Manila Bay without losing a single American ship. The victory gave the United States control of the Philippines' capital and opened the way for American annexation of the islands. It was one of the most one-sided naval battles in history.
• 1898 – 1978 Golda Meir (1898-1978) Died 8 December 1978, aged 80 Meir served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974, the country's first and to date only female head of government. She died in Jerusalem after a long battle with lymphoma.
• 1898 – 1980 Tamara de Lempicka Art Deco · Poland Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898 – March 18, 1980) was a Polish Art Deco painter whose glamorous, stylised portraits of the wealthy elite defined the visual culture of 1920s Paris. She was rediscovered as an icon in the 1970s.