Timeline September 1898

Events in September 1898 6

• 1837 – 1898 Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898) Assassinated 10 September 1898, aged 60 Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, was stabbed to death by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni while walking beside Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Her death shocked European royal courts and made her one of the most romanticized figures of the Habsburg monarchy. She had been Empress consort of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary for over four decades.
• 1837 – 1898 Empress Elisabeth (Sisi) The Tragic Empress The beloved but rebellious Empress known for her beauty and tragic assassination in Geneva.
• 1842 – 1898 Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) Died 9 September 1898, aged 56 Stephane Mallarme was a leading French Symbolist poet whose dense, allusive style influenced generations of modern poetry. His major works include L'Apres-midi d'un faune and Un Coup de Des. He died at his home in Valvins on 9 September 1898.
• 1898 Hundred Days' Reform ends in coup Empress Dowager Cixi halts the Guangxu Emperor's reform program China's Guangxu Emperor launched sweeping modernization reforms on 11 June 1898, covering education, the military and administration. Conservative officials backed Empress Dowager Cixi in a coup on 21 September 1898 that placed the emperor under house arrest and reversed most of the edicts. Several reform leaders were executed and others, including Kang Youwei, fled abroad.
• 1898 Battle of Omdurman Anglo-Egyptian force crushes the Mahdist army in Sudan On 2 September 1898, General Herbert Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian army defeated the Mahdist forces of Abdullah al-Taashi outside Omdurman, Sudan. Superior artillery and machine guns inflicted overwhelming casualties on the Mahdist ranks. The victory completed Britain's reconquest of Sudan and avenged the death of General Gordon in 1885.
• 1898 Fashoda Incident British and French forces face off in Sudan over colonial claims British and French expeditions under Kitchener and Jean-Baptiste Marchand met at Fashoda on the White Nile in September 1898, each claiming the territory for their empire. The standoff brought Britain and France close to war before France ordered Marchand's withdrawal on 3 November 1898. The crisis marked the effective end of French ambitions in the Nile valley.