Copley Medal
Awarded the Copley Medal from the Royal Society
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1898 in Great Britain — Page 2
Explore 56 historical events and records for Great Britain in 1898.
Historical records for Great Britain in 1898
Sorted by month and day. Records with no month are shown last. Showing 16 of 56 unique records.
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Death of William Ewart Gladstone
Death of William Ewart Gladstone
Discovery of Krypton
Discovers krypton while fractionating liquefied air and helps establish a new family of chemically unreactive elements.
Discovery of Neon
Discovers neon in liquefied air and adds another chemically inert element to the emerging noble-gas family of the periodic table.
Discovery of Xenon
Discovers xenon as a heavy constituent of liquefied air and further completes the noble-gas group of the periodic table.
First Forest FA Cup Final Scorer
Arthur Capes scored for Nottingham Forest as the club beat Derby County 3-1 in the 1898 FA Cup final at Crystal Palace. His contribution helped secure the first major cup triumph in Forest's history.
Lord Chamberlain
Appointed Lord Chamberlain
Masonry Dam Structural Planning Advanced
Benjamin Baker provided senior engineering input for the masonry barrage and its supporting works.
Original Aswan Dam Building Starts
John Aird's contracting firm began work on the original masonry dam across the Nile near Aswan.
Peerage
Created Earl of Halsbury and Viscount Tiverton, of Tiverton in the County of Devon
Rule of Nigeria
Britain purchases the Royal Niger Company
Sheffield United First Division Championship
Wostinholm guided Sheffield United to the English First Division title, the only top-flight league championship in the club's history.
Sudan Campaign Service
Undertakes military service in the Sudan Campaign
The Story of the Malakand Field Force
Churchill published his first book, a military history of the British campaign on India's northwest frontier.
The War of the Worlds
Publication of "The War of the Worlds"
Wireless Telegram Experiment
Sends a wireless telegram to colleague George Gabriel Stokes during experiments in Glasgow.
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