World Events
Posted in 1898
- Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium. Together, they demonstrated in a major discovery that radioactivity was not the result of a chemical reaction but a property of the element or, more specifically, of the atom. In 1903 they share the Nobel Prize for Physics with Henri Becquerel.
- Boxer Rebellion in China begins.
- The United States and Spain at war over Cuba: Treaty of Paris - Cuba becomes independent, Spain cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and Philippines to USA.
- USA annexes Hawaii, Wake and Midway Islands.
- First flashlight photograph is taken.
- Oscar Wilde writes The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
- Alexander Graham Bell co-founds the National Geographic magazine.
Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium. Together, they demonstrated in a major discovery that radioactivity was not the result of a chemical reaction but a property of the element or, more specifically, of the atom. In 1903 they share the Nobel Prize for Physics with Henri Becquerel.