Biggest Events of the Year 1898

The Top Ten

1 The United States annexes Hawaii

2 Marie and Pierre Curie discover Radium

3 Treaty of Paris is signed

4 Caleb Bradham names Pepsi-Cola

5 Robert Allison buys first american car

6 The term American Empire is coined

7 First Italian football league games are played

8 2 day blizzard makes snow piles in Boston

9 New York annexes land from other counties

10 Berkel Meat Slicer Invented

The Contenders

11 First Issue of War of the Worlds Published

12 Destruction of the USS Maine

13 The Spanish-American War begins

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