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Enrique Granados completes the ten piano pieces forming his Danzas españolas
Keir Hardie is returned to parliament for Merthyr Tydfil, beginning a long and close link between the Labour party and Wales.
The relief of Mafeking ends a long siege which brings fame to the British commander of the garrison, Robert Baden-Powell
Rubber brings prosperity to Manaus, thousands of miles up the Amazon
After a prodigiously productive career as novelist and journalist, Stephen Crane dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28
Hostility to foreign intrusion erupts in China with the Boxer Rising
Harvey Firestone sets up the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio
Joshua Slocum publishes Sailing Alone Around the World, an account of his famous 1895-8 circumnavigation
The Bayer company in Germany sells aspirin in the form of water-soluble tablets, the first medication of its kind
Ferdinand Zeppelin's first dirigible makes its test flight from a floating hangar on the Lake of Constance
Charles Stewart Rolls wins the Automobile Club's Thousand Mile Trial in a 12 horse-power Panhard
Jack London's first collection of stories, The Son of the Wolf, brings him a wide readership
The British government assumes direct responsibility for the entire region of Nigeria, previously entrusted to a commercial company
Jean Sibelius's Finlandia stirs national instincts in Helsinki
Theodore Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie, receives no publicity because his publisher, Frank Doubleday, considers it immoral
Sigmund Freud publishes one of his most significant works, The Interpretation of Dreams
Australia's Salvation Army produces an ambitious presentation of film and slides in Soldiers of the Cross
The Irish Parliamentary Party, which split after the Parnell divorce case, reunites under the leadership of John Redmond
More than 8000 people die when a hurricane demolishes the seaside resort of Galveston in Texas
Queen Victoria gives permission for the newly founded National Physical Laboratory to move into Bushy House and its grounds
The American League emerges from baseball's Western League, before going national in 1901
The Voice of the People is the first of Ellen Glasgow's novels set in her native state, Virginia
Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya is directed by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre
Wilbur and Orville Wright test a biplane glider at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina
In the US presidential election William McKinley wins a second term on a simple platform, promising 'the full dinner pail'
