Hawaii Annexed
July 7, 1898
Congress passed a joint resolution annexing the Hawaiian Islands. Queen Liliuokalani, the deposed monarch, protested in a dignified letter to Washington that was ignored. The strategic value of Pearl Harbor - soon an American naval base - had trumped the scruples of five years earlier. The United States was now a Pacific power.
In context
Also in 1898 (9 other events on record)
- Spanish-American War · North America · War
- Curies Discover Radium · Europe · Science
- Battle of Omdurman · Africa · War
- Hundred Days Reform Fails · East Asia · Politics
- J'accuse · Europe · Politics
- USS Maine Explodes · North America · War
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.