About the day » Sunday May 22, 1898Calender converter

• Alphonse Joseph GRIETENS, Leuven, 3000, Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen, België
• Burg, Rotterdam († 1898)
• Albert de Boer, Steenwijk († 1898)
• Aafje de Haart, Hoogkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Adriana Catharina de Vries Robbé, Amsterdam († 1986)
• Andrew Bille († 1978)
• Albert Spijkers, Baalder († 1955)
• Allie Rogers FRINK († 1962)
• Adriana Mastenbroek, Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Rudelsheim, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)

• Anna Fanny Dessauer (29)
• Annechien FRANS (0), Oude Pekela,Gemeente Pekela,GRONINGEN,NEDERLAND
• Charles Thomas Stearns (91), New Orleans, LA
• Caspar Looman (75), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Nijmolen (5), Woold (Winterswijk)
• Adrianus Eikmans (60), Schiedam,-
• Adriana Martina Kraal (21), Rotterdam
• Burg (0), Rotterdam
• Anna Elizabeth Smith (20)
• Anna Maria Hurkmans (29), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1891 » Johannes R. Becher, German politician, novelist, and poet († 1958)
• 1894 » Friedrich Pollock, German sociologist and philosopher († 1970)
• 1897 » Robert Neumann, German and English-speaking author († 1975)
• 1900 » Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (d.1985)
• 1901 » Maurice J. Tobin, American politician, 6th United States Secretary of Labor († 1953)
• 1902 » Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach († 1956)
• 1902 » Jack Lambert, English footballer and manager († 1940)
• 1904 » Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor († 1989)
• 1905 » Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope († 1956)
• 1905 » Tom Driberg, British politician († 1976)

• 1859 » Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
• 1861 » Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (b. 1829)
• 1868 » Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
• 1885 » Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1901 » Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869)
• 1910 » Jules Renard, French author and playwright (b. 1864)
• 1932 » Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1852)
• 1933 » Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)
• 1938 » William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1939 » Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (b. 1893)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Jacob
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Hendrika
7. Elisabeth
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Petronella
13. Grietje
14. Geertruida
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• March 16 » In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopted a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.
• June 11 » The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)
• July 8 » The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
• August 12 » The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
• August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
• September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.

The temperature on May 22, 1898 was about 22.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%.