1898 in Venezuela

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See also:	Other events of 1898 Years in Venezuela Timeline of Venezuelan history

Events in the year 1898 in Venezuela .

Incumbents

• President: Joaquin Crespo until February 28, Ignacio Andrade ^[1]

Births

• 9 January: Julio Garmendia (d. 1977) — writer, journalist and diplomat.
• 11 April: Conny Méndez (d. 1979) — composer, singer, essayist, cartoonist, actress and writer. ^[2]
• 19 June: Juan Bautista Plaza (d. 1965) — composer of modernist music. ^[3]
• 19 July – Gustavo Machado Morales, politician and journalist (d. 1983)
• Rafael Ángel Rondón Márquez (d. 1966) — historian. ^[4]

Deaths

• 16 April - Joaquin Crespo ^[5]
• 29 July: Arturo Michelena (b. 1863) — painter. ^[6]

References

1. McBeth, Brian Stuart (2001). Gunboats, Corruption, and Claims: Foreign Intervention in Venezuela, 1899-1908. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 14. ISBN   9780313313561.
2. "Conociendo a Conny Mendez". Analitica.com (in European Spanish). 2016-01-06. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
3. Marie Elizabeth Labonville (12 July 2007). Juan Bautista Plaza and Musical Nationalism in Venezuela. Indiana University Press. ISBN   978-0-253-11696-3 . Retrieved 10 April 2013.
4. "Escritores venezolanos". sololiteratura.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2012-06-22. Retrieved 2025-07-13.
5. "Joaquín Crespo (1841-1898)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
6. Planchart, Enrique (1979). La pintura en Venezuela. Caracas: Equinoccio. p. 30.