1897

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1894 1895 1896 - 1897 - 1898 1899 1900 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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\n1897 in sports\n----\nList of state leaders in 1897
\nList of religious leaders in 1897\n|}

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 1 - Brooklyn, New York merges with New York City.\n* January 4 - A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosheri, son-in-law of the Oba of Benin. This leads to a Punitive Expedition against Benin.\n* February 2 - The Pennsylvania state capitol is destroyed by fire.\n* February 18- Benin is put to the torch by the Punitive Expedition.\n* March 4 - William McKinley succeeds Grover Cleveland s President of the United States.\n* April 5 - "Ordinance of April 5," equalizing German and Czech in Bohemia, signed in Austria-Hungary (see Kasimir Felix Graf von Badeni).\n* April 27 - Grant's Tomb is dedicated.\n* May 19 - Oscar Wilde is released from prison. \n* June 2 - Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he was dead, is quoted by the New York Journal as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration." \n* July 17 - Klondike Gold Rush begins when first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle. \n* July 25 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories. \n* August 29 - First Zionist Congress convenes in Basel, Switzerland.\n* September 1 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America. \n* December 28 - The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.\n* December 30 - Natal annexes Zululand.

• Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee.\n* France allows women to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

Births

\n* January 3 - Pola Negri, actress (d. 1987)\n* January 3 - Marion Davies, actress (d. 1961)\n* January 23 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect (d. 2000)\n* February 4 - Ludwig Erhard, politician.\n* February 10 - John F. Enders, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985) \n* February 10 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress (d. 1992)\n* February 11 - Yves de La Casiniere, composer\n* March 4 - Lefty O'Doul, baseball star, restauranteur (d. 1969)\n* March 5 - Soong May-ling aka Madame Chiang Kai-Shek\n* March 15 - Jackson Scholz, American sprinter\n* March 24 - Wilhelm Reich, psychotherapist (d. 1957)\n* March 27 - Gloria Swanson, actress (d. 1983)\n* March 28 - Sepp Herberger, football coach (d. 1977)\n* April 7 - Walter Winchell, broadcaster, journalist (d. 1972)\n* April 9 - John B. Gambling, radio talk-show host (d. 1974)\n* April 26 - Olga Tschechowa, actress (d. 1980)\n* April 26 - Douglas Sirk, director (d. 1987)\n* April 26 - Eddie Eagan, US sportsman\n*April 27 - Mary, Princess Royal.\n* May 14 - Sidney Bechet, jazz musician (d. 1959)\n* May 18 - Frank Capra, producer, director, writer (d. 1991)\n* May 19 - Frank Luke, World War I fighter ace (d. 1918)\n* June 10 - Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (d. 1918)\n* June 13 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner\n* July 11 - Blind Lemon Jefferson\n* July 24 - Amelia Earhart, aviator\n* August 2 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)\n* August 28 - Charles Boyer, actor\n* September 8 - Jimmie Rodgers\n* September 12 - Irene Joliot-Curie, scientist \n* September 23 - Walter Pidgeon, actor (d. 1984)\n* September 25 - William Faulkner, novelist\n* September 26 - Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)\n* December 18 - Fletcher Henderson, jazz musician (d. 1952)

Deaths

\n* April 3 - Johannes Brahms, composer\n* September 9 - Richard Holt Hutton, English writer and theologian\n* September 21 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian\n* October 27- Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, mother of Queen Mary\n* October 29 - Henry George, economist\n* Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie - traveler \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n