1897 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1897?
- January 23, 1897 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
- February 7, 1897 – Greco-Turkish War: The first full-scale battle takes place when the Greek expeditionary force in Crete defeats a 4,000-strong Ottoman force at Livadeia.
- February 28, 1897 – Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
- March 13, 1897 – San Diego State University is founded.
- April 17, 1897 – The Aurora, Texas UFO incident
- May 19, 1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol Prison.
- May 22, 1897 – The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened
- May 26, 1897 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published.
- June 22, 1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
- July 2, 1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
- July 11, 1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
- August 2, 1897 – Anglo-Afghan wars: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial India’s North West Frontier Province.
- August 14, 1897 – Franco-Hova War: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
- August 31, 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
- September 1, 1897 – The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
- September 11, 1897 – After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
- September 12, 1897 – Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi.
- September 21, 1897 – The “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” editorial is published in the New York Sun.
- November 1, 1897 – The first Library of Congress building opened its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
- December 12, 1897 – Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded.
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