1897: Difference between revisions

1897 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1897; MDCCCXCVII
Ab urbe condita	2650
Armenian calendar	1346; ԹՎ ՌՅԽԶ
Assyrian calendar	6647
Baháʼí calendar	53–54
Balinese saka calendar	1818–1819
Bengali calendar	1304
Berber calendar	2847
British Regnal year	60 Vict. 1 – 61 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2441
Burmese calendar	1259
Byzantine calendar	7405–7406
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey); 4594 or 4387; — to —; 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster); 4595 or 4388
Coptic calendar	1613–1614
Discordian calendar	3063
Ethiopian calendar	1889–1890
Hebrew calendar	5657–5658
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1953–1954
- Shaka Samvat	1818–1819
- Kali Yuga	4997–4998
Holocene calendar	11897
Igbo calendar	897–898
Iranian calendar	1275–1276
Islamic calendar	1314–1315
Japanese calendar	Meiji 30; (明治３０年)
Javanese calendar	1826–1827
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4230
Minguo calendar	15 before ROC; 民前15年
Nanakshahi calendar	429
Thai solar calendar	2439–2440
Tibetan calendar	阳火猴年; (male Fire-Monkey); 2023 or 1642 or 870; — to —; 阴火鸡年; (female Fire-Rooster); 2024 or 1643 or 871

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Years:
1894 1895 1896 - 1897 - 1898 1899 1900

Decades:
1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s

Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

January 1 - Brooklyn, New York merges with New York City.
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.
February 2 - Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania state capitol, is destroyed by fire.
February 18- Benin is put to the torch by the Punitive Expedition.
March 4 - William McKinley succeeds Grover Cleveland as President of the United States.
April 5 - "Ordinance of April 5," equalizing German and Czech in Bohemia, signed in Austria-Hungary (see Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni).
April 27 - Grant's Tomb is dedicated.
May 19 - Oscar Wilde is released from prison.
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."
July 17 - Klondike Gold Rush begins when first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle.
July 25 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
July 31 - First ascent of Mount Saint Elias, second highest peak in the United States and Canada.
August 29 - First Zionist Congress convenes in Basel, Switzerland.
September 1 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.
December 9 - First issue of the feminist newspaper La Fronde is published by Marguerite Durand.
December 28 - The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.
December 30 - Natal annexes Zululand.

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 *[[May 19]] - [[Frank Luke]], American World War I pilot (d. [[1918]])
 *[[May 21]] - [[Nikola Avramov]], Bulgarian painter (d. [[1945]])
+*[[May 29]] - [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]], Austrian composer (d. [[1957]])
 *[[June 7]] - [[George Szell]], Hungarian conductor (d. [[1970]])
 *[[June 10]] - [[Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia]] (d. [[1918]])