* 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist ( d. 1897 )

* 1897 – Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter ( d. 1983 )

Australia resoundingly won the 1897 – 98 series by 4 – 1 under the captaincy of Harry Trott.

* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.

* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

* 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss politician ( d. 1974 )

* 1897 – Jandamarra, Indigenous-Australian resistance leader ( b. c. 1873 )

* 1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.

* 1897 – Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer ( d. 1981 )

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

), Prosopographia Imperii Romani, 3 vol., Berlin, 1897 – 1898.

* 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

* 1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.

* 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.

* 1897 – Claire Windsor, American actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1975 – Fredric March, American actor ( b. 1897 )

* 1994 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar ( b. 1897 )

Oldtiden og den ældre Middelalder, pp. 570 – 735 ( Copenhagen, 1897 – 1905 ).

* 1897 – The Aurora, Texas UFO incident

* 1897 – Thornton Wilder, American dramatist ( d. 1975 )

* 1897 – Enid Blyton, English author ( d. 1968 )

* 1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet ( d. 1970 )

Count Ardito Desio ( 18 April 1897 – 12 December 2001 ) was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer.

* 1897 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author ( d. 1976 )

One of the first building was the Asmara President's Office: this former " Italian government's palace " was built in 1897 by Ferdinando Martini, the first Italian governor of Eritrea.

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

It was identified in 1897 by the Italian physician Camillo Golgi and named after him in 1898.

It was discovered in 1897 by Italian physician Camillo Golgi during an investigation of the nervous system.

* 1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.

* 1847 – Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist ( d. 1897 )

* 1815 – Giuseppina Strepponi, Italian soprano ( d. 1897 )

** Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author ( b. 1897 )

* April 4 – Dina Manfredini, Italian Supercenterian ; Oldest Italian Person Ever ; Last surviving woman born in 1897

The very large Teatro Massimo was designed in the same period by Giovan Battista Filippo Basile, and built by the Rutelli & Machì building firm of the industrial and old Rutelli Italian family in Palermo, and was opened in 1897.

The story is told in verse in ' Musings on Tintagel and its Heroes ' by Joseph Brown, 1897 ; the youth was buried in Tintagel Churchyard and the grave is marked by a wooden cross ( his name is given in the official Italian usage, surname first: Catanese Domenico ).

It includes several distinctive residences such as the Judge Ira Fields home ( 1897 ); the cut stone Palumbo House, and Italian villa-inspired house built by master stonemason John Palumbo ; the stately Salyers House Bed and Breakfast, built for Confederate States of America Col. Logan Henry Neal Salyer in the early 20th century ; and a Dutch Colonial style home ordered from the Sears Modern Home Catalog and delivered to its owner, in pieces, by railcar in 1928.

* January 22-Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Italian writer and art critic ( died 1897 )

Besides many contributions to the Academy, the Saturday Review, the Magazine of Art and other periodicals, he published volumes on The Italian Pre-Raphaelites ( 1887 ), The Earlier English Water-Colour Painters ( 1890 and 1897 ), In the National Gallery ( 1895 ) and British Contemporary Artists ( 1899 ).

* In 1897, he bought Villa Delahante in Posillipo, overlooking the Bay of Naples, currently residence of the President of the Italian Republic, still known as " Villa Rosebery "

In Trieste the Italian-speaking " Social Democratic League " ( Lega Social Democratica ) decided at its congress in December 1897 to change its name to " Adriatic Italian Section of the Social Democratic Workers ' Party of Austria " ( Sezione Italian Adriatica del Partito dei Lavoratori Social Democratici in Austria ).

In 1897 Berenson added another work to his series of scholarly yet handy guides publishing The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance.