* 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 – Ardito Desio, Italian topographer ( d. 2001 )

* 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 )

* July 13 – Patrick Blackett, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1897 )

Patrick J. Quealy ( 1857 – 1930 ) founded Kemmerer as an " independent town " in 1897 when he was vice-president of the Kemmerer Coal Company, located south of the original townsite.

* John Patrick Fitzgerald ( 1815 – 1897 ), New Zealand doctor, community leader and hospital superintendent

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett OM CH FRS ( 18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974 ) was an English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism.

Edward " Eddie " Patrick Francis Eagan ( April 26, 1897 – June 14, 1967 ) was an American sportsman who is notable as being the only person to win a gold medal in different events at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.

Equipoise's dam Swinging was a descendant of the Epsom Oaks winner Miami, placing him in the same Thoroughbred family as the 1897 English Triple Crown winner Galtee More and the 1902 Epsom Derby winner Ard Patrick as well as some well-known American runners, such as Intentionally and Seabiscuit.

* Patrick Blackett ( Baron Blackett ) ( 1897 – 1974 )

He received his episcopal consecration on February 24, 1897 from Archbishop Patrick John Ryan, with Bishops Ignatius Frederick Horstmann and Michael John Hoban serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral Basilica of Sts.

He was promoted field marshal on 25 May 1895 and received the Order of St Patrick during 1897.

Patrick Joseph Bugden VC ( 17 March 1897, Tatham, New South Wales – 28 September 1917, Ypres, Belgium ) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

* Edward Patrick Allen ( 1897 – 1926 )

* Patrick Jennings ( 1831 – 1897 ), Australian politician

* Patrick Anthony McCarran ( 1897 )-former United States senator ( D-NV )

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Sir Patrick Alfred Jennings KCMG ( 20 March 1831 – 11 July 1897 ) was an Irish-Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales.

In 1897 British physicist J. J. Thomson showed the rays were composed of a previously unknown negatively charged particle, which was later named the electron.

* 1897 – The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.

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.

" In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the British Medical Association.

In 1897 Dr. Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the British Medical Association.

The British Post Office adopted the Baudot system during 1897 for a simplex circuit between London and Paris.

The British Post Office adopted it for a simplex circuit between London and Paris during 1897, then used it for more general purposes from 1898.

Enid Mary Blyton ( 11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968 ) was a British children's writer also known as Mary Pollock.

* Gramophone Company, a British record company, existing from 1897 to 1931

Ludwig Erhard ( 1897 – 1977 ) was in charge of economic policy as economics director for the British and American occupation zones and was Adenauer's long-time economics minister.

In 1897, the British sacked the city.

In 1886, a group of French and British language teachers, led by the French linguist Paul Passy, formed what would come to be known from 1897 onwards as the International Phonetic Association ( in French, l ’ Association phonétique internationale ).

* 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.

* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10, 000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.

* 1897 – Dennis Wheatley, British author ( d. 1977 )

Maxwell Herman Alexander " Max " Newman, FRS ( 7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984 ) was a British mathematician and codebreaker.

* 1991 – Kenneth Lindsay, British Labour Party politician ( b. 1897 )

* 1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1978 )

In 1897, Havelock Ellis, a British sexologist, co-authored the first English medical text book on homosexuality, Sexual inversion ( Das Konträre Geschlechtsgefühle ).

The Protectorate Ordinances ( passed in the Colony in 1896 and 1897 ) abolished the title of King and replaced it with " Paramount Chief "; chiefs and kings had formerly been selected by the leading members of their own communities, now all chiefs, even paramount ones, could be deposed or installed at the will of the Governor ; most of the judicial powers of the chiefs were removed and given to courts presided over by British " District Commissioners "; the Governor decreed that a house tax of 5s to 10s was to be levied annually on every dwelling in the Protectorate.