* 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 )

* 1897 – Ronald Skirth, conscientious objector of the First World War ( d. 1977 )

* 1978 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1897 )

* June 7 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1897 )

* Ronald Skirth ( 1897 – 1977 ), conscientious objector and author of the First World War memoir The Reluctant Tommy, grew up in Bexhill and describes it at length in his book.

* Ronald Skirth ( b. 1897 ), World War I veteran who became a pacifist during the war and purposely miscalculated British guns.

* Ronald Walker ( Australian politician ) ( 1897 – 1981 ), New South Wales politician

It was clear to the organizers of the American effort that previous efforts at disease control had been largely ineffective, as the causes of the two main diseases were unknown, but in 1897 it was proved by Britain's Ronald Ross in India that malaria was spread by mosquitos.

Just a few years before, Britain's Sir Ronald Ross proved in 1897 that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes.

In 1920 she married bisexual journalist and investor Ronald Tree ( 1897 – 1976 ), a cousin of her first husband.

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish FRS ( 9 November 1897 – 7 June 1978 ) was a British chemist.

* Ronald Gervase Mountain ( 1897 – 1983 ), British Indian Army officer

Classic works of this Urban Gothic include Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ), George du Maurier's Trilby ( 1894 ), Richard Marsh's The Beetle: A Mystery ( 1897 ), Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw ( 1898 ), and the stories of Arthur Machen.

Abbott was a religious figure of some public note and was called upon on October 30, 1897, to deliver an address in New York at the funeral of economist, Henry George.

* 1897 – George Hendric Houghton, American clergyman ( b. 1820 )

* 1839 – Henry George, American economist ( d. 1897 )

On 13 May 1897, Marconi, assisted by George Kemp, a Cardiff Post Office engineer, transmitted the first wireless signals over water to Lavernock ( near Penarth in Wales ) from Flat Holm.

* George Wellington ( 1852 – 1927 ) U. S. Senator from Maryland ( 1897 – 1903 )

* September 21 – Henry George, American writer, politician and political economist ( d. 1897 )

* March 3 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist ( d. 1897 )

* February 1 – George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman ( d. 1897 )

Famous illustrators for British editions include: Arthur Boyd Houghton, John Tenniel, John Everett Millais and George John Pinwell for Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments, published in 1865 ; Walter Crane for Aladdin's Picture Book ( 1876 ); Albert Letchford for the 1897 edition of Burton ’ s translation ; Edmund Dulac for Stories from the Arabian Nights ( 1907 ), Princess Badoura ( 1913 ) and Sindbad the Sailor & Other Tales from the Arabian Nights ( 1914 ).

In 1897 he merged his growing London practice with that of Arthur Rhys Roberts ( who was to become Official Solicitor ) under the name of Lloyd George, Roberts and Co ..

Some charities and volunteer organizations have also been founded as gifts to, or in honour of, some of Canada's monarchs or members of the Royal Family, such as the Victorian Order of Nurses ( a gift to Queen Victoria for her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 ), the Canadian Cancer Fund ( set up in honour of King George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935 ), and the Queen Elizabeth II Fund to Aid in Research on the Diseases of Children.

On 1 November 1897 a band of twenty to thirty armed men stormed into the residence of a German missionary, George Stenz, and killed two priests who were his guests while looking for Stenz, who was sleeping in the servant's quarters.

Engineer Leslie George Frise ( 1897 – 1979 ) developed an aileron shape that is often used due to its ability to counteract adverse yaw.

They have been patented over 200 times in the U. S. alone, as in U. S. Patent 0586456, awarded in 1897 to George E. Rideout.

The bells hang in a timber frame installed in 1897 by George Day & Son of Eye, Suffolk.

In 1897 the northeastern portion of the county was separated to form the new Dorchester County, with its seat at Saint George.

The church was built between 1888 and 1897 and designed by George Fellowes Prynne, a pupil of George Edmund Street.

The church was built between 1888 and 1897 and designed by George Fellowes Prynne, a pupil of George Edmund Street.

In 1897, T. R. H the Duke and Duchess of York ( George V and Queen Mary ), grandparents to Elizabeth II, visited Newcastle to open the Slieve Donard Hotel.