* 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 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 )

His financial situation improved considerably and in 1897, Munch bought himself a summer house, a small fisherman's cabin built in the late 18th century, in the small town of Åsgårdstrand in Norway.

The first of these was made in France in 1897, and it was followed in the same year by a film of the Passion play staged yearly in the Czech town of Horitz.

A tram system operated in the town from 1897 to 1936.

Chamberlain was dismayed to learn in 1897 that the French had expanded from Dahomey to Bussa, a town claimed by Goldie.

The town was originally called Needmore, but when it was incorporated in about 1897, the name was changed to Winfield in honor of General Winfield Scott.

Jerome had three major fires between 1897 and 1899, burning out much of the town.

Shortly after the 1897 beet campaign, a new town emerged, now commemorated on the National Register of Historic Places as the Henry T. Oxnard Historic District.

A post office was opened in La Crosse in 1881, and La Crosse was incorporated as a town on 17 December 1897.

Douglas was chartered as a town in 1895 and as a city in 1897.

Donalsonville was first chartered as a town in Georgia on December 8, 1897.

Original 1897 water tankAs of the census of 2000, there were 1, 323 people, 532 households, and 353 families residing in the town.

Incorporated in 1897, Rathbun was established in 1892 as a mining town.

As early as the 1830s people settled in the area now known as Hornbeck, but a town didn ’ t begin to form until 1897, when an agent for the Arkansas Town Site Company named F. A.

In 1897 Haverhill annexed the town of Bradford.

Westwood was first settled in 1640 and was part of the town of Dedham ( it was originally called ' West Dedham ') until it was officially incorporated in 1897.

* Willa Cather's 1897 short story A Resurrection is set in Brownville, and it includes a description of the town.

According to Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who has written extensively about his hometown, the most likely story as to how the town received its name was that when George Frederick Colton was looking for gold in the area in 1897, he supposedly said that it would take a searchlight to find gold ore there.

In 1897 and 1898, a total of bills from hotels and saloons in town showed that 3000 kegs of beer were consumed in a village with a population of 500.

The town owes its name to the 1897 formation of the Mountain Retreat Association ; the name was shortened to " Montreat " when property was purchased in June of that year.

The town of Star was incorporated in 1897.

When a Post Office was established here in 1897, the name of the town was changed to Aristes, a contraction of the name Aristides, a Greek statesman.

The town was the original home of the Tidioute Cutlery Company, a knife manufacturer founded in Tidioute in 1897.

By 1868 the community had built a stone church, and in 1897 the town boasted 200 families mainly from Poland and Germany and their black tenants.