* Alley, Henry, " The Quest for Anonymity: The Novels of George Eliot ", University of Delaware Press, 1997.

* Wilmington, Delaware, USA ( 1997 )

* 1997 The State of Delaware purchased the East End lighthouse and placed it on the National Register of Historic Places.

* Dorothy Kubik, A Free Soil-A Free People: The Anti-Rent War in Delaware County, New York ( 1997 ) ISBN 0-935796-86-X

* Delaware & Hudson: The History of an Important Railroad Whose Antecedent Was a Canal Network to Transport Coal, Jim Shaughnessy ( 1997 )

* Delaware & Hudson: The History of an Important Railroad Whose Antecedent Was a Canal Network to Transport Coal, Jim Shaughnessy ( 1997 )

Under Bain's ownership, the company also made a number of acquisitions, including writing products company SCM in July 1994, brand names from the American Trading and Production Corporation in August 1995, WR Acquisition and the Williamhouse-Regency Division of Delaware, Inc. in October, 1995, Niagara Envelope Company, Inc. in 1996, and Shade / Allied, Inc. in February 1997.

Delaware Punch was commonly sold at the New Orleans drug store chain K & B, before it was bought by Rite Aid in 1997.

The hosting Delaware Blue Hens won the tournament in each year except for 1997.

Alaska was the first US jurisdiction to enact laws allowing protection for self-settled trusts ( in 1997 ) and was shortly followed by Delaware, Nevada, South Dakota and a few others.

** Jungle Park Original Soundtrack with Delaware ( 1997 )

* The Great Wall – Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, New York, West Virginia, South Carolina

* 1682 – William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.

* 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.

* 1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze ( May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868 ) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.

* 1789 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware ( b. 1738 )

* 1865 – In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery.

* 1861 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.

* 1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge ( also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge ), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.

* 1935 – Ruth Ann Minner, American politician, businesswoman and 72nd Governor of Delaware

* 1776 – Delaware Separation Day – Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania.

* 1918 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.

* 1638 – Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.

* 1732 – John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania ( d. 1808 )

* 1957 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.

* 1929 – JC Penney opens store # 1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U. S. states.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.

" Diamond State Trolleys – Electric Railways of Delaware.

Thomas McKean ( March 19, 1734 – June 24, 1817 ) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* May 2 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.

* October 24 – Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time anywhere in Wilmington, Delaware.

* August 27 – Launching a steam powered craft on the Delaware River, John Fitch demonstrates the first U. S. patent for his design.

As of 2000, 91 % of Delaware residents age 5 and older speak only English at home ; 5 % speak Spanish.

* 2000 Census of Population and Housing for Delaware, U. S. Census Bureau

by O ' Sullivan, Orlaith ( The British Library & Oak Knoll Press in association with The Scriptorium: Center for Christian Antiquities London & New Castle, Delaware 2000 ), pp. 89 – 102.

:" Words are to the Anthropologist what rolled pebbles are to the Geologist — battered relics of past ages often containing within them indelible records capable of intelligent interpretation — and when we see what amount of change 2000 years has been able to produce in the languages of Greece & Italy or 1000 in those of Germany France & Spain we naturally begin to ask how long a period must have lapsed since the Chinese, the Hebrew, the Delaware & the Malesass had a point in common with the German & Italian & each other — Time!

2000 Census Age Pyramid for Delaware County

U of Delaware P, 2000.

Newark: U of Delaware P, 2000.

Newark: U of Delaware P, 2000.

* Rebecca Bledsoe, Miss Delaware 2005, a 2000 graduate of Middletown High School

Bethany Beach, Delaware: Harold E. Dukes, Jr., 2000.

The economic mix of the country reveals a balance of the following main economic activities: Manufacturing ( 18 %), Trade ( 27 %), Government ( 15 %), and Service ( 23 %) according to statistics published by Delaware Area Chamber of Commerce in 2000.

The population of Delaware Water Gap was 744 at the 2000 census.

Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000.

In 2000, controversy arose when Sarah Brady purchased a. 30-06 Springfield rifle in Delaware for her son.

ING Direct was founded in 2000, with its headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Alan Bates Harmonica Collection and Archives ( Wilmington, Delaware ), received as a gift in 2000, is second in size and importance only to the Harmonika Museum in Trossingen, Germany.

Minner was elected Governor of Delaware in 2000.

General Howe agreed, if it could be done easily, and gave Donop command of 2000 Hessian troops, with which he crossed the Delaware River on October 22.

The findings are based on research conducted by James Angelini, professor of communication at the University of Delaware, in collaboration with Samuel Bradley, assistant professor of advertising at Texas Tech University, and Sungkyoung Lee of Indiana University, which used ads that aired during the 2000 presidential election.

In 2000, he was re-elected with 65 % of the vote even though Democratic Presidential candidate Al Gore won Delaware County with 54 % of the vote.

He was first elected Lieutenant Governor of Delaware in 2000 and served from January 16, 2001 until January 20, 2009.

* The first ice hockey player to be named Delaware's athlete of the year by the Delaware Sportswriters and Broadcasters Association on January 27, 2000.

iRobot Corporation is an American advanced technology company founded in 1990 and incorporated in Delaware in 2000.

Until 2000, the 914 area code served Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, and Delaware counties, in addition to Westchester.