His symphonic poem Paa Vidderne was performed in Christiania in 1891 and in Monte Carlo in 1894 ; Gunnar Heiberg commissioned Delius to provide incidental music for his play Folkeraadet in 1897 ; and Delius's second opera, The Magic Fountain, was accepted for staging at Prague, but the project fell through for unknown reasons.

Delius in 1897 by Christian Krohg

English composer Frederick Delius stayed as a boy on the Crescent with his family at Miss Hurd's boarding house ( number 24 ) in 1876 and 1877 and then also at Mrs. Colley's ( number 24 ) in 1897.

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

The Venice convention of 30 January 1892 was on cholera by the Suez Canal route ; that of Dresden of 15 April 1893, on cholera within European countries ; that of Paris of 3 April 1894, on cholera by the pilgrim traffic ; and that of Venice, on 19 March 1897, was in connection with the outbreak of plague in the East, and the conference met to settle on an international basis the steps to be taken to prevent, if possible, its spread into Europe.

In 1897 in Munich, Rainer Maria Rilke met and fell in love with the widely traveled, intellectual woman of letters Lou Andreas-Salomé.

Anna Leonowens met Chulalongkorn again when he visited London in 1897, thirty years after she had left Siam, and the king took the opportunity to express his thanks in person.

In 1897, at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville, a log house that had been moved from Greeneville was displayed as the capitol where the State of Franklin's delegates met in the 1780s.

In September 1897 the convention met in Sydney to consider 286 proposed amendments from the colonies.

" The work of the censors was considered too severe and met with much opposition even in Catholic intellectual circles ; after the Council of Trent had authorised a revised list prepared under Pope Pius IV, the so-called Tridentine Index was promulgated in 1564 ; it remained the basis of all later lists until Pope Leo XIII, in 1897, published his Index Leonianus.

He campaigned for lower rates throughout the Empire, and when met by resistance decided to go it alone, announcing that at the end of 1897 Canada would unilaterally lower the letter rate to Britain from five to three cents.

He met Marine Anderson at the Lutheran church in Everett, where they were married in 1897.

Venizelos, as a representative of the Cretan rebels, met the admirals of the Great Powers on a Russian warship on 7 March 1897.

He was also involved in horse breeding and racing, and at a horse show in 1897 he met Lilian Ottaway of Hamilton daughter of Cuthbert Ottaway and Marion Stinson.

It met first in Adelaide in March 1897, secondly in Sydney in August, and thirdly in Melbourne in the sweltering heat of January 1898.

Sometime around July 1898 Lomax began an intense relationship with Miss Shirley Green of Palestine, Texas, whom he had met in 1897.

He also met Clara Engels there ; they were married two years later, on 4 September 1897.

In 1897 the town council met to deliberate how best to celebrate the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee.

The war correspondent Winston Churchill told of his campaign from Bloemfontein to Pretoria in Ian Hamilton's March ( London, 1900, reprinted as the second half of The Boer War ), having first met Hamilton in 1897 when they sailed on the same ship.

In 1897 he was appointed, jointly with Lord Justice Collins, to represent Great Britain on the Venezuela Boundary Commission, which met in Paris in the spring of 1899.

In 1897, the Department of Public Works purchased the Drummond County Railway from James Naismith Greenshields and folded it into the ICR to provide the railway with a direct route from Sainte-Rosalie ( east of Saint-Hyacinthe where it met the GTR main line ) to Lévis.

BD was founded in 1897 by Maxwell W. Becton and Fairleigh S. Dickinson, two American businessmen who met on a sales trip.

The latter having abruptly retired from the collaboration, Halévy was at a loss how to carry out the contract, when on the steps of the theatre he met Henri Meilhac ( 1831 – 1897 ), then comparatively a stranger to him.

In 1897, he met the woman he would marry, Henriette Negrin, in Paris.

Danelek also notes that the reports ended abruptly in mid-April 1897, suggesting that the craft may have met with disaster, effectively ending the venture and permitting the sightings to fall into the realm of mythology.

* American writer and poet Stephen Crane lived in Oxted in 1897, where he met writers such as Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford.

In August 1897, then a Captain, he met with Emilio Aguinaldo in his Biak-na-bato headquarters and proposed an attack on a Spamish garrison in Paombong, Bulacan.

* 1897 – Damerla Rama Rao, Indian artist, ( d. 1925 )

* 1897 – Jozef C. Mazur, American stained glass artist and painter ( d. 1970 )

* January 6 – William Gropper, American artist ( b. 1897 )

Félicien Rops ( 1833 – 98 ) won acclaim as a graphic artist, as did surrealist painters Paul Delvaux ( 1897 – 1994 ) and René Magritte ( 1898 – 1967 ).

It represents the life work of John Ehn ( 1897 – 1981 ), a self-taught artist who wished to pass on a sense of the Old West, derived from personal experiences, myths, and tall tales.

Lady Godiva by John Collier ( artist ) | John Collier, c. 1897, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

* James William Abert ( 1820 – 1897 ), soldier, explorer, ornithologist, and topographical artist.

* James Bard ( 1815 – 1897 ), marine artist, buried in unmarked grave

* Ivan Le Lorraine Albright ( 1897 – 1983 ) was a painter and artist

* John Gilbert ( painter ) ( 1817 – 1897 ), British artist

Sir John Gilbert ( 21 July 1817 – 5 October 1897 ) was an English artist, illustrator and engraver.

He received the title of " artist " in 1897 and a degree in law the following year.

Dewdney is the son of Canadian artist and author Selwyn Dewdney, brother of Alexander Keewatin Dewdney, and the great-grand-nephew of Edgar Dewdney ( Lieutenant-governor: British Columbia 1892 — 1897, Northwest Territories, 1881 — 1888 ).

Title page engraving from an 1897 edition of Le Père Goriot, by an unknown artist ; published by George Barrie & Son in Philadelphia

The artist then began a series of Conquerors, wrought in gold, silver and gems: Bonaparte entering Cairo ( 1897 ); Tamerlane ( 1898 ); and Frederick the Great ( 1899 ).

* Ten American Painters or simply The Ten, an 1897 artist group

It was opened on 18 November 1881 at 84 Boulevard Rouchechouart by the artist Rodolphe Salis, and closed in 1897.

Ivan Le Lorraine Albright ( February 20, 1897 – November 18, 1983 ) was an American magic realist painter and artist, most renowned for his self-portraits, character studies, and still lifes.

The painter of both portraits and landscapes, Pemberton was the first artist from the province of British Columbia to receive international acclaim when her work was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, including her award-winning 1897 work seen here titled " Little Boy Blue.

Lady Godiva by John Collier ( artist ) | John Collier, c. 1897

When exhibited by Pavel Tretyakov in 1897, they brought him to attention of Sergei Diaghilev and the artist Leon Bakst.

George Sakier ( 1897 – 1988 ) was an American artist.

* Jan Benda ( 1897 – 1967 ), Czech artist

His father was artist Ivan Albright ( 1897 – 1983 ).