# 1897: Lady Havelock ( Anne Havelock, wife of Sir Arthur Havelock, Governor of the Presidency of Madras 1896-1900 )

* Lieutenant General Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet ( 1830 – 1897 ), British General, MP for Sunderland 1874 – 1881 and Durham South East 1885 – 1892 and 1895 – 1897 ( son of Sir Henry Havelock )

* Sexual inversion ( used by Krafft-Ebing and also Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds in " Sexual Inversion ", 1897.

On June 15, 1897, a fire of unknown origin, possibly caused by faulty wiring, turned the wooden structures on Ellis Island into ashes.

In August 1897, he was brought to America by his mother Sarah on the S. S. Friesland, and landed at Ellis Island.

Mary Ellis ( June 15, 1897 – January 30, 2003 ) was a long-lived star of the British stage best known for her roles in the genre of musical theatre.

Ellis was born May Belle Elsas in New York City in 1897.

Most of Castle Clinton's immigrant passenger records were destroyed in a fire that consumed the first structures on Ellis Island on 15 June 1897, but it is generally accepted that over 8 million immigrants ( and perhaps as many as 12 million ) were processed during its operation.

* Mary Ellis ( 1897 – 2003 ), British stage actress

P. Webley & Son, which merged with W. C. Scott & Sons and Richard Ellis & Son in 1897 to form the Webley & Scott Revolver and Arms Co., was the primary manufacturer of service pistols for the British Army as well as producing firearms for civilian use.

* 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.

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 )

* 1897 – Patrick Blackett, British physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1974 )

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.

Comstock made engravings for the more than 600 plates Manual for the Study of Insects ( 1895 ), Insect Life ( 1897 ), and How to Know the Butterflies ( 1904 ), the first written by her husband and the latter two co-authored by them.

The first regular auto racing venue was Nice, France, run in late March, 1897, as a " Speed Week.

* 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

Antoine Thomson d ' Abbadie d ' Arrast ( January 3, 1810 – March 19, 1897 ) was an Irish-French and Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologue, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in Ethiopia during the first half of the 19th century.

* War of Canudos ( 1893 – 1897 ): The deadliest rebellion of Brazil, the insurrectionists defeated the first 3 military forces sent to quell the rebellion.

Waldemar Haffkine, a doctor who worked in Bombay, India, was the first to invent and test a plague vaccine against bubonic plague in 1897.

In more recent times, the World Zionist Organization held its first congress in Basel on September 3, 1897.

One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

While the Platinum Age saw the first use of the term " comic book " ( The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats ( 1897 )), the first known full-color comic ( The Blackberries ( 1901 )), and the first monthly comic book ( Comics Monthly ( 1922 )), it was not until the Golden Age that the archetype of the superhero would originate.

On September 18, 1897, Young pitched the first no-hitter of his career in a game against the Cincinnati Reds.

The Statistical Department of the Ministry of Finance conducted the first census in 1882, which considered as a preparatory step ; the first true population census was conducted in 1897.

The first was when 3 Scottish firms formed the United Turkey Red Co. Ltd in 1897, and the second, in 1899, was the much larger Calico Printers ' Association.

* 1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.

He operated his first successful engine in 1897.

* 1897: August 10, Diesel built his first working prototype in Augsburg.

On 9 January 1897, he was given his first command, the destroyer Ranger, continuing up to June 1897 when he was again seconded to the Egyptian government for the next phase of the campaign.

In 1897, Eduard Buchner submitted his first paper on the ability of yeast extracts that lacked any living yeast cells to ferment sugar.

One of the first building was the Asmara President's Office: this former " Italian government's palace " was built in 1897 by Ferdinando Martini, the first Italian governor of Eritrea.