Abdur Rahman could only succeed in subjugating Hazaras and conquering their land when he effectively utilized internal differences within the Hazara community, co-opting sold-out Hazara chiefs into his bureaucratic sales of the enslaved Hazara men, women and children in 1897, the Hazaras remained de facto slaves until King Amanullah Khan declared Afghanistan's independence in 1919.

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.

The use of fork and spoon were introduced by King Chulalongkorn after his return from a tour of Europe in 1897 CE.

* May 21 – Dennis King, English actor ( b. 1897 )

In 1897, Joseon was renamed the Korean Empire, and King Gojong became Emperor Gojong.

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.

In 1897, the first settlers arrived, calling the community " Kingsville " after Guy King, who was one of the original settlers.

His publications include: The British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia, ( 1869 ) and Asshur and the Land of Nimrod ( 1897 ).

* King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway celebrated his Silver Jubilee on 18 September 1897.

His works include an oratorio Rebekah, The Lord is King ( Psalm 97 ), many services and anthems, and 246 hymn tunes ( published in 1897 in one volume ), as well as some partsongs ( among them the popular Sweet and Low ), and some pieces for the pipe organ.

Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood ( Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary ; 25 April 1897 – 28 March 1965 ) was a member of the British Royal Family ; she was the third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary.

Photograph of the King with his sons in England in 1897.

King Chulalongkorn with Tsar Nicholas II in Saint Petersburg, during the King's first Grand Tour in 1897.

This was done to commemorate King Chulalongkorn's visit to Sweden in 1897 where he visited the World Fair.

* A clip of King Chulalongkorns 1897 visit to Sweden

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

When in 1897 King Oscar celebrated his jubilee of twenty-five years as king, the exhibition (" Konst-och Industriutställningen ") which had been organized in Stockholm offered a convincing proof of the progress the country had made in all direction.

The coin, which was to be later known as the Spanish-Filipino peso, was minted in Madrid in 1897 and bore the bust of King Alfonso XIII.

Also in 1897, he played briefly as King Ferdinand V of Vingolia in F. C. Burnand's His Majesty at the Savoy Theatre and made two more short London stage appearances thereafter, as Scoones in Young Mr Yarde ( 1898 ) and Lambert Simnel in The Gay Pretenders ( 1900 ).

King Chulalongkorn of Siam ( far right ) with a few of his 33 sons at Eton College in 1897.

A Greek force of about 2, 000 men had landed at Kolymbari on 3 February 1897, and its commanding officer, Colonel Timoleon Vassos declared that he was taking over the island " in the name of the King of the Hellenes " and that he was announcing the union of Crete with Greece.

A Greek force of 1, 500 men had landed at Kolymbari on 1 February 1897, and its commanding officer, Colonel Timoleon Vassos declared that he was taking over the island " in the name of the King of the Hellenes " and that he was announcing the union of Crete with Greece.

In 1897, King Gojong, yielding to rising pressure from overseas and the demands of the Independence Association-led public opinion, returned to Gyeongungung ( modern-day Deoksugung ).

Gojong proclaimed the Korean Empire in 1897 to justify the country's ending of its traditional tributary subordination to China.

* His Majesty King Gojong of Korea ( 1863 – 1897 )

# Gwangmu ( 광무 ; 光武 ; " Bright Valour ")-used for the reign of Emperor Gojong, 1897 – 1907

In October 1897, Emperor Gojong proclaimed the new entity at Gyeongungung Palace and oversaw the partially successful modernization of the military, economy, land system, education system, and various industries.

In 1897, King Gojong, yielding to rising pressure from both overseas and the demands of the Independence Association-led public opinion, returned to Gyeongungung ( modern-day Deoksugung ).

He was posthumously raised to the rank of Emperor in 1899 by Gojong, the Gwangmu Emperor, who had proclaimed the Korean Empire in 1897.

In October 1897, King Gojong returned to Gyeongungung ( modern-day Deoksugung ).

However, In 1897, Gojong, yielding to rising pressure from both overseas and the demands of the Independence Association-led public opinion, returned to Gyeongungung ( modern-day Deoksugung ).

rightIn 1897, King Gojong, with Russian support, regained his throne, and spent " a fortune " to have his beloved Queen Min ( Empress Myeongseong ) remains properly honored and entombed.

In 1897, after the incident when Emperor Gojong took refuge in the Russian legation, he returned to this place and named it Gyeongungung again.

However, after the Mongol Invasions of Korea, these rulers remained technically subordinate to the Mongol Empire and later China until King Gojong declared the Korean Empire in 1897 and assumed the title of " Hwangje ," or Emperor ( the Korean rendition of the Chinese " huang di ").

The prince was born on 20 October 1897 at Deoksu Palace in Seoul as the seventh son of Gojong, the Gwangmu Emperor.

The said ruler's nation logically becomes an " Empire ", despite having no additional territory or hegemony such as Central African Empire or the Korean Empire proclaimed in 1897 when Korea, far from gaining new territory, was on the verge of being annexed by the Empire of Japan, the last to use the name officially.

In 1897, the Zionist Organisation was founded and the First Zionist Congress proclaimed its aim " to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law.

His organ at the Basilique Ste-Clotilde, Paris ( proclaimed a basilica by Pope Leo XIII in 1897 ) was one of the first to be built with several of these new features.

Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn published a " Manifesto for Irish Literary Theatre " in 1897, in which they proclaimed their intention of establishing a national theater for Ireland.

W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn published a " Manifesto for Irish Literary Theatre " in 1897, in which they proclaimed their intention of establishing a national theater for Ireland.

In 1897 the Pender Laboratory was founding at University College, London and Fleming took up the Pender Chair after the £ 5000 was endowed as a memorial to John Pender, the founder of Cable and Wireless.

Most of what is known as Lansing today is the direct result of the city becoming an industrial powerhouse which began with the founding of Olds Motor Vehicle Company in August 1897.

The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897.

Acomb FC was a founding member of the York Football League in 1897 and then a founding member of the Yorkshire Football League in 1920.

These two founding fathers of The Forward were quick to enlist in the ranks of a new rival socialist political party founded in 1897, the Social Democratic Party of America, founded by the nationally famous leader of the 1894 American Railroad Union strike, Eugene V. Debs, and Victor L. Berger, a German-speaking teacher and newspaper publisher from Milwaukee.

He soon developed the idea of founding his own art magazine, suggesting the idea to the publisher John Lane, who had formerly produced The Yellow Book, an influential periodical that had appeared between 1894 to 1897.

It was formerly known from its founding in 1897 as Tetyukhe (; ; literally meaning " river of wild boars "), until it was renamed in 1972 as part of a campaign to change any Chinese-derived place names in Primorsky Krai.

The settlement of Tetyukhe was founded in 1897, with the founding of a lead and zinc mine by Swiss immigrant Julius Brynner.

He gave $ 5, 000 to King Edward's Hospital Fund annually starting with its founding in 1897.

Hale edited the Christian Examiner, Old and New ( which he assisted in founding in 1869 and which merged with Scribner's Magazine in 1875 ), Lend a Hand ( which he founded in 1886 and which merged with the Charities Review in 1897 ), and the Lend a Hand Record.

His founding of a Social Democratic teachers ' union in 1896 lead to his delegation into the Lower Austrian provincial Board of Education in 1897, which in turn lead to his termination as a teacher later that same year.

In the early 20th century, the school underwent multiple name changes: Weber Stake Academy from its founding in 1889 to 1897, Weber Academy in 1902, Weber Normal college in 1918, and Weber College in 1922.

Long served as president from the college ’ s founding until his death in 1891, and his son, Eugene R. Long, served two terms as president ( 1891 – 1895 and 1897 – 1913 ).

Zhang Guotao ( November 26, 1897 – December 3, 1979 ) was a founding member and important leader of the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) and bitter rival to Mao Zedong.

His most significant achievement was the founding of the Dow Chemical Company in 1897.

Antonio Conselheiro prechament was against the Antichrist republic and conquered a lot of followers, founding a city named Canudos, where was practiced a cooperative system and in the summit the population of town was near 25. 000 inhabitants in 1897.

Rockefeller Chapel, University of ChicagoAfter completing his apprenticeship, Goodhue moved to Boston Massachusetts, where he was befriended by a group of young, artistic intellectuals involved in the founding of the Society of Arts and Crafts-Boston in 1897.

He was founding member of the British Astronomical Association ( BAA ) and its president from 1897 – 1898.

Berger was a founding member of the Social Democracy of America in 1897 and led the split of the " political action " faction of that organization to form the Social Democratic Party of America ( SDP ) in 1898.

After its founding in 1897, the Alpha Chapter at Vincennes University closed in 1910.

Henry George Hart took over as Headmaster in 1880 and his tenure saw a new Chapel built in 1897, the founding of the Old Sedberghian Club in 1897 / 98, the creation of the prefectorial system, the inaugural Wilson Run and the confirmation of the School motto " Dura Virum Nutrix " ( Stern Nurse of Men ).