Clelia Maria Josepha ( Giuseppina ) Strepponi ( September 8, 1815 – November 14, 1897 ) was a nineteenth century Italian operatic soprano of great renown and the second wife of composer Giuseppe Verdi.

Their marriage was happy and Verdi was deeply saddened by her death in Sant ’ Agata, near Busseto in 1897.

Many notable sea canals were completed in this period, starting with the Suez Canal ( 1869 )-which carries tonnage many times that of most other canals-and the Kiel Canal ( 1897 ), though the Panama Canal was not opened until 1914.

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( commenced Leipzig, 1897 – 1909, edition completed, following emigration to England in 1933, by 1936 ).

Construction of this bridge started in 1876, and was completed in 1897.

The first steel archway bridge near the falls was completed in 1897.

* 100th anniversary of rail link ( History of the Eastern Goldfields railway, officially completed on 1 January 1897, to the present, including introduction of the Prospector train on 29 November 1971 ) Kalgoorlie Miner 1 January 1997, p. 2

The Irkutsk Regional museum with stamped last names of famous researches of Siberia on its walls ( 1883 ), the building of the first public community, city theater ( 1897 ), Kazan ' cathedral, made in new Byzantine style ( 1893 ), and the Roman Catholic cathedral ( 1895 ) completed an architectural style of the city.

In 1897 he was encouraged by Baron von der Lasa ( who had just completed his book on the history of European chess ) to research into the further past of chess.

In 1897, Bourne, who began with but later owned several thousand acres reaching to West Sayville, completed his mansion, Indian Neck Hall, on the east side of Oakdale.

Around 1897, the popular cross-island Bicycle Path was completed and ran through Selden.

In 1897, the Fayette County Courthouse was completed and is a remarkable example of the Romanesque Revival architectural style.

As a composer, Balakirev finished major works many years after he had started them ; he began his First Symphony in 1864 but completed it in 1897.

Balakirev began his First Symphony after completing the Second Overture but cut work short to concentrate on the Overture on Czech Themes, recommencing on the symphony only 30 years later and not finishing it until 1897. Letters from Balakirev to Stasov and Cui indicate that the first movement was two-thirds completed and the final movement sketched out, though he would supply a new theme for the finale many years later.

Many notable sea canals were completed in this period, such as the Suez Canal in 1869, the Kiel Canal in 1897, and the Panama Canal in 1914.

The church was completed in 1897 as a memorial to Margaret Green.

It is home to a daily street market and a local landmark, the clock tower, completed in 1900 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

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The Cathedral's organ was built by Lewis & Co. of Ferndale Road, Brixton, south London, and completed in 1897.

The new mountain hut was completed on 19 September 1897 at a cost of 36, 615 gold marks.

The mansion was completed in 1897 and was modeled after the wing of Hampton Court Palace designed by architect Sir Christopher Wren.

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He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Brown and completed his doctorate in philosophy at Cornell in 1897.

* 1897: Hankaku Railroad ( current Fukuchiyama Line ) completed.

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** Emilio Aguinaldo, the last President of the Supreme Government Council 23 March 1897-16 December 1897 and chairman of the Revolutionary Government from 23 June to 1 November 1897, was dictator from 12 June 1898-23 January.

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.

* 1897 – Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.

In December 1897, Wilhelm II visited Bismarck for the last time.

* 1897 – After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.

) 1897 – 17 July 1918 ), ( after 1900, Tatiana's birthday was celebrated on 11 June ) was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and of Tsarina Alexandra.

Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ) has been the definitive description of the vampire in popular fiction for the last century.

" In 1851 the last sentence was struck after the Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland had campaigned for the rights of the Jews, and in 1897 also the next but last sentence.

The last public hanging in West Virginia took place in Ripley in 1897, when John Morgan was hanged for murder ; the spectacle prompted the West Virginia Legislature to ban public executions soon after.

Wolf's last concert appearance, which included his early champion Jäger, was in February 1897.

The Jambalaya, Tulane's yearbook, published annually since 1897, published its last edition ( Volume 99 ) in 1995, because of funding and management problems.

The last valley to be connected to the road system in the state of Graubünden was Avers, whose remote hamlet of Juf was only reached in 1897.

Mexico minted the last eight-real peso in 1897, and at the beginning of the twentieth century, these Mexican dollar coins were worth only 50 cents in relation to the U. S. dollar.

In the last year of the war, he served on the staff of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, later writing a lively memoir of the experience, Campaigning With Grant ( 1897 ).

Each of the five movements is based on a Mallarmé poem, moving from the early " Don du poème " of 1865 in the first movement to the late " Tombeau " of 1897 in the last.

His regular fireman on No. 638 was his close friend, John Wesley McKinnie, with whom he worked exclusively from about 1897 until he went to the passenger run out of Memphis with his next and last fireman, Sim Webb in 1900.

The last occupant was the widow of Thomas Jones, town clerk of Wednesbury 1897 – 1921.

Tsar Nicholas II and Franz Joseph, who were both interested in the Balkans, started implementing policies, beginning in 1897, which brought on the last stages of the balkanization process.

This did not last and the Kabaka declared war on Britain in on July 6, 1897.

Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn ( March 24, 1897 – July 4, 1979 ) was a writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe of California, and for her retelling of traditional narratives from several Native Californian cultures.

Their last daughter, Soong May-ling came in 1897 and was followed by the brothers T. L.