The first appointee was Rear Admiral Karl Eduard Heusner, followed shortly by Rear Admiral Friedrich von Hollmann from 1890 to 1897.

Nobel's instructions named a Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize, the members of whom were appointed shortly after the will was approved in April 1897.

Putnam ’ s activities with the American Library Association led him to join with Justin Winsor and Melvil Dewey as official delegates to the International Conference of Librarians in London in 1897 When Winsor died shortly thereafter, Putnam served the remainder of his term as President of the ALA.

He had a brother and two sisters, the youngest born in 1897 shortly after they settled in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Reaching India shortly after the suppression of the frontier risings of 1897 – 1898, he paid special attention to the independent tribes of the north-west frontier, inaugurated a new province called the North West Frontier Province, and pursued a policy of forceful control mingled with conciliation.

The company was renamed the Robert Simpson Company Limited in May 1896 shortly before Robert Simpson's death in 1897.

She married her first husband, John Dryden Kuser ( 1897 – 1964 ), shortly after her seventeenth birthday, on April 26, 1919, in Washington, D. C. " I certainly wouldn't advise getting married that young to anyone ," she said later in life.

Sam Livingston died in 1897 shortly after the birth of his 14th child.

The academy nickname is the Bears, after the USRC Bear, which made a dramatic rescue in Alaska in 1897, shortly after the opening of the academy.

In 1897, Rosenblum began a torrid affair with Margaret Thomas ( née Callaghan ), the youthful wife of Reverend Hugh Thomas, shortly before the latter's death.

In 1897, he joined Gustav Klimt, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser shortly after they founded the " Vienna Secession " artistic group.

Drummond's health failed shortly afterwards ( he had suffered from bone cancer for some years ), and he died on 11 March 1897.

James Mitchell became the eighth Premier in 1896 but resigned in 1897 due to ill health and died shortly thereafter.

The first on January 8, 1897, shortly after construction was completed.

To this end Tunstall UDC began a series of improvements works shortly after its foundation, including the Victoria Public Baths-opened in 1897.

Prendergast resigned shortly after the election, and Lauzon was elected to take his place in the legislature in a by-election held on February 7, 1897.

He visited Russia in order to collect documents on the political and economic organization of the Slavic nations, and on his return published in the Revue des deux mondes ( 1882 – 1889 ) a series of articles, which appeared shortly afterwards in book form under the title L ' Empire des tsars et les Russes ( 4th ed., revised in 3 vols., 1897 – 1898 ).

He owned this land from the 1830s until shortly before his death in 1897, when he sold this land to George W. Vanderbilt.

The plum pudding model of the atom by J. J. Thomson, who discovered the electron in 1897, was proposed in 1904 before the discovery of the atomic nucleus in order to add the electron to the atomic model.

Munch returned to Christiania in 1897 where he also received grudging acceptance, where one critic wrote, " A fair number of these pictures have been exhibited before.

This was before the discovery of the particle by J. J. Thomson in 1897.

Clark and W. Harrison Moore, who had contributed to the first draft of the constitution put before the 1897 Adelaide Convention and was Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, postulated that the letters patent and the royal instructions issued by Queen Victoria were unnecessary " or even of doubtful legality ".

Sixty-six years after opening the mine in 1897, Hoover still had a partial share in the Sons of Gwalia mines when it finally closed in 1963, just one year before the former President's death in New York City in 1964.

Brahms even struggled to get to the Theater an der Wien in Vienna for the premiere of Strauss's operetta Die Göttin der Vernunft in 1897 before his death.

In 1923 he married the Spanish singer Carolina Codina ( 1897 – 1989, whose stage name was Lina Llubera ) before moving back to Paris.

His death in May 1891 occurred several years before the first use of proportional representation in Tasmania in 1897.

With the Lathams, Dickson was part of the group that formed the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, before he returned permanently to work in the United Kingdom in 1897.

** Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese Supercentenerian ; World's oldest man ; Last surviving man born in 1897 and before 1900.

They played in grey shorts until 1897, and between 1897 and 1921 they played in blue shorts before adopting the black shorts they play in now.

St Kilda competed as a senior club in the VFA from 1877 to 1879, 1881 – 1882 and 1886 – 1896 before moving into the breakaway competition – The Victorian Football League – from 1897 onwards.

By November 1, 1897, they were admitted to the Bellevue Hospital Center with tuberculosis, which they likely had contracted before their trip.

On April 21, 1897, Butch Cassidy and Elzy Lay robbed the Pleasant Valley Coal Company in nearby Castle Gate ; they stayed in Helper the day before.

He left sixty pages of an unfinished opera, Manuel Venegas, in 1897, in a desperate attempt to finish before he lost his mind completely ; after mid-1899 he could make no music at all and once even tried to drown himself, after which he was placed in a Vienna asylum at his own insistence.

In 1897, Matsukata Masayoshi convinced Ōkuma to participate in his second administration as Foreign Minister and Agriculture and Commerce Minister, but again, he remained in office for only one year before resigning.

* before November 1897 – after November 1898, S. Cortes

* before November 1897 – after November 1898, J. Fernandez de Cordoba

He worked as a demonstrator in Trinity's Engineering and Physics departments before succeeding William Johnson Sollas in the Chair of Geology and Mineralogy in 1897, a position which he held until his death in 1933 in Dublin.

Five years before Hemingway, another American novelist had won the Nobel Prize: William Faulkner ( 1897 – 1962 ).

In 1897, however, six weeks before graduation, she was forced to leave Earlham College due to ill health.

Kissing the stone in 1897, before the safeguards were installed.

Because the electron was not identified as a separate physical particle until the 1897 work of J. J. Thomson, the word " electron " was not used when discussing experiments that took place before this date.