In 1897 Lord Aberdeen was appointed Governor-General of Canada and the Aberdeens moved out.

was merged into the Aberdeen and Asheboro Railroad in 1897.

James Legge ( 1815 – 1897 ), scholar and missionary to China, was born in Huntly and educated there and at King's College Aberdeen, before leaving to his first mission post in Malacca in 1839.

In 1897 he married Margaret Forbes Cornwall, of Aberdeen.

She and Lord Aberdeen, in honour of the Queen's Jubilee in 1897, spent $ 4, 000 of their own money to stage a huge pageant in Toronto celebrating Canada's progress in industry, arts, sciences and sports.

In Britain, current marine laboratories that originate from this time include the Dunstaffnage Marine Station ( today Scottish Association for Marine Science, 1884 ), the Gatty Marine Laboratory ( University of St Andrews, 1884 ), the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ( Plymouth, 1888 ), the Dove Marine Laboratory ( Newcastle University, 1897 ), the Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory ( Aberdeen, 1899 ), and the Bangor Marine Station ( Queen's University of Belfast, 1903 ).

The origin of the purple and white school colours was on and around the day of September 27, 1897, when the school was dedicated by the Governor General of Canada, the Earl of Aberdeen.

* 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.

* 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 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

This was not the case for all researchers in the field of the wireless arts, though .< ref > Prior to 1897 Tesla was transmitting signals to a distance of 30 miles from New York City to West Point.

In 1897, Dr. Philip O ' Hanlon, a coroner's assistant on Manhattan's Upper West Side, was asked by his then eight-year-old daughter, Virginia ( 1889 – 1971 ), whether Santa Claus really existed.

In 1897, Joseph Conrad penned a novella titled The Nigger of the Narcissus, whose titular character, James Wait, is a West Indian black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus sailing from Bombay to London.

Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard (; 4 February 1897 – 5 May 1977 ) was a German politician affiliated with the CDU and Chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966.

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.

He entered the service of the West India and Pacific Steam Navigation Company in 1897.

Renamed as West Hertfordshire in 1893, Rovers joined the Southern Football League in 1896, and started to pay professional footballers in 1897.

Also organized in 1897 were West Traverse Township ( from portions of Friendship and Little Traverse Townships ) and Egleston Township ( name changed to McKinley Township in 1903 ).

Westwood was first settled in 1640 and was part of the town of Dedham ( it was originally called ' West Dedham ') until it was officially incorporated in 1897.

The Ramona Theatre Pavilion was built in 1897 on the West Side of the Park on Lakeside Drive, overlooking Reeds Lake.

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.

Sketch of Elizabeth and West Elizabeth, Pennsylvania | West Elizabeth, circa 1897

Sketch showing Elizabeth, Pennsylvania | Elizabeth and West Elizabeth, PA, circa 1897

West Knoxville was annexed in 1897, and over 5, 000 new homes were built between 1895 and 1904.

< center > Bird's Eye View of Philippi, West Virginia, 1897

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.

A decade later, The Borough of West Telford was incorporated by decree of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Montgomery County of December 27, 1897.

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.

There was another native uprising under a Bantu chief named Galeshwe in Griqualand West in 1897, but Galeshwe was arrested and the rebellion ended.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

* Record FA Cup defeat – 0 – 6 v. Preston North End ( 30 January 1897 ), 2 – 8 v. Bradford Park Avenue ( 30 January 1946 )

Following its American success, Frohman booked Secret Service to open at the Adelphi Theatre on the West End in London on May 15, 1897, and it became the cornerstone of Frohman's achievements in England.

As larger cinemas were opened in the West End, business slowed and the Palais de Luxe was forced to close. The building complex incorporates Piccadilly Buildings an 1897 building which were the offices of British Mutoscope and Biograph Company an early producer of films. The building became their offices in 1897.

The old barrel-shaped roof on the Witton Lane Stand, the only remaining feature of the 1897 Villa Park, was removed in the summer of 1963 and replaced with a plain sloping roof in the same style as the Holte End.

In 1895 he left for Stalybridge Rovers but after falling out with the management moved to Ashton North End in 1897.

* East End Idylls ( 1897 )

In addition, for nearly 20 years from 1879 to 1897, she was the housekeeper of a boardinghouse in a two-story dwelling at 15 Village Street ( near the present corner of Dover East Berkeley Street and Tremont Streets in the South End.

Henry Tate established his business in 1869 in Liverpool, later expanding to Silvertown in the East End of London: he used his industrial fortune to found the Tate Gallery in London in 1897, and endowed it with his own collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings.

In 1897, Newman wrote Pseudo-Philosophy at the End of the Nineteenth Century, a critique of imprecise and subjective writing.

* 1897: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Chicago

During an interview with author Wilbur Siebert in 1897, Tubman revealed some of the names of helpers and places she used along the Underground Railroad.

Frisco Railroad bridge between Tulsa and Red Fork in 1897

Freight and passenger rail service was once provided by the Rahway Valley Railroad from 1897 up till 1992 when the small short line closed due to lack of customers.

In 1897 or shortly before, the Anderson and Bella Vista Railroad was constructed by the Terry Lumber Company from Anderson to Bella Vista, passing through the settlement of Palo Cedro.

The South Georgia Railroad was built through Morven in 1897.

In 1897 the Interurban Railroad was born in Anderson.

The east-west rail line was originally incorporated as the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railroad, which was renamed several times during financial restructuring and changing hands numerous times, until in 1897 it became the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad.

The completion of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad ( G & SIRR ) from Gulfport, Mississippi, to Jackson, Mississippi, ran through Hattiesburg and ushered in the real lumber boom in 1897.

Representatives of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad purchased the peninsula for $ 256, 000 in 1897, and formed the Cedar Point Pleasure Resort Company.

The new company also declared bankruptcy, in 1893, but emerged on July 1, 1897, reverting to the original name, Union Pacific Railroad.

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.

From 1893 to 1897, Hampton served as United States Railroad Commissioner, appointed by President Grover Cleveland.

Railtown 1897 preserves a class C Shay, Sierra Railroad No. 2, and occasionally runs it as part of its excursion trains.

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

Over the ensuing decade, the line grew through construction and acquisition of other roads, such as the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway, to become a through route between Kansas City and Port Arthur, Texas, with the final spike being driven north of Beaumont, Texas, on September 11, 1897, the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad Company ( KCP & G ) was completed.

A six-ton, 60-cm gauge 4-4-0 built for the Tacubaya Railroad in 1897 was the smallest ever built by Baldwin for commercial use.

Harriman was nearly fifty years old when in 1897 he became a director of the Union Pacific Railroad.

* Sea View Railroad ( Coney Island Elevated ), acquired in November 1897 and leased to the BHRR

The Chicago Great Western, circa 1897. In 1854, the Legislature of the Territory of Minnesota had chartered the Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad ( M & NW ) to be built between Lake Superior, Minneapolis and Dubuque, Iowa.