In 1897, the United States ' Nicaraguan Canal Commission proposed this idea, as did the subsequent Isthmian Canal Commission in 1899.

Dewar was also the President of the Chemical Society in 1897 and the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1902, as well as serving on the Royal Commission established to examine London's water supply from 1893 to 1894 and the Committee on Explosives.

* J. J. McAlester ( 1842 – 1920 ), U. S. Marshal for Indian Territory ( 1893 – 1897 ), Confederate Army captain, merchant in and founder of McAlester, Oklahoma as well as the developer of the coal mining industry in eastern Oklahoma, one of three members of the first Oklahoma Corporation Commission ( 1907 – 1911 ) and the second Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma ( 1911 – 1915 ).

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In 1897, he took part in an Amazonian expedition and in 1898 went to Italy as part of the Malaria Commission, followed by a trip to Africa to study malaria.

A Commission had attempted recently to revive the school by securing the brilliant and academically distinguished T. E. Brown ( 1830 – 1897 ) as headmaster.

The Free Harbor Fight was settled when San Pedro was endorsed in 1897 by a commission headed by Rear Admiral John C. Walker ( who later went to become the chair of the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1904 ).

In 1897 he was appointed, jointly with Lord Justice Collins, to represent Great Britain on the Venezuela Boundary Commission, which met in Paris in the spring of 1899.

After the first hatchery was destroyed by fire in 1893, Hume he built a new hatchery in 1895, and in 1897 he co-operated with the United States Fish Commission in building and operating an egg-collecting station at the mouth of Elk Creek on the upper Rogue.

The Tennessee Public Service Commission originated in 1897 as an elected three-member state Railroad Commission, vested with the authority to investigate the rates and practices of railroads and to approve rail tariffs.

In 1897 he became Secretary to the West Indian Royal Commission, and during 1898 he went to Washington to take part in trade negotiations on behalf of the West Indian Colonies.

In 1897 the Charity Commission found the Hospital was housing only 16 widows, and by 1921 this number had fallen to 13.

Soon after retiring as a full admiral in 1897, Walker was chosen to serve as President of the Nicaragua Canal Commission.

* Historical Manuscripts Commission, The Manuscripts of the Earl of Carlisle, preserved at Castle Howard ( London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1897 ).

He served as a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education ( 1882 – 1890 ), Boston School Committee ( 1885 – 1888 ), Boston Art Commission ( 1885 – 1897 ), Boston Park Commission ( 1890 – 1896 ), Massachusetts Historical Society ( 1883 – 1897 ), and a trustee of the Boston Public Library in 1896.

Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Co., 167 U. S. 479 ( 1897 ), was an important early U. S. Supreme Court case in the development of American administrative law.

From 1897 to 1917, he served as a German delegate to the Egyptian National Debt Commission in Cairo, until the activities of that Commission were suspended in 1914 due to the Egyptian Declaration of War.

Weir published several special editions of Quebec Civil Codes and he served as Secretary of the Royal Commission to revise the Code of Civil Procedure in 1897.

* 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist ( d. 1897 )

* 1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist ( d. 1970 )

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.

One such lost piece, Pissarro's 1897 oil painting, " Rue St. Honoré, Apres Midi, Effet de Pluie ," was discovered hanging at Madrid's government-owned museum, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.

New Caledonia became a penal colony, and from the 1860s until the end of the transportations in 1897, about 22, 000 criminals and political prisoners were sent to New Caledonia, among them many Communards, including Henri de Rochefort and Louise Michel.

* 1897 – Louis de Cazenave, French supercentenarian ( d. 2008 )

* Oeuvres de Descartes edited by Charles Adam and Paul Tannery, Paris: Léopold Cerf, 1897 – 1913, 13 volumes ; new revised edition, Paris: Vrin-CNRS, 1964 – 1974, 11 vol.

The first person to employ the term as part of a publication's title was Edmond Demolins, another member of the Le Play School, whose article Géographie sociale de la France was published in 1896 and 1897.

* Contes de Pantruche et d ' ailleurs ( 1897 )

* Philippe de Trobriand ( 1816 – 1897 ), author, American military officer

* July 18 – Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco, ex-president of Brazil ( b. 1897 ) ( plane crash )

* Shéhérazade ( ouverture de féerie ) ( 1897 )

The part of Melissande was created by Sarah Bernhardt, who also was the original Photine of La Samaritaine ( Theatre de la Renaissance, 14 April 1897 ), a Biblical drama in three scenes taken from the gospel story of the woman of Samaria.

Edmond Rostand, aged 29, at the time of the first performance of Cyrano, 1898 The production of his heroic comedy of Cyrano de Bergerac ( 28 December 1897, Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin ), with Benoît-Constant Coquelin in the title-role, was a triumph.

In L ' Aiglon he chose a subject from Napoleonic history, suggested probably by Henri Welschinger's Roi de Rome, 1811-32 ( 1897 ), which contained much new information about the unhappy life of the Duke of Reichstadt, son of Napoleon I, and Marie Louise, under the surveillance of Metternich at the Schönbrunn Palace.

* Cyrano de Bergerac, 1897

A view toward the altar of the exquisitely ornate Mission Santa Clara de Asís chapel, circa 1897.

Jacques de Morgan conducted major excavations from 1897 until 1911.

* Welschinger, Le roi de Rome, 1811 – 32, ( Paris, 1897 )

* 1897, Sur certaines questions qui se rattachent au problème de Dirichlet

Concentrating on two plays and two novels from the period — Victorien Sardou's Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1893 ), Maurice Barrès's Les Déracinés ( 1897 ), Edmond Rostand's L ' Aiglon ( 1900 ), and André de Lorde and Gyp's Napoléonette ( 1913 ) Datta examines how writers and critics of the Belle Epoque exploited the Napoleonic legend for diverse political and cultural ends.

In 1897, the French poet Edmond Rostand published a play, Cyrano de Bergerac, on the subject of Cyrano's life.

* Harriet Jacobs ( 1813 – 1897 ), American abolitionist and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which was published in 1861 under the nom de plume of " Linda Brent.