In more recent times, the World Zionist Organization held its first congress in Basel on September 3, 1897.

The First Zionist Congress was held in Basel in 1897, and 15 out of a total of 22 congresses were held in Switzerland.

Weizmann missed the first Zionist conference, held in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland, because of travel problems, but he attended each one thereafter.

Published in Imber's first book ( Jerusalem, 1886 ) called Barkai ( lit: " The Shining Morning Star "), the poem was subsequently adopted as an anthem by the " Hovevei Zion " and later by the Zionist Movement at the First Zionist Congress in 1897.

; 1897: The First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, urges " a publicly and legally assured home in Palestine " for Jews and establishes the World Zionist Organization ( WZO ).

; 1897: The Zionist Organization of America ( ZOA ) is founded under the name Federation of American Zionists.

The origins of the flag's design date from the First Zionist Congress in 1897 ; the flag has subsequently been known as the " flag of Zion ".

In 1897, the first Zionist organization was established in Tbilisi.

In 1897, following the Basel Zionist Congress, which called for a Jewish national home " recognized in international law " ( Volkerrechtlich ), Ahad Ha ' am wrote an article called Jewish State Jewish Problem ridiculing the idea of a Volkerrechtlich state given the pitiful plight of the Jewish settlements in Palestine at the time.

The city is named after Leo Motzkin, one of the organizers of the First Zionist Congress in 1897.

War was first declared in Palestine by the Zionists in 1897 at the first Zionist Congress meeting in Basle, at which it was decided to establish a Jewish state in a country which was 99 per cent Arab in population and land-tenure.

* World Zionist Organization, the group founded at the First Zionist Congress in 1897 and dedicated to implementing Zionist ideology

It became a Jewish symbol starting in late medieval Prague, and was adopted by the First Zionist Congress in 1897.

In 1897, the First Zionist Congress was held in Basel, Switzerland, to consider establishing a homeland for Jews in Palestine.

The delegates at the First Zionist Congress, held in Basel, Switzerland ( 1897 ).

As a result, the Zionist movement, the modern movement for the creation of a homeland for the Jewish people, was established as a political movement in 1897.

Shimshi was a leading Zionist activist and one of the organizers of the first Zionist Congress in 1897.

A member of the B ' ne Moshe and Hoveve Zion movements in Ukraine, he was one of the organizers with Dr. Theodore Herzl of the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland in the fall of 1897.

Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov also transliterated as Todor Alexandrov ( Bulgarian: Тодор Александров ) also spelt Alexandroff, ( March 4, 1881-August 31, 1924 ) was a Bulgarian freedom fighter and member of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees ( BMARC ) since 1897 and later of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation ( IMRO ).

In 1897 Herzl organized the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, which founded the World Zionist Organisation ( WZO ) and elected Herzl as its first President.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

The first regular auto racing venue was Nice, France, run in late March, 1897, as a " Speed Week.

Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.

His attitude during the Greco-Turkish War ( 1897 ) was one of strict neutrality.

Arizona State Sun Devils football was founded in 1897 under coach Fred Irish.

The credit for detecting its value belongs to Gaston Paris, although his edition ( 1897 ) was partially anticipated by the editors of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, who published some selections in the twenty-seventh volume of their Scriptores ( 1885 ).

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

Forgotten for many years, the grave was discovered in 1897 and the Premier of New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes, had it restored.

Antoine Thomson d ' Abbadie d ' Arrast ( January 3, 1810 – March 19, 1897 ) was an Irish-French and Basque explorer, geographer, ethnologue, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in Ethiopia during the first half of the 19th century.

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.

Benjamin Lee Whorf ( April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941 ) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer.

The son of Harry and Sarah ( Lee ) Whorf, Benjamin Lee Whorf was born on April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

The rule was subsequently ended in 1897.

The Achaemenid collection was enhanced with the addition of the Oxus Treasure in 1897, by acquisition from the German scholar Ernst Herzfeld, and then by the work of Sir Aurel Stein.

Waldemar Haffkine, a doctor who worked in Bombay, India, was the first to invent and test a plague vaccine against bubonic plague 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.

The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.

The one who did the most to help Peirce in these desperate times was his old friend William James, dedicating his Will to Believe ( 1897 ) to Peirce, and arranging for Peirce to be paid to give two series of lectures at or near Harvard ( 1898 and 1903 ).

In 1897, Coolidge was admitted to the bar, becoming a country lawyer