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.

Beatty then took command of Fateh between October 1897 and August 1898 when the gunboats were frequently in action advancing along the Nile ahead of the army.

The British Post Office adopted it for a simplex circuit between London and Paris during 1897, then used it for more general purposes from 1898.

In 1897, this company was liquidated, and its interests were sold first to William Ansel Kinney, and then to Fred Wunderburg.

The playing of the song two years later during the seventh-inning stretch of the 1918 World Series, and thereafter during each game of the series is often noted as the first instance that the anthem was played at a baseball game, though evidence shows that the " Star-Spangled Banner " was performed as early as 1897 at opening day ceremonies in Philadelphia and then more regularly at the Polo Grounds in New York City beginning in 1898.

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.

Athol Estes Porter died on July 25, 1897, from tuberculosis ( then known as consumption ).

Germinal in 1885, then the three ' cities ', Lourdes in 1894, Rome in 1896 and Paris in 1897, established Zola as a successful author.

By 1897, the Maxim company had become important enough that it received a buyout offer from Vickers, one of the then giants of the armaments industry.

Liza of Lambeth ( 1897 ) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London.

The Australian Football League ( which was then known as the Victorian Football League ) was the first league to introduce regular finals when the league was established in 1897.

* The Royal Cambridge Music Hall, 136 Commercial Street ( 1864 – 1936 ), was destroyed by fire in 1896, then rebuilt in 1897 by Finch Hill, architect of the Britannia Theatre, in nearby Hoxton.

The history of the carferries in Ludington begins much earlier then the completion of the first steel hulled carferry in 1897.

In 1897 Batesville decided to stop the use of the electric lamps because of the rates that people had to pay to keep them going, but then in 1898 Batesville decided that they would reduce the rates and only use the lamps when needed.

The first official township road began in 1897 on the south shore of Lake Bemidji, ran along the east shore of Lake Irving, into the Carr Lake community continuing south and then west across the Schoolcraft and along the west shore of Lake Plantagenet, taking travelers to Park Rapids.

South Atlantic City was reincorporated as a city on April 23, 1897, and then reincorporated with the name Margate City April 20, 1909.

The then premier, Sir John Forrest, laid the foundation stone for the markets on Saturday 6 November 1897.

The Gomersal Tunnel is long and around deep, directly under the Shoulder of Mutton pub in Oxford Road at Great Gomersal ( the LNWR bought the pub in 1897 in case it fell into the tunnel workings ) and then the line opened into Gomersal Station in Moor Lane, a four minute train ride from Cleckheaton Spen.

Acomb FC was a founding member of the York Football League in 1897 and then a founding member of the Yorkshire Football League in 1920.

He was again beaten during the 1896 elections in Neuilly, as a candidate of the Socialist leader Jean Jaurès, and then again in 1897 as a nationalist antisemitic candidate, having broken with the left-wing during the Dreyfus Affair.

It was renamed " the " in 1886, and then in 1897 when the Imperial University system was created.

* O. Depont and X. Coppolani, " Les confreries religieuses musulmans " ( the Muslim brotherhoods as they existed then ), Algiers, 1897

However, the MSLR, by then part of the Great Central Railway, built a dock and transhipment warehouse at Brayford in 1897.

In 1856 trains first linked the city to Olten and Basel, then Zug and Zurich in 1864 and finally to the south in 1897.

Originally named Alex Wilson and Company, then Vauxhall Iron Works from 1897, the company built pumps and marine engines.

Beatty gained recognition in the campaign for the recapture of the Sudan ( 1897 – 1899 ) commanded by Lord Kitchener.

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

The first mathematical analysis of electromagnetic waves in a metal cylinder was performed by Lord Rayleigh in 1897.

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

1895 ), in which the prominent ethnologist is seen performing an incantation in a Zuñi pueblo ; Professor Henry A. Rowland ( 1897 ), a brilliant scientist whose study of spectroscopy revolutionized his field ; Antiquated Music ( 1900 ), in which Mrs. William D. Frishmuth is shown seated amidst her collection of musical instruments ; and The Concert Singer ( 1890 – 92 ), for which Eakins asked Weda Cook to sing " O rest in the Lord ", so that he could study the muscles of her throat and mouth.

Two 20th-century Lord Chancellors, F. E. Smith ( Lord Birkenhead ) and John Simon, were undergraduates together in the 1890s, along with the sportsman C. B. Fry ; Sir Thomas Beecham was an undergraduate in 1897, though soon abandoning Oxford for his musical career.

His works include an oratorio Rebekah, The Lord is King ( Psalm 97 ), many services and anthems, and 246 hymn tunes ( published in 1897 in one volume ), as well as some partsongs ( among them the popular Sweet and Low ), and some pieces for the pipe organ.

* Thomas Moore, Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald ( 2 vols., London, 1832 ), also a revised edition entitled The Memoirs of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, edited with supplementary particulars by Martin MacDermott ( London, 1897 )

Lord Charnwood, London: Macmillan, 1897, 2nd ed., 1901 ).

A protégé of Lord Roberts, he was seconded to the staff in 1895, and in 1897, he became Brigade Major of the 3rd Brigade at Aldershot, and from 1899 to 1901 he saw active service during the Second Boer War with the 4th ( Light ) Brigade ( as a Brigade Major ) before becoming Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General and assistant military secretary to Lord Roberts and was Mentioned in Despatches, awarded the Distinguished Service Order, and was recommended for brevet promotion to lieutenant-colonel on attaining a substantive majority.

William Vestey ( later Lord Vestey ) and his younger brother Edmund ( later Sir Edmund ) established the Vestey empire in 1897 from a family butchery business in Liverpool.

When the panelling came up for sale in Paris in 1897, the 1st Lord Astor recognised that it would exactly fit this room at Cliveden.

In 1897 the 1st Lord Astor imported a section of a Californian redwood and had it installed in the woods.

It was sculpted by Thomas Waldo Story, ( American, 1855 – 1915 ) in Rome in 1897 and was commissioned by Lord Astor for this site.

The new Lord Rosmead returned to South Africa later in the year, but was compelled by ill-health, in April 1897, to quit his post.

Other subjects included two Lord Chancellors ( the Earl of Selborne in 1882 and the Earl of Halsbury ) in 1897 ; The Speaker of the House of Commons, William Gully, ( 1897 ); senior legal figures the Lord Chief Justice Lord Alverstone ( 1912 ) and the Master of the Rolls Sir George Jessel ( 1881 ).