* G. W. T. Omond, Asher, Alexander ( 1834 – 1905 ), rev.

), Prosopographia Imperii Romani, 3 vol., Berlin, 1897 – 1898.

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.

Glasgow, 1897 ), pp. 155 foll.

Blissymbols were invented by Charles K. Bliss ( 1897 – 1985 ), born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the Austro-Hungarian city of Czernowitz ( at present the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi ), which had a mixture of different nationalities that “ hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages .”

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 historic Chicago Cultural Center ( 1897 ), originally serving as the Chicago Public Library, now houses the city's Visitor Information Center, galleries and exhibit halls.

* Commodore ( shipwreck ), a steamer lost to a maritime disaster in 1897 that occurred off the coast of Daytona Beach, Florida, of which American novelist Stephen Crane was a surviving passenger

* John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough ( 1897 – 1972 ), elder son of the 9th Duke

The Dominicans of the province of France furnished Lacordaire ( 1835 – 1836, 1843 – 1851 ), Jacques Monsabré ( 1869 – 1870, 1872 – 1890 ), Joseph Ollivier ( 1871, 1897 ), Thomas Etourneau ( 1898 – 1902 ).

Edward Lippincott Tilton and William A. Boring won the 1897 competition to design the first phase, including the Main Building ( 1897 – 1900 ), Kitchen and Laundry Building ( 1900 – 01 ), Main Powerhouse ( 1900 – 01 ), and the Main Hospital Building ( 1900 – 01 ).

Education is the process of living and is not meant to be the preparation of future living ( Dewey, 1897 ), so school must represent the present life.

In 1897, King Gojong proclaimed the founding of the Korean Empire ( 1897 – 1910 ), and became emperor of Korea.

Blyton was born on 11 August 1897 at 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London, England, the eldest child of Thomas Carey Blyton ( 1870 – 1920 ), a salesman of cutlery, and his wife, Theresa Mary Harrison Blyton ( 1874 – 1950 ).

The term " fundamentalism " has its roots in the Niagara Bible Conference ( 1878 – 1897 ), which defined those tenets it considered fundamental to Christian belief.

Classic works of this Urban Gothic include Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ), George du Maurier's Trilby ( 1894 ), Richard Marsh's The Beetle: A Mystery ( 1897 ), Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw ( 1898 ), and the stories of Arthur Machen.

James Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Jr. ( December 18, 1897 – December 29, 1952 ) was an American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and swing music.

Built by his father in 1888, this house in Cuthbert, Georgia | Cuthbert, Georgia ( U. S. State ) | Georgia is where Fletcher Henderson was born in 1897.

* Download recording of a courtship song from the Library of Congress ' Omaha Indian Music Collection ; performed by George Miller in 1897, collected by Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche

* Media: Bice ' waan Song. ogg is a recording from the Library of Congress, collected by Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche and published in 1897.

Mary Ford was born Iris Colleen Summers in El Monte, California, the second daughter of Marshall McKinley Summers ( born February 13, 1896 in Ridgway, Illinois ; died August 5, 1981 in Los Angeles, California ), a Nazarene minister, who later became a painting contractor, and his wife, Dorothy May White Summers ( born April 5, 1897 in Missouri ; died February 22, 1988 in South El Monte, California ), and was the sister of Byron Fletcher Summers ( born December 25, 1918 in Missouri ; died April 2, 1994 ), Esther Eva Summers Wootten ( born 1922 in Los Angeles, California ), and Bruce Wendell Summers ( born February 22, 1929 in California ; died November 15, 2007 ).

Murray Fletcher Pratt ( 1897 – 1956 ) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history, particularly noted for his works on naval history and on the American Civil War.

Bice ' waan Song is a recording from the Library of Congress, collected by Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche and published in 1897.

from the University of Edinburgh in 1897, and was made a Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1900.

A bust of Masson was presented to the senate of the university of Edinburgh in 1897.

Edinburgh, 1897.

His life is featured in the book, The “ Blackwood ” Group by Sir George Douglas, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1897.

* Sir Herbert Maxwell, Dumfries and Galloway ( Edinburgh and London, 1897 );

The Mitchell-Thomson Baronetcy, of Polmood in the County of Peebles, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1900 for the first Baron's father, Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1897 to 1900.

In 1897 land was purchased, by the SFU, at Inverleith, Edinburgh.

In 1897 he was President of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club and gave the Toast to Sir Walter at the club's annual dinner.

* John Wellwood ( 1897 ), Norman Macleod, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, (" Famous Scots Series ").

See Annals of a Publishing House ; William Blackwood and his Sons ... ( 1897 – 1898 ), the first two volumes of which were written by Mrs Oliphant ; the third, dealing with John Blackwood, by his daughter, Mrs Gerald Porter.

* April 4-Margaret Oliphant ( died 1897 )

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant ( née Margaret Oliphant Wilson ) ( 4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897 ), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant.

" In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the British Medical Association.

In 1897 Dr. Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the British Medical Association.

* 1897 – Marian Anderson, American contralto ( d. 1993 )

* April 8 – Marian Anderson, American contralto ( b. 1897 )

* January 3 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress ( b. 1897 )

Marian Anderson ( February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993 ) was an African-American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century.

Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of John Berkley Anderson and the former Annie Delilah Rucker.

* John Anderson ( mayor ) ( 1820 – 1897 ), mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand

* John Anderson ( blacksmith ) ( 1820 – 1897 ), New Zealand blacksmith, engineer, businessman and local politician

* John Byers Anderson ( 1817 – 1897 ), educator, railroad contractor and United States Army officer

It was discovered in 1897 by Robert A. Nelson, Melville Anderson, and Will Fitzgerald, who crawled into a small opening next to a large, well-known spring.

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.

In 1897 the Interurban Railroad was born in Anderson.

: 15px This article incorporates text from Landmarks of Rensselaer County New York, by George Baker Anderson ( 1897 ), a publication now in the public domain.

The first cotton gin in the world to be operated by electricity was built in Anderson County in 1897.

He had left instructions that there was to be no religious ceremony, but that a record should be played of Schubert's " Ave Maria " sung by Marian Anderson, and that his granite headstone should read simply: " Wilhelm Reich, Born March 24, 1897, Died ..."

Shaw had already used her as inspiration for some of his plays before their first meeting in 1897 when he unsuccessfully tried to persuade " Mrs Pat " to play the role of Judith Anderson in the first production of his play The Devil's Disciple.

He met Marine Anderson at the Lutheran church in Everett, where they were married in 1897.

Born in Magee, New York in 1866, Anderson earned his PhD in 1897 at Cornell University.

* William Anderson ( Canadian politician born 1822 ) ( 1822 – 1897 ), Canadian politician

Charles Groves Wright Anderson VC, MC ( 12 February 1897 – 11 November 1988 ) was a South African-born, Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, a member of the Australian House of Representatives, and a farmer.