Important Historical Events of the year 1897, Year 1897 in History

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List of 1897 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1897

What happened in the year 1897?

Date	Event
February 1, 1897	Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
April 18, 1897	The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
April 30, 1897	J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
June 16, 1897	A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
June 22, 1897	British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
July 2, 1897	British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
July 11, 1897	Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon.
July 25, 1897	American author Jack London embarks on a sailing trip to take part in the Klondike's gold rush, from which he wrote his first successful stories.
July 26, 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.
August 2, 1897	Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
August 9, 1897	The first International Congress of Mathematicians is held in Zürich, Switzerland.
September 1, 1897	The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
September 10, 1897	Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
September 11, 1897	After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of the Kaffa.
September 12, 1897	Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
November 1, 1897	The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
November 1, 1897	Italian Sport-Club Juventus is founded by a group of students of Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio.
December 6, 1897	London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
December 30, 1897	The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.