1897

1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1897th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 897th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1897, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1897 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1897 MDCCCXCVII
Ab urbe condita	2650
Armenian calendar	1346 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԶ
Assyrian calendar	6647
Bahá'í calendar	53–54
Balinese saka calendar	1818–1819
Bengali calendar	1304
Berber calendar	2847
British Regnal year	60 Vict. 1 – 61 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2441
Burmese calendar	1259
Byzantine calendar	7405–7406
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4593 or 4533     — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4594 or 4534
Coptic calendar	1613–1614
Discordian calendar	3063
Ethiopian calendar	1889–1890
Hebrew calendar	5657–5658
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1953–1954
- Shaka Samvat	1818–1819
- Kali Yuga	4997–4998
Holocene calendar	11897
Igbo calendar	897–898
Iranian calendar	1275–1276
Islamic calendar	1314–1315
Japanese calendar	Meiji 30 (明治３０年)
Javanese calendar	1826–1827
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4230
Minguo calendar	15 before ROC 民前15年
Nanakshahi calendar	429
Thai solar calendar	2439–2440
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Monkey) 2023 or 1642 or 870     — to — མེ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Bird) 2024 or 1643 or 871

Events

• March 4 – William McKinley becomes the 25th President of the United States, a title which he held from the retirement of Grover Cleveland until his assassination on September 14, 1901.
• March 13 – San Diego State University is founded.
• June 22 – The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria is celebrated in the United Kingdom, marking her 60th year as the Queen of the United Kingdom. She was the only British monarch to have celebrated a Diamond Jubilee until Queen Elizabeth II celebrated hers on June 2, 2012.
• July 17 – The Klondike Gold Rush begins.
• January 28 – The Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 was amended by the British Raj within British India in 1897.
• August 21 – The Oldsmobile is founded in Lansing, Michigan by Ransom E. Olds.
• September 1 – The Boston subway opens as the first rapid transit in North America.
• November 1 – The Juventus F.C. football club is founded.

Births

January

February

Ludwig Erhard

• February 4 – Ludwig Erhard, German politician (d. 1977)

March

• March 1 – Shoghi Effendi, Persian man (d. 1957)
• March 24 – Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (d. 1957)
• March 28 – Sepp Herberger, German football player (d. 1977)

April

• April 4 – Dina Manfredini, Italian-American supercentenarian (d. 2012)
• April 19 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2013)
• April 23 – Lester B. Pearson Prime Minister (d. 1972)
• April 26 – Douglas Sirk, German movie director (d. 1987)
• April 30 – Walt Walsh, American baseball player (d. 1966)

May

• May 30 – Frank Wise, 16th Premier of Western Australia (1945-1947) (d. 1986)

June

Anthony Eden

• June 7 – George Szell, Hungarian-born conductor (d. 1970)
• June 10 – Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
• June 12 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of United Kingdom (1955-1957) (d. 1977)
• June 19 – Moe Howard, American actor & comedian (d. 1975)

July

Plaek Phibunsongkhram

Tadeus Reichstein

Amelia Earhart

• July 4 – Jake Forbes, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
• July 9 – Albert Coady Wedemeyer, American army officer (d. 1989)
• July 14 – Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1964)
• July 20 – Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist (d. 1996)
• July 24 – Amelia Earhart, American aviator (d. 1937)

August

Yun Posun

• August 2 – Max Weber Swiss politician (d. 1974)
• August 11 – Enid Blyton, children's writer (d. 1968)
• August 12 – Otto Struve, Russian astronomer (d. 1963)
• August 16 – Hersch Lauterpacht, Polish politician & judge (d. 1960)
• August 19 – Roman Vishniac, Russian-American photographer (d. 1990)
• August 26 – Yun Poson, President of South Korea (1960-1962) (d. 1990)
• August 31 – Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975)

September

Walter Pidgeon

Pope Paul VI

• September 12 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French scientist (d. 1956)
• September 23 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (d. 1994)
• September 23 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (d. 1984)
• September 25 – William Faulkner, American writer (d. 1962)
• September 26 – Pope Paul VI, (d. 1978)

October

• October 8 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American movie director (d. 1987)
• October 22 – Ettore Boiardi, Italian-American chef (d. 1985)
• October 29 – Joseph Goebbels, German politician (d. 1945)

November

• November 16 – Chaudhry Rahmat Ali, known for coining the name "Pakistan" (d. 1951)
• November 22 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
• November 24 – Lucky Luciano, Sicilian mobster (d. 1962)

December

• December 7 – Lazare Ponticelli, French World War I veteran (d. 2008)
• December 14 – Kurt Schuschnigg, 15th Chancellor of Austria (d. 1977)
• December 24 – Koto Okubo, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2013)

Deaths

• February 19 – Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (b. 1815)