1897

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( 1890s: )     1897
The Klondike Gold Rush starts
year 1897

Events

January–March

• January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard in a Newspaper contest, officially proposes the name "Nigeria," to be given to the British protectorate the Niger Coast Protectorate.
• February 16 – The French conquer the island of Raiatea and capture the rebel chief Teraupoo, ending the Leeward Islands War and bringing all of the Society Islands under their control.
• February 18 – Benin is put to the torch by the British Army's Benin Expedition. Ovonramwen, Oba of Benin, is exiled from his kingdom and the Benin Bronzes are carried off to London.
• February 27 – The French military governor of Madagascar, Joseph Gallieni, exiles Queen Ranavalona III to Réunion, abolishing the monarchy the next day.
• March 4 – William McKinley is sworn in as the 25th President of the United States.

April–June

• • Yamaichi Securities founded in Japan, although a hundred years later, this securities company was closed and disbanded.
• May 14 (or May 15) – - The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK) is founded in Berlin as an LGBT campaigning organization, the first such in history.
• June 22 – The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria is celebrated in the United Kingdom. No other British monarch will celebrate such a jubilee until Elizabeth II in 2012.

July–September

• July 17 – The Klondike Gold Rush begins when the first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle.
• August 10 – At the Bayer pharmaceutical company, pharmacist Felix Hoffmann successfully synthesizes acetylsalicylic acid, after isolating a compound from a plant of the Spiraea family; the company markets it under the brand name "Aspirin".
• August 29 – The First Zionist Congress convenes in Basel, Switzerland.
• August 31 – Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a precursor of the movie projector
• September 10 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania.
• September 20 – Greece and Turkey sign a peace treaty to end the Greco-Turkish War.

October–December

• October 2 – The first issue of the Australian radical paper Tocsin is published.
• October 5 – After a long siege, Brazilian government troops take Canudos in north Brazil, crushing Antônio Conselheiro and his followers.
• October 12 - The Joseon Kingdom becomes the Korean Empire, ending the Joseon era which has existed since 1392.
• December 14 – Pact of Biak-na-Bato: The Philippine Revolution is settled, with Spanish promises to reform.
• December 30 – Natal annexes Zululand.

Date unknown

• Karl Lueger becomes mayor of Vienna.

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901
Dreyfus Affair	November 1894	1906

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
San Diego State University			University in San Diego, California
World Zionist Organization
Trinity Washington University			Founded as an elite Catholic liberal arts college for women, it by the 1980s chose to begin recruiting local underprivileged students, and became predominantly black and Hispanic.
Marconi Company		Military Commercial
Victoria University of Wellington		University	University in Wellington, New Zealand
Bradley University			Midwestern private university
Kyoto University		Research Public
National University of La Plata		Public	Not to be confused with Buenos Aires University
Dow Chemical			Big chemical corporation and producer of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war. Also known for the Bhopal explosion.

 

A Death

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary
Henry George	2 September 1839	29 October 1897	New York	Author Activist

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Frederick John Partington Veale	1897		1976	Academic Historian
Arthur Dean	1897	New York	1987	Lawyer Deep state operative	Chairman and senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he worked closely with John Foster Dulles
Husni al-Za'im	1897	Syria Aleppo	14 August 1949	Soldier Politician
Willy Bretscher	1897		1992	Editor Deep state functionary	Influential Swiss editor for many decades
Margaret Thomson Biddle	1897		June 1956	Spook Journalist Millionaire	American millionaire heiress and businesswoman. After World War 2 she started a salon in Paris frequented by many deep politicians.
Bill Mason	1897		29 July 1949	Journalist Lyndon Johnson/Body count
John Coleman	1897		1959	Businessperson	Chairman of the Committee for a National Trade Policy out of which the American network for participation in the Bilderberg grew. "Through its leaders in Washington, big business is now in a position to perform great services for the American people".
William Stephenson	23 January 1897	Canada Manitoba Winnipeg	31 January 1989	Spook Pilot Businessperson
Edward Beddington-Behrens	2 February 1897	Paris	28 November 1968	Spook Soldier Businessperson	Deputy Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service for a year during WW2. Attended the 1958 Bilderberg.
Ivone Kirkpatrick	3 February 1897		25 May 1964	Diplomat Spook	British diplomat and spook who was made British High Commissioner in Germany after World War II, and as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the highest-ranking civil servant in the Foreign Office, where he was one of the main people responsible for the failed attempt to seize the Suez Canal Zone in 1956.
Ludwig Erhard	4 February 1897	Fürth Bavaria	5 May 1977	Politician	Single Bilderberg, West German Minister for Economics for 14 years during the German "economic miracle".
Dirk Stikker	5 February 1897	Netherlands Winschoten	23 December 1979	Diplomat Politician Banker	Dutch Bilderberg diplomat and banker, Secretary General of NATO
C. J. Geddes	1 March 1897		2 May 1983	Union organizer	British trade union leader who later was knighted
Walter Winchell	7 April 1897	New York United States	20 February 1972	Commentator
Lester Pearson	23 April 1897	Canada Ontario Toronto Newtonbrook	27 December 1972	Diplomat Soldier Politician Deep state operative	Triple Bilderberger Canadian PM
William Foster	27 April 1897	New Jersey Westfield	15 October 1984	Deep state functionary	Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the 1960s
J. W. Beyen	2 May 1897	Netherlands Utrecht	29 April 1976	Diplomat Politician Financier	Bilderberg businessman
Roscoe Hillenkoetter	8 May 1897	Missouri St. Louis	18 June 1982
Einar Gerhardsen	10 May 1897		19 September 1987	Politician
John Sinclair	29 May 1897	Fulham	22 March 1977	Spook
John Slessor	3 June 1897		12 July 1979	Pilot	Founder of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Anthony Eden	12 June 1897	United Kingdom Windlestone Hall County Durham	14 January 1977	Politician	A UK Prime Minister who did not attend the Bilderberg, although his son did.
Victor Cavendish Bentinck	18 June 1897	London Marylebone	30 July 1990	Diplomat Deep state operative Businessperson	Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, diplomat, 7 Bilderbergs
Graves Erskine	28 June 1897	Columbia Louisiana	21 May 1973	Soldier Deep state functionary	US soldier picked in 1953 to head up the Office of Special Operations for the US Deep State.
Harald Knudtzon	6 July 1897	Denmark Hummeltofte	26 January 1980	Banker	Single Bilderberg Danish financier
Manlio Brosio	10 July 1897	Italy Turin	14 March 1980	Diplomat Politician Lawyer	The last Secretary General of NATO who was appointed before he attended the Bilderberg.
Thomas Dugdale	20 July 1897		26 March 1977	Politician	British Conservative Party politician
Niels Werring Sr	4 August 1897	Norway Kristiansund Møre og Romsdal	19 August 1990	Shipping magnate	Father of 14 times Bilderberger Norwegian ship owner
Jacques de Nervo	31 August 1897	France Val-d'Oise Margency	27 June 1990	Deep politician Industrialist	French patron and steel maker. The first meeting of the European members of the Bilderberg steering committee occurred in his Paris apartment in 1952.
Tom Williamson	2 September 1897		27 February 1983	Politician Union organizer	UK trade unionist who attended the first and fourth Bilderbergs. Later knighted.
Gerhard P. Th. Geyer	5 September 1897		14 February 1972	Businessperson	Esso director who attended the 1st and 4th Bilderbergs
Giovanni Montini	26 September 1897	Italy Brescia Concesio	6 August 1978	Clergy
Graham Towers	29 September 1897	Montreal Quebec	4 December 1975	Central banker	First Governor of the Bank of Canada. Unintentionally revealed how banking works.
Charles Jocelyn Hambro	3 October 1897		1963	Spook Banker	spooky UK banker. SOE head
Berkeley Ormerod	3 October 1897	United Kingdom Middlesex Edmonton	1 November 1983	Diplomat Spook Soldier Athlete
Walker Cisler	8 October 1897	Ohio Marietta	18 October 1994	Engineer Businessperson	As well as the first Bilderberg, he attended the next four, and 3 more in the early 1960s, US businessman
Morehead Patterson	9 October 1897	North Carolina Durham		Diplomat Inventor Businessperson	CEO of American Machine and Foundry, which he made one of the pillars of the US military-industrial complex, hiring former CIA director Walter Bedell Smith as vice-chairman. Attended the February 1957 Bilderberg
Nathan Twining	11 October 1897	Wisconsin Monroe	29 March 1982	Soldier	Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960
Thomas Olsen	15 October 1897	Norway Hvitsten	20 June 1969	Deep politician Shipping magnate	Norwegian shipowner and secret leader of the militia Samfundsvernet
Hans Speidel	28 October 1897	Germany Metzingen	28 November 1984	Soldier	Oversaw the smooth integration of the Bundeswehr into NATO
Joseph Goebbels	29 October 1897	Germany Rheydt	1 May 1945	Politician Propagandist	Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Adolf Hitler
Richard Russell	2 November 1897	United States Georgia Winder	21 January 1971	Lawyer
Allan Adair	3 November 1897	London United Kingdom	4 August 1988	Soldier
Jacobus Oldenbroek	10 November 1897	Netherlands Amsterdam	7 March 1970	Union organizer	Worked with Office of Strategic Services during WW2. Attended 2 Bilderbergs as General Secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
Aneurin Bevan	15 November 1897	Wales Monmouthshire Tredegar	6 July 1960
Andreas Aulie	17 November 1897		17 January 1990	Lawyer Deep state operative	Norwegian Director of Public Prosecutions 1946-1967
Alfred Stern	29 November 1897		June 1986	Spook
Alfred Roberts	30 November 1897		18 November 1963	Union organizer	British trade unionist who attended the 1958 Bilderberg as ILO/Vice chair
Drew Pearson	13 December 1897	US Illinois Evanston	1 September 1969	Journalist
Jay Lovestone	15 December 1897	Moǔchadz Grodno gubernia Russia/Tsarist Russia	7 March 1990	Spook Activist	US communist who ended up working for James Jesus Angleton

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