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| 1897 |
| | | The Duc D'Orleans, who had been born at York House in 1869, buys the house and makes major alterations. These include a new east wing housing a museum and swimming pool, and walling the riverside grounds. | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The Spanish governor in Cuba is recalled to Spain, for pioneering the concept of the concentration camp | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Jewish composer Gustav Mahler is baptized a Christian so as to be eligible to conduct the Vienna Opera | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Zululand, annexed by Britain in 1887, is now merged with the colony of Natal | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Paul Kruger, prime minister of the Transvaal, forms an alliance with the other Boer republic, the Orange Free State | |
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| 1897 |
| | | English physicist Joseph John Thomson, working at the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, discovers the existence of the electron | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The UK colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, appoints enthusiastic imperialist Alfred Milner as high commissioner in South Africa | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Henry James views the feckless adults in Maisie's life through the eyes of the child herself in What Maisie Knew | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Germany claims Ruanda and Urundi as a joint colony adjacent to German East Africa | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The French exile the queen of Madagascar and claim the island as a French colony | |
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