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| 1897 |
| | | To accommodate the increasing number of children, the Queen’s School is rebuilt on three storeys | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The British burn Benin City in a punitive expedition after members of a British delegation are murdered | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The first Zionist Congress is held in Basel with Theodor Herzl in the chair | |
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| c. 1897 |
| | | Diamond Jubilee bonfires and fireworks all round Briain celebrate Victoria's sixty years on the throne | |
|  | Diamond Jubilee Address from Adelaide in 1897
National Archives, Kew
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| 1897 |
| | | Turbinia, powered by the newly invented Parsons steam turbine, breaks the speed record when Queen Victoria reviews her fleet | |
|  | The Turbinia
Discovery Museum, Tyne and Wear
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| 1897 |
| | | Somerset Maugham publishes his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, based on the London life he has observed as a medical student | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Adolph Ochs, a new proprietor of The New York Times, coins the slogan 'All the News That's Fit to Print' | |
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| 1897 |
| | | English author Bram Stoker publishes Dracula, his gothic tale of vampirism in Transylvania | |
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| 1897 |
| | | British physician Ronald Ross identifies the Anopheles mosquito as the carrier of malaria | |
|  | Anopheles mosquito
Wellcome Photo Library
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| 1897 |
| | | Rachmaninov's First Symphony has a disastrous premiere in St Petersburg, probably caused by the incompetence of Glazunov as conductor | |
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