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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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| 1898 |
| | | Germany passes the first of four Fleet Acts, reflecting the determination of Alfred von Tirpitz to build a navy equal to that of Britain | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Émile Zola sends an open letter to the French president, headed 'J'accuse!', drawing attention to the injustice done to Alfred Dreyfus | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes Women and Economics, developing the feminist theme in US cultural and political life | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The National Consumers' League, headed by Florence Kelley, fights for improved conditions in the US factories making consumer goods | |
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