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UK-related events during the year of 1897
Events from the year 1897 in the United Kingdom . This year was the
Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria .
Incumbents
Events
Display in celebration of the
Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in
Coleraine (Ulster)
4 January – a British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the
Oba of Benin , leading to a
punitive expedition against
Benin .
8 January –
Frederick Temple enthroned as
Archbishop of Canterbury .
[1]
February – Barrow's Cliff near
Tintagel in north Cornwall is donated to the
National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty , its first coastal property.
18 February –
Benin is put to the torch by the British Army's
Benin Expedition . The
Benin Bronzes are carried back to London.
29 March –
Church of England encyclical replies to the Papal
Apostolicae Curiae (1896) defending the validity of Anglican orders.
[2]
[3]
8 April – Voluntary Schools Act provides voluntary elementary schools with annual Exchequer grants of up to five shillings per child and exempts the schools from paying rates.
[4]
10 April –
Aston Villa F.C. win the
FA Cup with a 3–2 win over
Everton in the
final at
Crystal Palace . Having already sealed the
Football League title, they have completed
the double .
[5]
17 April – double winners Aston Villa move into their new stadium,
Villa Park in Birmingham.
[6]
30 April –
J. J. Thomson first announces his discovery of the
electron .
10 May – the
Blue Cross animal welfare charity is founded as Our Dumb Friends League in London, a "society for the encouragement of kindness to animals".
[7]
13 May –
Guglielmo Marconi sends his first
wireless communication over open sea when the message "Are you ready" is transmitted across the
Bristol Channel from
Lavernock Point in
South Wales to
Flat Holm Island, a distance of 3.7 miles (6.0 km).
[8]
19 May – the Anglo-Irish writer
Oscar Wilde is released from prison and goes into exile on the Continent.
22 May – the
Blackwall Tunnel , at this time the longest underwater road tunnel in the world, is opened for traffic beneath the
River Thames in the
East End of London by the
Prince of Wales .
[9]
22 June –
Queen Victoria celebrates her accession to the throne in 1837 with her
Diamond Jubilee celebrations, centred on London but with beacons lit across the country.
26 June – at the
Diamond Jubilee
Fleet Review at
Spithead ,
Charles Parsons gives an audacious unscheduled display before the world's navies of the unprecedented speed attainable by his
steam turbine -powered
Turbinia .
[10]
July
1 July –
Workmen's Compensation Act introduces a form of no-fault
workman's compensation in dangerous trades.
[12]
2 July –
Yorkshire Dialect Society founded, the oldest such society in England.
21 July – the
Tate Gallery opens in London.
[2]
26 July–2 August –
Siege of Malakand – British troops besieged by
Pashtun tribesmen in
Malakand .
10 August – the Automobile Club of Great Britain (later known as the
Royal Automobile Club ) founded in London.
[9]
19 August –
Bersey electric cabs , the first horseless
taxicabs , begin operating in London.
[9]
20 August
10 September – first conviction for
drink-driving given, to London taxi driver George Smith.
[9]
12 September –
Battle of Saragarhi : 21 Sikhs from the
36th Sikhs regiment of the
British Indian Army battle 10,000 Afghans to the death.
[9]
13 October –
HMS Canopus , a
pre-dreadnought battleship of the
Royal Navy , is launched at
Portsmouth ; she will be deployed widely in World War I.
16 November –
Salomon v A Salomon & Co Ltd , a landmark case in
United Kingdom company law , is decided in the House of Lords: creditors of an insolvent company cannot not sue the company's shareholders individually to pay up outstanding debts.
Undated
Publications
Births
8 January –
Dennis Wheatley , writer (died 1977)
25 February –
Peter Llewelyn Davies , soldier and publisher (died 1960)
27 February –
Edgar Henry Banger , cartoonist (died 1968)
15 March –
Albert "Smiler" Marshall , World War I cavalryman (died 2005)
25 March –
John Laurie , actor (died 1980)
26 March –
David McCallum, Sr. , violinist (died 1972)
14 April –
Barbara Wootton , sociologist (died 1988)
16 April –
John Bagot Glubb , soldier and author (died 1986)
27 May –
John Cockcroft , physicist (died 1967)
12 June
15 July –
R. J. Yeatman , humorist (died 1968)
28 July –
Kingsley Martin , political editor (died 1969)
29 July –
Neil Ritchie , general (died 1983)
11 August –
Enid Blyton , children's writer (died 1968)
1 September –
Andy Kennedy , footballer (died 1963)
3 September –
Cecil Parker (Schwabe), film actor (died 1971)
9 November –
Ronald Norrish , chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died 1978)
15 November
18 November –
Derek McCulloch ("Uncle Mac"), presenter for BBC children's programmes (died 1967)
9 December –
Hermione Gingold , actress (died 1987 in the United States)
Deaths
22 January –
Sir Isaac Pitman , inventor of
Pitman Shorthand (born 1813)
15 March –
James Joseph Sylvester , mathematician (born 1814)
19 June –
Charles Boycott , land agent, origin of the word "
boycott " (born 1832)
21 July –
A. J. Mundella , hosiery manufacturer and reforming Liberal politician (born 1825)
19 August –
George Palmer , biscuit manufacturer (born 1818)
28 August –
John Braxton Hicks , obstetrician (born 1823)
15 October –
Charles Vaughan , scholar and churchman (born 1816)
27 October –
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (Duchess of Teck), member of the royal family (born 1833)
16 December –
William Terriss , actor (born 1847)
See also
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"Education in England: a history" . HDA. Retrieved 24 October 2020 .
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"FA Cup Final: 1897 – Aston Villa 3 Everton 2" . Archived from
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"Blue Cross: 100 not out" . Mature Times . 1 August 2006. Archived from
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^
"Marconi's Waves" .
BBC Wales . Archived from
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