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  • Madrid, Spain
    1897
    Pablo Picasso

    Education

    Madrid, Spain
    1897

    Picasso's father and uncle decided to send the young artist to Madrid's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the country's foremost art school. At age 16, Picasso set off for the first time on his own, but he disliked formal instruction and stopped attending classes soon after enrollment.




  • Germany
    1897
    Max Planck

    He published his treatise on Thermodynamics

    Germany
    1897

    He published his Treatise on Thermodynamics in 1897. He proposed a thermodynamic basis for Svante Arrhenius's theory of electrolytic dissociation.




  • Germany
    1897
    Incandescent light bulb

    The Nernst Lamp

    Germany
    1897

    In 1897, German physicist and chemist Walther Nernst developed the Nernst lamp, a form of incandescent lamp that used a ceramic globar and did not require enclosure in a vacuum or inert gas. Twice as efficient as carbon filament lamps, Nernst lamps were briefly popular until overtaken by lamps using metal filaments.




  • France
    1897
    Antibiotic

    The First Known Scholarly work to consider the Therapeutic capabilities of Molds resulting from their Anti-Microbial activity

    France
    1897

    In 1897, doctoral student Ernest Duchesne submitted a dissertation, "Contribution à l'étude de la concurrence vitale chez les micro-organismes: antagonisme entre les moisissures et les microbes" (Contribution to the study of vital competition in micro-organisms: antagonism between molds and microbes), the first known scholarly work to consider the therapeutic capabilities of molds resulting from their anti-microbial activity.




  • Huntington, West Virginia, U.S.
    1897
    Carter G. Woodson

    Douglass received his diploma

    Huntington, West Virginia, U.S.
    1897

    Douglass received his diploma in 1897.




  • Eastern Siberia, Russian Empire
    Feb, 1897
    Vladimir Lenin

    3 years exile

    Eastern Siberia, Russian Empire
    Feb, 1897

    In February 1897, he was sentenced without trial to three years' exile in eastern Siberia. He was granted a few days in Saint Petersburg to put his affairs in order and used this time to meet with the Social-Democrats, who had renamed themselves the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class.




  • Kaiserswerther Str., Berlin, German Empire (Present day Germany)
    Apr, 1897
    Gustav Stresemann

    Joining the University of Berlin

    Kaiserswerther Str., Berlin, German Empire (Present day Germany)
    Apr, 1897

    In April 1897, Stresemann enrolled in the University of Berlin, where he was convinced by a businessman to study political economy instead of literature.


  • Lyon, France
    1897
    Penicillin

    Ernest Duchesne independently discovered the healing properties of a Penicillium glaucum mold

    Lyon, France
    1897

    Ernest Duchesne at École du Service de Santé Militaire in Lyon independently discovered the healing properties of a Penicillium glaucum mold, even curing infected guinea pigs of typhoid. He published a dissertation in 1897 but it was ignored by the Institut Pasteur.


  • Oslo, Norway
    Monday Apr 26, 1897
    Nobel Prize

    Approving the well

    Oslo, Norway
    Monday Apr 26, 1897

    Owing to skepticism surrounding the will, it was not approved by the Storting in Norway until 26 April 1897.


  • Norway and Sweden
    Monday Jun 7, 1897
    Nobel Prize

    Awarding members

    Norway and Sweden
    Monday Jun 7, 1897

    Nobel's instructions named a Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize, the members of whom were appointed shortly after the will was approved in April 1897. Soon thereafter, the other prize-awarding organizations were designated. These were Karolinska Institute on 7 June, the Swedish Academy on 9 June, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on 11 June.


  • Winona, West Virginia, U.S.
    1897
    Carter G. Woodson

    Woodson taught at Winona

    Winona, West Virginia, U.S.
    1897

    From 1897 to 1900, Woodson taught at Winona.


  • U.S.
    1897
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Du Bois presented a paper in which he rejected Frederick Douglass's plea for black Americans to integrate into white society

    U.S.
    1897

    While taking part in the American Negro Academy (ANA) in 1897, Du Bois presented a paper in which he rejected Frederick Douglass's plea for black Americans to integrate into white society. He wrote: "we are Negroes, members of a vast historic race that from the very dawn of creation has slept, but half awakening in the dark forests of its African fatherland".


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    1897
    Library of Congress

    From the Capitol building to its new headquarters

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    1897

    It moved from the Capitol building to its new headquarters in 1897 with more than 840,000 volumes, 40 percent of which had been acquired through copyright deposit.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    1897
    Library of Congress

    John Russell Young in the office

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    1897

    The Library of Congress, spurred by the 1897 reorganization, began to grow and develop more rapidly. Spofford's successor John Russell Young, though only in office for two years, overhauled the library's bureaucracy, used his connections as a former diplomat to acquire more materials from around the world, and established the library's first assistance programs for the blind and physically disabled.


  • Atlanta University, Georgia, U.S.
    Jul, 1897
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Du Bois left Philadelphia and took a professorship in history and economics at the historically black Atlanta University

    Atlanta University, Georgia, U.S.
    Jul, 1897

    In July 1897, Du Bois left Philadelphia and took a professorship in history and economics at the historically black Atlanta University in Georgia.


  • Present-day Malakand, Pakistan
    Jul, 1897
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill volunteered to join Bindon Blood's Malakand Field Force

    Present-day Malakand, Pakistan
    Jul, 1897

    Churchill volunteered to join Bindon Blood's Malakand Field Force in its campaign against Mohmand rebels in the Swat Valley of north-west India. Blood accepted him on condition that he was assigned as a journalist, the beginning of Churchill's writing career.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Sunday Aug 1, 1897
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Strivings of the Negro People

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Sunday Aug 1, 1897

    In the August 1897 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Du Bois published "Strivings of the Negro People", his first work aimed at the general public, in which he enlarged upon his thesis that African Americans should embrace their African heritage while contributing to American society.


  • Chichester, West Sussex, England, U.K.
    1897
    Bicycle

    First Electric Bike

    Chichester, West Sussex, England, U.K.
    1897

    Most likely the first electric bicycle was built in 1897 by Hosea W. Libbey in England.


  • Present-day Bangalore, India
    Oct, 1897
    Winston Churchill

    First Book "The Story of the Malakand Field Force"

    Present-day Bangalore, India
    Oct, 1897

    Churchill returned to Bangalore in October 1897 and there wrote his first book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force, which received positive reviews. He also wrote his only work of fiction, Savrola, a Ruritanian romance. To keep himself fully occupied, Churchill embraced writing as what Roy Jenkins calls his "whole habit", especially through his political career when he was out of office. It was his main safeguard against recurring depression, which he termed his "black dog".


  • Rheydt, Mönchengladbach, Germany
    Friday Oct 29, 1897
    Joseph Goebbels

    Joseph Goebbels's Birth

    Rheydt, Mönchengladbach, Germany
    Friday Oct 29, 1897

    Paul Joseph Goebbels was born on 29 October 1897 in Rheydt, an industrial town south of Mönchengladbach near Düsseldorf, Germany. Both of his parents were Roman Catholics with modest family backgrounds.


  • Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy
    Wednesday Nov 24, 1897
    Lucky Luciano

    Birth

    Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy
    Wednesday Nov 24, 1897

    Salvatore Lucania was born on November 24, 1897, in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy.


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