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In the late 1890's. the British public is targeted by a well orchestrated propaganda campaign which tries to racket up the fear of a foreign invasion. | |
year 1897 |
Contents
Events
January–March
- January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard in a Newspaper contest, officially proposes the name "Nigeria," to be given to the British protectorate the Niger Coast Protectorate.
- February 16 – The French conquer the island of Raiatea and capture the rebel chief Teraupoo, ending the Leeward Islands War and bringing all of the Society Islands under their control.
- February 18 – Benin is put to the torch by the British Army's Benin Expedition. Ovonramwen, Oba of Benin, is exiled from his kingdom and the Benin Bronzes are carried off to London.
- February 27 – The French military governor of Madagascar, Joseph Gallieni, exiles Queen Ranavalona III to Réunion, abolishing the monarchy the next day.
- March 4 – William McKinley is sworn in as the 25th President of the United States.
April–June
- Yamaichi Securities founded in Japan, although a hundred years later, this securities company was closed and disbanded.
- May 14 (or May 15) – - The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK) is founded in Berlin as an LGBT campaigning organization, the first such in history.
- June 22 – The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria is celebrated in the United Kingdom. No other British monarch will celebrate such a jubilee until Elizabeth II in 2012.
July–September
- July 17 – The Klondike Gold Rush begins when the first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle.
- August 10 – At the Bayer pharmaceutical company, pharmacist Felix Hoffmann successfully synthesizes acetylsalicylic acid, after isolating a compound from a plant of the Spiraea family; the company markets it under the brand name "Aspirin".[1]
- August 29 – The First Zionist Congress convenes in Basel, Switzerland.
- August 31 – Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a precursor of the movie projector
- September 10 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania.
- September 20 – Greece and Turkey sign a peace treaty to end the Greco-Turkish War.
October–December
- October 2 – The first issue of the Australian radical paper Tocsin is published.
- October 5 – After a long siege, Brazilian government troops take Canudos in north Brazil, crushing Antônio Conselheiro and his followers.
- October 12 - The Joseon Kingdom becomes the Korean Empire, ending the Joseon era which has existed since 1392.
- December 14 – Pact of Biak-na-Bato: The Philippine Revolution is settled, with Spanish promises to reform.
- December 30 – Natal annexes Zululand.
Date unknown
- Karl Lueger becomes mayor of Vienna.
Events
Event | Start | End |
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Pax Brittanica | 1815 | 1915 |
Victorian era | 1840 | 1901 |
Dreyfus Affair | November 1894 | 1906 |
New Groups
Group | Image | Type | Description |
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Victoria University of Wellington | University | University in Wellington, New Zealand | |
Bradley University | Midwestern private university | ||
Kyoto University | Research Public | ||
National University of La Plata | Public | Not to be confused with Buenos Aires University | |
Dow Chemical | |||
San Diego State University | University in San Diego, California | ||
World Zionist Organization | |||
Trinity Washington University | Founded as an elite Catholic liberal arts college for women, it by the 1980s chose to begin recruiting local underprivileged students, and became predominantly black and Hispanic. | ||
Marconi Company | Military Commercial |
A Death
Title | Born | Died | Place of death | Summary |
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Henry George | 2 September 1839 | 29 October 1897 | New York | Author Activist |
Births
Title | Born | Place of birth | Died | Summary | Description |
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Frederick John Partington Veale | 1897 | 1976 | Academic Historian | ||
Arthur Dean | 1897 | New York | 1987 | Lawyer Deep state operative | Chairman and senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he worked closely with John Foster Dulles |
Husni al-Za'im | 1897 | Syria Aleppo | 14 August 1949 | Soldier Politician | |
Willy Bretscher | 1897 | 1992 | Editor Deep state functionary | Influential Swiss editor for many decades | |
Margaret Thomson Biddle | 1897 | June 1956 | Spook Journalist Millionaire | American millionaire heiress and businesswoman. After World War 2 she started a salon in Paris frequented by many deep politicians. | |
Bill Mason | 1897 | 29 July 1949 | Journalist Lyndon Johnson/Body count | ||
John Coleman | 1897 | 1959 | Businessperson | Chairman of the Committee for a National Trade Policy out of which the American network for participation in the Bilderberg grew. "Through its leaders in Washington, big business is now in a position to perform great services for the American people". | |
William Stephenson | 23 January 1897 | Canada Manitoba Winnipeg | 31 January 1989 | Spook Pilot Businessperson | |
Edward Beddington-Behrens | 2 February 1897 | Paris | 28 November 1968 | Spook Soldier Businessperson | Deputy Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service for a year during WW2. Attended the 1958 Bilderberg. |
Ivone Kirkpatrick | 3 February 1897 | 25 May 1964 | Diplomat Spook | British diplomat and spook who was made British High Commissioner in Germany after World War II, and as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the highest-ranking civil servant in the Foreign Office, where he was one of the main people responsible for the failed attempt to seize the Suez Canal Zone in 1956. | |
Ludwig Erhard | 4 February 1897 | Fürth Bavaria | 5 May 1977 | Politician | Single Bilderberg, West German Minister for Economics for 14 years during the German "economic miracle". |
Dirk Stikker | 5 February 1897 | Netherlands Winschoten | 23 December 1979 | Diplomat Politician Banker | Dutch Bilderberg diplomat and banker, Secretary General of NATO |
C. J. Geddes | 1 March 1897 | 2 May 1983 | Union organizer | British trade union leader who later was knighted | |
Walter Winchell | 7 April 1897 | New York United States | 20 February 1972 | Commentator | |
Lester Pearson | 23 April 1897 | Canada Ontario Toronto Newtonbrook | 27 December 1972 | Diplomat Soldier Politician Deep state operative | Triple Bilderberger Canadian PM |
William Foster | 27 April 1897 | New Jersey Westfield | 15 October 1984 | Deep state functionary | Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the 1960s |
J. W. Beyen | 2 May 1897 | Netherlands Utrecht | 29 April 1976 | Diplomat Politician Financier | Bilderberg businessman |
Roscoe Hillenkoetter | 8 May 1897 | Missouri St. Louis | 18 June 1982 | ||
Einar Gerhardsen | 10 May 1897 | 19 September 1987 | Politician | ||
John Sinclair | 29 May 1897 | Fulham | 22 March 1977 | Spook | |
John Slessor | 3 June 1897 | 12 July 1979 | Pilot | Founder of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s | |
Anthony Eden | 12 June 1897 | United Kingdom Windlestone Hall County Durham | 14 January 1977 | Politician | A UK Prime Minister who did not attend the Bilderberg, although his son did. |
Victor Cavendish Bentinck | 18 June 1897 | London Marylebone | 30 July 1990 | Diplomat Deep state operative Businessperson | Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, diplomat, 7 Bilderbergs |
Graves Erskine | 28 June 1897 | Columbia Louisiana | 21 May 1973 | Soldier Deep state functionary | US soldier picked in 1953 to head up the Office of Special Operations for the US Deep State. |
Harald Knudtzon | 6 July 1897 | Denmark Hummeltofte | 26 January 1980 | Financier | Single Bilderberg Danish financier |
Manlio Brosio | 10 July 1897 | Italy Turin | 14 March 1980 | Diplomat Politician Lawyer | The last Secretary General of NATO who was appointed before he attended the Bilderberg. |
Thomas Dugdale | 20 July 1897 | 26 March 1977 | Politician | British Conservative Party politician | |
Niels Werring Sr | 4 August 1897 | Norway Kristiansund Møre og Romsdal | 19 August 1990 | Shipping magnate | Father of 14 times Bilderberger Norwegian ship owner |
Jacques de Nervo | 31 August 1897 | France Val-d'Oise Margency | 27 June 1990 | Deep politician Industrialist | French patron and steel maker. The first meeting of the European members of the Bilderberg steering committee occurred in his Paris apartment in 1952. |
Tom Williamson | 2 September 1897 | 27 February 1983 | Politician Union organizer | UK trade unionist who attended the first and fourth Bilderbergs | |
Gerhard P. Th. Geyer | 5 September 1897 | 14 February 1972 | Businessperson | Esso director who attended the 1st and 4th Bilderbergs | |
Giovanni Montini | 26 September 1897 | Italy Brescia Concesio | 6 August 1978 | Clergy | |
Graham Towers | 29 September 1897 | Montreal Quebec | 4 December 1975 | Central banker | First Governor of the Bank of Canada. Unintentionally revealed how banking works. |
Charles Jocelyn Hambro | 3 October 1897 | 1963 | Spook Banker | spooky UK banker. SOE head | |
Berkeley Ormerod | 3 October 1897 | United Kingdom Middlesex Edmonton | 1 November 1983 | Diplomat Spook Soldier Athlete | |
Walker Cisler | 8 October 1897 | Ohio Marietta | 18 October 1994 | Engineer Businessperson | As well as the first Bilderberg, he attended the next four, and 3 more in the early 1960s, US businessman |
Morehead Patterson | 9 October 1897 | North Carolina Durham | Diplomat Inventor Businessperson | CEO of American Machine and Foundry, which he made one of the pillars of the US military-industrial complex, hiring former CIA director Walter Bedell Smith as vice-chairman. Attended the February 1957 Bilderberg | |
Nathan Twining | 11 October 1897 | Wisconsin Monroe | 29 March 1982 | Soldier | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960 |
Thomas Olsen | 15 October 1897 | Norway Hvitsten | 20 June 1969 | Deep politician Shipping magnate | |
Hans Speidel | 28 October 1897 | Germany Metzingen | 28 November 1984 | Soldier | Oversaw the smooth integration of the Bundeswehr into NATO |
Joseph Goebbels | 29 October 1897 | Germany Rheydt | 1 May 1945 | Politician Propagandist | Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Adolf Hitler |
Richard Russell | 2 November 1897 | United States Georgia Winder | 21 January 1971 | Lawyer | |
Allan Adair | 3 November 1897 | London United Kingdom | 4 August 1988 | Soldier | |
Jacobus Oldenbroek | 10 November 1897 | Netherlands Amsterdam | 7 March 1970 | Union organizer | Worked with Office of Strategic Services during WW2. Attended 2 Bilderbergs as General Secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. |
Aneurin Bevan | 15 November 1897 | Wales Monmouthshire Tredegar | 6 July 1960 | ||
Andreas Aulie | 17 November 1897 | 17 January 1990 | Lawyer Deep state operative | Norwegian Director of Public Prosecutions 1946-1967 | |
Alfred Stern | 29 November 1897 | June 1986 | Spook | ||
Alfred Roberts | 30 November 1897 | 18 November 1963 | Union organizer | British trade unionist who attended the 1958 Bilderberg as ILO/Vice chair | |
Drew Pearson | 13 December 1897 | US Illinois Evanston | 1 September 1969 | Journalist | |
Jay Lovestone | 15 December 1897 | Moǔchadz Grodno gubernia Russia/Tsarist Russia | 7 March 1990 | Spook Activist | US communist who ended up working for James Jesus Angleton |
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References
- ↑ Diarmuid Jeffreys, Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug (Bloomsbury, 2005) p70