1897

Centuries:	18th century 19th century 20th century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years:	1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Declarations Establishments - Publications
Media:	1897 (Events)

1897 was a common year of the Gregorian calendar and a common year of the Julian calendar, the 1897th year of the Common Era (CE), the 97th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1897, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. 1897 corresponds to the years 53–54 of the Bahá'í Era (BE) according to the Badi calendar.

Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, born 1897.

Events

• Mírzá Áqá Ján breaks the Covenant.
• February: Six Bahá'ís are arrested in Mamaqán, Ádharbáyján. Three are bastinadoed and three are imprisoned in Tabríz.
• May 21: Lua Getsinger becomes a Bahá'í in Chicago.

Births

• February 24: Jalal Khazeh, Hand of the Cause.
• March 1: Shoghi Effendi, the great-grandson of Bahá’u’lláh, is born in the House of ‘Abdu’lláh Páshá.
• June 16: Adelbert Mühlschlegel, Hand of the Cause of God and prominent German Bahá’í

Deaths

• Shaykh Muhammad-Riday-i-Yazdi, Hand of the Cause, dies while imprisoned in Tehran.
• Hájí Mírzá Muhammad-`Alí, the first Bahá'í to visit China.

References

• https://bahai-library.com/chronology/189-