Editing 1897 (section)

===July&ndash;September===
* [[July 11]] &ndash; [[S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897]] begins. The ill-fated expedition to fly over the Arctic results in the death of the entire team within months.
* [[July 17]] &ndash; The [[Klondike Gold Rush]] begins when the first successful prospectors arrive in [[Seattle]]
* [[July 25]] &ndash; Writer [[Jack London]] sails to join the [[Klondike Gold Rush]], where he will write his first successful stories.
* [[July 26]]&ndash;[[August 2]] &ndash; [[Siege of Malakand]]: British troops are besieged by [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] tribesmen in [[Malakand Agency|Malakand]], on the Northwest frontier of [[British Raj|British India]] (modern-day [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] in [[Pakistan]]).
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Mount Saint Elias]], the second highest peak in the United States and Canada, is first ascended.
* [[August 10]] &ndash; 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]]".<ref>Diarmuid Jeffreys, ''Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug'' (Bloomsbury, 2005) p70</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; The [[Oldsmobile|Olds Motor Vehicle Co.]] is founded in [[Lansing, Michigan]], by [[Ransom E. Olds]].
* [[August 29]] &ndash; The [[First Zionist Congress]] convenes in [[Basel]], Switzerland.
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Thomas Edison]] is granted a patent for the [[Kinetoscope]], a precursor of the [[movie projector]].
[[File:Flag of Ethiopia (1897-1936; 1941-1974).svg|thumb|150px|right| [[October 6]], [[Ethiopia]]n flag.]]
* [[September 1]] &ndash; The [[Tremont Street subway]] is opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
* [[September 10]] &ndash; [[Lattimer massacre]]: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed immigrant miners in [[Pennsylvania]].
* [[September 11]] &ndash; After months of searching, generals of [[Menelik II of Ethiopia]] capture [[Gaki Sherocho]], the last king of [[Kingdom of Kaffa|Kaffa]], bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Battle of Saragarhi]]: Twenty-one [[Sikh]]s of the [[36th Sikhs]] regiment of the [[British Indian Army]] defend an army post to the death, against 10,000 [[Afghan (ethnonym)|Afghan]] and [[Orakzai]] tribesmen, in the [[Tirah Campaign]] on the Northwest frontier of the [[British Raj]] (modern-day [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] in [[Pakistan]]).
* [[September 20]] &ndash; Greece and Turkey sign a peace treaty to end the [[Greco-Turkish War (1897)|Greco-Turkish War]].
[[Image:Uss baltimore c-3.jpg|thumb|150px|right| October: {{USS|Baltimore|C-3|6}} in Hawaii]]
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Francis P. Church]] responds (anonymously) to a letter to the editor of [[The Sun (New York City)|''The Sun'' (New York City)]] that is known as the famous "[[Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus]]" letter.