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July 31 – Mount Saint Elias, the second highest peak in the United States and Canada, is first ascended. August 21 – Oldsmobile is founded in Lansing, Michigan by Ransom E. Olds . August 31 – Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the Kinetoscope , a precursor of the movie projector .
April 21 – Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship. April 25 – Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain; the U.S. Congress announces that a state of war has existed since April 21 (later backdating this one more day to April 20).
1897 elections in the United States by state (30 C) 1897 in American sports by state (41 C) A. 1897 in Alabama (3 C) 1897 in Arizona Territory (1 C, 2 P)
1897 was a common year ... April 19 – The first Boston Marathon is held in the United States, with fifteen men competing, and won by John McDermott. [4]
1897 in the United States by state or territory (51 C) / 1897 disestablishments in the United States (17 C, 11 P) 1897 establishments in the United States (53 C, 9 P) A.
March 4, 1897 – McKinley becomes the 25th president; and Hobart becomes the 24th vice president; Wreckage of the USS Maine. 1897 – Boston subway completed; 1897 – Dingley tariff; 1898 – The City of Greater New York is created through the annexation of Brooklyn, Western Queens County, and Staten Island into New York City
The 55th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1897, to March 4, 1899, during the first two years of William McKinley's presidency.
William Seward served as Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869.. The history of U.S. foreign policy from 1861 to 1897 concerns the foreign policy of the United States during the presidential administrations of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, and Benjamin Harrison.