Editing 1897

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== Events ==
* January 4 - A British expedition under General James Phillips is ambushed and killed in Benin on the orders of Oba (King) [[Ovonramwen]]. Only two Britons survive the so-called "Benin Massacre". 
* February 9 to 18 - The [[Benin Expedition]], a punitive expedition by a British force of 1,200 men under Sir [[Harry Rawson]], takes place in revenge for the killings of James Phillips' party. This results in the brutal massacre of much of the indigenous Beninese population, the [[Arson|burning]] of Benin City, and the eventual absorption of Benin into British Nigeria.
* March 3 - [[John Brown Gordon]] resigns from the United States Senate for the second time.
* March 4 - [[William McKinley]] takes office as the 25th President of the United States.
* Unknown - End of the [[Queensland Aboriginal Genocide]].

== Births ==

=== Villain births ===
*January 11 - [[James A. Colescott]]
* January 22 - [[Arthur Greiser]]
* January 23 - [[Subhas Chandra Bose]]
* February 5 - [[Miyuki Ishikawa]]
* April 24 - [[Michael Lippert]]
* May 12 - [[Earle Nelson]]
* July 11 - [[Bull Connor]]
* July 14 - [[Plaek Phibunsongkhram]]
* August 31 - [[Otto Dietrich]]
* September 15 - [[Kurt Daluege]]
* September 20 - [[Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco]]
* October 7 - [[Elijah Muhammed]]
* October 29 - [[Joseph Goebbels]]
* November 21 - [[Vito Genovese]]
* November 24 - [[Charles "Lucky" Luciano]]
* November 30 - [[Feliksas Baltusis-Zemaitis]]

== Deaths ==

=== Villain deaths ===

* February 12 - [[Jesús Jiménez zamora]]

===Victim Deaths===
* January 4 - James Phillips, Copland Crawford, Kenneth Campbell, 247 other victims of the Benin Massacre