The following lists events that happened during
1897
Events
January–March
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* January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...
in
Afghanistan.
The ''amir''s realm is quiet during the year. Suspicions that
Abdur Rahman Khan is acting unfaithfully towards the British are dispelled by his loyal attitude in refusing to aid the rebel tribesmen engaged in the frontier war, or even to sympathize with them. Across the Indian border the
First Mohmand Campaign
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in the
North-West Frontier Province starts in August 1897.
Incumbents
*
Monarch –
Abdur Rahman Khan
Events
January 1897
The
Kamdesh Kafirs are being rapidly disarmed. The headmen of the villages in the Bashgal Valley send a deputation to the ''
sipah salar
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'' (commander-in-chief) requesting him to keep back the force that is to be sent to collect arms in every village, promising themselves to collect the
knives,
guns, and other
weapons, and to hand them over to the Afghans.
May 1897
The ''amir'' withdraws the officials and
irregular soldiers
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who occupied for a year the Mittai Valley in contravention of the
Durand Line Agreement
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.
September 6 and 7, 1897
Nearly 150
shops in the
Kabul city
bazaar
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are destroyed by
fire, and several lives are lost.
See also
*
History of Afghanistan
{{Asia topic, 1897 in
Years of the 19th century in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
1890s in Afghanistan