Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
June 22, 1897
Sixty years on the throne were marked by a procession through London attended by troops from every British colony - Sikh cavalry, Australian mounted infantry, Canadian Mounties, Jamaican West Indians, Hausa from Nigeria. Kipling wrote "Recessional" to temper the triumphalism. It was the imperial century's high-water moment, visible even to itself.
In context
Also in 1897 (5 other events on record)
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Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Politics
- Before: 1896: Herzl's Jewish State
- After: January 13, 1898: J'accuse
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.