1897 in Venezuela

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Events in the year 1897 in Venezuela.

Incumbents

President: Ignacio Andrade{{cite book|last1=McBeth|first1=Brian Stuart|title=Gunboats, Corruption, and Claims: Foreign Intervention in Venezuela, 1899-1908|date=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313313561|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OFH3ejGRNtMC&pg=PA14|language=en}}

Events

28 January – Early film screenings are held at the Baralt Theatre in Maracaibo, the premiere of the first Venezuelan films
2 February – The Treaty of Washington between Venezuela and the United Kingdom is signed, towards the end of the Venezuelan crisis of 1895.
28 July – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maracaibo is established.

Births

4 August – José Nucete Sardi
15 September – Mario Briceño Iragorry

Deaths

References

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