New York Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company established. Great Britain Aubrey Beardsley design published in the first issue of the magazine The Studio. Paris Japanese prints exhibition organized by Siegfried Bing. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec paints Jane Avril at the Jardin de Paris. Brussels Victor Horta designs the Tassel House.
Women win the right to vote in New Zealand, the first country to embrace female suffrage.
In Belgium universal male suffrage is adopted. Louis Comfort Tiffany exhibits at Bing's opening of L'Art Nouveau. Glasgow Charles Rennie Mackintosh and George Walton design Buchanan Street tearooms. Henry van de Velde and Victor Horta show designs. 1897 Munich United Workshops for Art in Handicraft founded.