- Ladies' Cycling Club founded.
- Fremantle Markets erected in South Terrace.
- First wood block road built in the State put down in High Street by E. H. Gliddon, the town engineer.
- May 4: SS Sultan the first official steamer to open the new harbour.
Freotopia
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 6 August, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/timeline/1897.html (it was last updated on 19 December, 2018), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.