1886 in Italy

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Events from the year 1886 in Italy

Kingdom of Italy

Monarch – Umberto I (1878–1900)
Prime Minister – Agostino Depretis (1881–1887)

The total population of Italy in 1886 (within the current borders) was 30.776 million.^[1] Life expectancy in 1886 was 35.1 years.^[2]

Events

Italy continues to suffer from the cholera outbreak in 1884. According to official estimates, cholera killed 50,000 Italians between 1884 and 1887.^[3] The course of the disease led to a slide into a state of near anarchy in Sicily in 1885 and 1886 as fear of infection engulfed the island and the people of towns and villages desperately set up makeshift sanitary cordons in defiance of the authorities.^[4]

February

11 February — The Berti Law, named after Domenico Berti, Minister of Education in the Depretis V government (or officially: Law no. 3657), set the minimum age for admission to work in quarries, mines, and factories, at nine years, the minimum age for night work at twelve years and indicated a maximum of eight hours' work for them. However, the provisions in the law were not actually enforced until the Carcano Law was issued in 1902, thanks to which – for the first time – action was taken to support the protection of underage workers.^[5]

May

18 May — Eruption on the southern flank of the Mount Etna volcano on Sicily, following a powerful summit explosion. The eruption builds a row of pyroclastic cones, the largest of which is named Monte Gemmellaro (in honour to the Gemmellaro family of volcanologists from Catania who studied Etna in the 19th century). A lava stream comes very close to Nicolosi. Eruptions continue to 7 June 1886.

23 May — First round of the 1886 Italian general election with a second round of voting on 30 May.^[6] The "ministerial" Historical Left led by Prime Minister Depretis emerged as the largest in Parliament, winning 292 of the 508 seats.^[7]

June

7 June — Palermo Centrale railway station, the main railway station of Palermo, capital of Sicily, is opened.

Births

January 7 – Amedeo Maiuri, archaeologist (d. 1963)
10 February — Pia Maria Nalli, mathematician, also remembered for her struggles against discrimination against women in the Italian university hiring system (d. 1964)
2 March — Vittorio Pozzo, football player, manager and journalist, who led the Italy national team to victory in the 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cup (d. 1968)
11 March — Luigi Salvatorelli, historian and publicist (d. 1974)
6 May — Giuseppe Pietri, composer, known primarily for his work in operetta (d. 1946)
8 May — Edvige Maria Valcarenghi, later known as Bice Waleran or Valerian, film actress of the silent era (d. 1969)
4 June — Eugenio Bava, film cinematographer (d. 1966)
July 3 — Giovanni Battista Caproni, aeronautical, civil, and electrical engineer, aircraft designer, and industrialist (d. 1957)
28 July — Domenico Marotta, chemist and scientist, serving as the director of the National Institute of Health (ISS) from 1935 to 1961 (d. 1974)

Deaths

16 January — Amilcare Ponchielli, opera composer (b. 1834)
25 January — Michelangelo Fumagalli, painter (b. 1812)
16 February — Cesare Uva, landscape painter (b. 1824)
10 April — Agostino Bertani, revolutionary and physician during Italian unification (b. 1812)
11 November — Luigi Bisi, architect and painter (b. 1814)
10 December — Marco Minghetti, economist and statesman (b. 1818)

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References

↑ "L'Italia in 150 anni. Sommario di statistiche storiche 1861–2010" (PDF). Istat . Retrieved 17 May 2021.
↑ "Life expectancy". Our World in Data. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
↑ Snowden, Naples in the time of cholera, 1884-1911, p. 85
↑ Snowden, Naples in the time of cholera, 1884-1911, p. 169
↑ Fiorenza, Elia (2023). "A Virtuous Form of Work Organisation: The Regulation of Pazzano of 1845" (PDF). International Journal of Entrepreneurship, 27(S4),1-12.
↑ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook, p. 1047 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1082

Sources

Snowden, Frank M. (1995). Naples in the time of cholera, 1884-1911. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-585-13106-1.

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[1] "L'Italia in 150 anni. Sommario di statistiche storiche 1861–2010" (PDF). Istat . Retrieved 17 May 2021.

[2] "Life expectancy". Our World in Data. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

[snowden85-3] Snowden, Naples in the time of cholera, 1884-1911, p. 85

[snowden169-4] Snowden, Naples in the time of cholera, 1884-1911, p. 169

[5] Fiorenza, Elia (2023). "A Virtuous Form of Work Organisation: The Regulation of Pazzano of 1845" (PDF). International Journal of Entrepreneurship, 27(S4),1-12.

[NS-6] Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook, p. 1047 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

[7] Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1082

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