1888 in Romania

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See also:	Other events of 1888 History of Romania Timeline of Romanian history Years in Romania

Events from the year 1888 in Romania. The year saw the first strike in the country, led by worker at Romanian Railways.

Incumbents

• King: Carol I. ^[1]
• Prime Minister:
  • Ion Brătianu (until 20 March). ^[2]
  • Theodor Rosetti (from 23 March). ^[2]

Events

Iulia Hasdeu

• 23 January – Elections are held for the Chamber of Deputies. They run until 25 January and again from 12 to 14 October. ^[3]
• 30 January – The first strike in Romania takes place when 300 workers at the Romanian Railways Workshop in Galați walk out in solidarity following the dismissal of a colleague, Ioan A. Ionescu. ^[4]
• 2 July – Ion Luca Caragiale becomes Minister of Education and head of the National Theatre Bucharest. His appointment is controversial and short-lived. ^{[5] [6]}
• 13 August – A strike starts in the Railway Central Workshops in Bucharest, which runs until 25 August. ^[4]
• Date unknown – Victor Babeș discovers the protozoan parasite Babesia . ^[7]

Births

• 25 January – Abraham Leib Zissu, political essayist and writer (died 1956). ^[8]
• 5 February – Constantin Titel Petrescu, politician and lawyer, the leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (died 1957). ^[9]
• 28 March – Alexandru Kirițescu, playwright and journalist (died 1961). ^[10]
• 1 April – Mircea Florian, philosopher (died 1960). ^[11]
• 17 May – Anton Durcovici, bishop of Iași in the Roman Catholic Church and martyr. He was beatified on 17 May 2014 (died 1951). ^[12]

Deaths

• 17 September – Iulia Hasdeu, poet, first Romanian woman to study at the University of Paris (born 1869). ^[13]

References

1. Treptow, Kurt W. (2001). A History of Romania. Iaşi: Center for Romanian Studies. p. 597. ISBN   978-9-73943-235-1.
2. Nicolescu, Nicolae C. (2003). Șefii de stat și de guvern ai României 1859–2003: mică enciclopedie[Heads of State and Government of Romania 1859–2003: A Small Encyclopedia] (in Romanian). Bucarest: Editura Meronia. p. 211. ISBN   978-9-73820-049-4.
3. Giurescu, Constantin C.; Matei, Horia C.; Popa, Marcel; Alexandrescu, Ion; Chiper, Ioan (1974). Chronological History of Romania. Bucharest: Enciclopedică Română. p. 470. OCLC   251025169.
4. Deac, Augustin; Munteanu, Nora (1962). Din istoria luptelor greviste ale proletariatului din Romînia[The history of the strike struggles of the proletariat in Romania]. Bucharest: Editura politică. p. 13. OCLC   81870840.
5. Tappe, Eric Ditmar (1974). Ion Luca Caragiale. New York: Twayne Publishers. p. 6. ISBN   978-0-80572-199-7.
6. Vianu, Tudor; Botez, Cornelia; Marcea, Pompiliu (1970). Scriitori Români[Romanian Writers] (in Romanian). Vol. 2. Bucharest: Editura Minerva. p. 181. OCLC   641537361.
7. Bandyopadhyay, P.K.; Das, N.R.; Chattopadhyay, Amit (2022). Biochemical, Immunological and Epidemiological Analysis of Parasitic Diseases. Singapore: Springer Nature. p. 66. ISBN   978-9-81164-384-2.
8. Crăciun, Camelia (2010). "Politics and Ideology in Jewish Romanian Intellectual Life. During the Interwar Period: A. L. Zissu – W. Filderman Debate". In Vainovski-Mihai, Irina (ed.). New Europe College Ștefan Odobleja Program Yearbook, 2010–2011. Bucharest: New Europe College. p. 88.
9. "Constantin Titel Petrescu, eliberat din închisoare de comuniști după ce și-a "recunoscut greșeala de a se fi opus unificării mișcării muncitorești"". Historia (in Romanian). Retrieved August 28, 2022.
10. "Vă mai amintiți de... Alexandru Kirițescu". Adevărul (in Romanian). 8 June 2010. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
11. Beldie, Constantin D. (2000). Memorii: caleidoscopul unei jumătăți de veac în București, 1900–1950[Memoirs: the kaleidoscope of half a century in Bucharest, 1900–1950] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Albatros. ISBN   9789732406588.
12. Jonathan Luxmoore (16 May 2014). "Romanian Catholic bishop martyred by communists beatified tomorrow". Catholic Herald. Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
13. Manolache, C. Scânteietoarea viață a Iuliei Hasdeu[The sparkling life of Iulia Hasdeu] (in Romanian). ISBN   9789739399517.