1888 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.
• Prime Minister:
• Ion Brătianu (until 20 March).
• Theodor Rosetti (from 23 March).

Events

• 23 January – Elections are held for the Chamber of Deputies. They run until 25 January and again from 12 to 14 October.
• 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.
• 2 July – Ion Luca Caragiale becomes Minister of Education and head of the National Theatre Bucharest. His appointment is controversial and short-lived.
• 13 August – A strike starts in the Railway Central Workshops in Bucharest, which runs until 25 August.
• Date unknown – Victor Babeș discovers the protozoan parasite Babesia.

Births

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

Deaths

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

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