Events from 1888

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1888

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1888 ID: 1080
Year of Three Emperors: Wilhelm I dies, Frederick III rules 99 days, Wilhelm II becomes Kaiser
ID: 1080
1888 ID: 1081
Edward Bellamy's Looking Backwards - vision of total state control, second only to Marx's Das Kapital
ID: 1081
1888 ID: 1082
Sophus Lie develops theory of continuous groups (Lie groups) - essential for modern physics
ID: 1082
1888 ID: 1083
Commercial aluminum production begins using Hall-Heroult process
ID: 1083
1888 ID: 1084
St. Frances Cabrini arrives in America - Pope told her Not East but West - founds 67 institutions
ID: 1084
1888 ID: 2354
German Partnership Code (HGB) - distinguishes OHG (general), KG (limited), and stille Gesellschaft (silent) partnerships
ID: 2354
1888 ID: 4960
St. Thérèse enters Carmel at Lisieux at age 15 - begins her 'little way' of spiritual childhood
ID: 4960
Lisieux
1888 ID: 1079
June 20, 1888
Pope Leo XIII issues Libertas on nature of human liberty - true liberty is immunity from irrational constraint
ID: 1079

Books & Texts from 1888

📖 henry-james - the-lesson-of-the-master
📖 robert-louis-stevenson - the-black-arrow-a-tale-of-the-two-roses
📖 william-morris - a-dream-of-john-ball-and-a-kings-lesson
📖 amelia-e-barr - remember-the-alamo
📖 oscar-wilde - the-happy-prince-and-other-tales
📖 horatio-alger-jr - the-errand-boy-or-how-phil-brent-won-success
📖 henry-james - the-aspern-papers
📖 frances-hodgson-burnett - sara-crewe-or-what-happened-at-miss-minchins-boarding-school
📖 edward-bellamy - locking-backward-2000-to-1887