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.

Incumbents

25 January – Abraham Leib Zissu, political essayist and writer (died 1956).^[3]
5 February – Constantin Titel Petrescu, politician and lawyer, the leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (died 1957).^[4]
28 March – Alexandru Kirițescu, playwright and journalist (died 1961).^[5]
17 May – Anton Durcovici, bishop of Iași in the Roman Catholic Church and martyr. He died at Sighet Prison and was beatified on 17 May 2014 (died 1951).^[6]

^ Treptow, Kurt W. (2001). A History of Romania. Iaşi: Center for Romanian Studies. p. 597. ISBN 978-9-73943-235-1.
^ Giurescu, Constantin C.; Matei, Horia C.; Popa, Marcel; Alexandrescu, Ion; Chiper, Ioan (1974). Chronological History of Romania. Bucharest: Enciclopedică Română. p. 462. OCLC 251025169.
^ 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.
^ "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.
^ "Vă mai amintiți de... Alexandru Kirițescu". Adevărul (in Romanian). 8 June 2010. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
^ 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.