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| 1892, Aug |
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| The Congress of Italian Working Men met in Genoa. Anarchists and Socialists divided at the congress, and the Socialists founded the Socialist Workingmen's Party (1893). | 1 |
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| 1892–93 |
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| Giovanni Giolitti's first ministry. Giolitti fell as a result of a banking crisis. He made the managing director of the Banca Romana, Signor Tanlongo, a senator. A parliamentary investigation revealed Tanlongo had issued large sums of duplicate bank notes, and that the two preceding cabinets were aware of these irregularities. | 2 |
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| 1893, Aug. 10 |
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| Bank of Italy established to replace the insolvent Banca Romana. The law forbade state banks to make loans in real estate and limited their powers of discount. | 3 |
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| Dec.–1896, March |
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| The second Crispi ministry addressed the banking crisis and growing unrest among the peasants of Sicily and anarchists. | 4 |
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