The parliamentary year is dominated by an obstructionist campaign against the coercive Public Safety Bill introduced Prime Minister
Luigi Pelloux the
year before.[1]
March 29 – Uproar in the
Italian Chamber of Deputies on procedural machinations by the Chamber's president to pass the controversial Public Security Bill. The Constitutional Opposition of
Giuseppe Zanardelli joins the Extreme Left (Socialists, Republicans and Radicals).[1][3] The next day the Extreme Left disrupts the session and the Chamber is adjourned.[4]
April
April 3 – When the right wing majority again tries to impose new procedures to curb debates on the new controversial Public Security Bill, 160 opposition deputies led by
Giuseppe Zanardelli walk out the Chamber of Deputies, resulting in parliamentary deadlock. Parliament is adjourned until May 15.[5][6]
April 22 – First issue of
L'Ora (The Hour), a Sicilian daily newspaper in
Palermo, founded by the entrepreneurial
Florio family.
May
May 15 – The Italian Chamber of Deputies reassemble after an interval of several weeks since the adjournment that was occasioned by the obstruction of the members of the Extreme Left. Amidst continuous uproar the session is adjourned.[7] Due to the continuous obstruction of his new coercive Public Safety Bill by the
Socialist Party of Italy (PSI), supported by the Left and Extreme Left, Prime Minister
Luigi Pelloux dissolves the
Chamber of Deputies.
June 10 – Second round of the
Italian general election. The Pelloux government fails to win a majority of seats.[5] The "ministerial" left-wing bloc of the
Historical Left led by
Giovanni Giolitti remains the largest in Parliament, winning 296 of the 508 seats. The model of strong government advocated by the conservative
Sidney Sonnino is discredited. More moderate politicians like Zanardelli and Giolitti resort back to more "conciliatory" politics.[1]
November 8 – Prime Minister
Giuseppe Saracco signs the decree establishing the
Saredo Inquiry, officially known as the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Naples (Reale Commissione d’Inchiesta per Napoli), presided by senator
Giuseppe Saredo, tasked with investigating corruption and bad governance of the city of
Naples and to investigate how huge amounts of money that had been poured into Naples after the
cholera epidemic of 1884 had vanished without noticeable benefit for the city's poor.[12]
December
December 5 –
Germany,
Austria-Hungary and
Italy sign a treaty providing that their navies would work together in the event of an attack on either nation by
France or
Russia.
Births
January 1 –
Paola Borboni, Italian film actress (d. 1995)