Rerum Novarum
May 15, 1891
Pope Leo XIII issued an encyclical on the condition of the working class, defending the right of labor to organize and criticizing both unregulated capitalism and socialism. It was the Catholic Church's first serious engagement with industrial modernity and became the founding document of Catholic social teaching, still cited a century later.
In context
Also in 1891 (3 other events on record)
- Trans-Siberian Railway Begun · Central Asia · Technology
- Russian Famine · Europe · Disaster
- Wireless Rivalries · Europe · Science
Before and after in Europe
- Before: 1890: Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
- After: 1893: Franco-Russian Alliance
Before and after in Religion
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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