History

By Sergio Ernesto Negri Global Context Toward the end of the year, the Lumière brothers (Auguste: 1862-1954; Louis: 1864-1948) held the first commercial

Chess can be read alongside Egyptian ideas of order, judgement and self-discipline. Beginning with senet and its symbolic links to

By Sergio Ernesto Negri Global Context The Dreyfus Affair erupts in France, where, in a separate incident, an anarchist assassinates the president

By Sergio Ernesto Negri Global Context The Chicago World’s Fair is held. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival in the

By Sergio Ernesto Negri In the 19th century As a review of the presence of chess in the century in

By Sergio Ernesto Negri Global Context Several scientific advances: the Frenchman Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) in thermodynamics; the Dutchman Hendrik Lorentz (1853-1928), who would receive

By Sergio Ernesto Negri Global Context Brazilian Emperor Pedro II (1825-1891) dies. Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) publishes Rerum Novarum, considered the Catholic Church’s first social

By Sergio Ernesto Negri Global Context German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) was forced to resign by the young Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941). In

By Sergio Ernesto Negri Global context France occupies Ivory Coast. Menelik II (1844-1913) is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. The Eiffel Tower, the Universal Exposition, and

By Sergio Ernesto Negri Global context Following the death of Wilhelm I (1797-1888), Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, Frederick III (1831-1888) ascends