360What happened in 1887?
2 moments from 1887 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- On this day · 26 July 1887
The first book of Esperanto is published
On 26 July 1887, the eye doctor L. L. Zamenhof published the first book describing Esperanto in Warsaw, a language he designed to be easy to learn and to help people of different nations understand each other. It is still spoken by an estimated hundreds of thousands of people.
- January 1887 · from The Eiffel Tower is completed in Paris
Construction begins