1888

1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). In Germany, 1888 is known as the 1888 Year of Three Emperors.

Years:
1885 1886 1887 - 1888 - 1889 1890 1891
Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s
Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
1888 in art
1888 in literature
1888 in music
1888 in science
1888 in sports
List of state leaders in 1888
List of religious leaders in 1888

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births

2.1 January-April
2.2 May-December
2.3 unknown dates

3 Deaths

Events

January 3 - 91cm telescope first used at Lick Observatory
January 12 – Blizzards in Dakota and Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska and Texas - 235 dead, many of which were children on their way home from school
January 24 - Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon.
January 27 - In Washington, DC the National Geographic Society is founded.
March 11 - The "Great Blizzard of '88" begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
March 22 - The Football League is formed
April 11 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
May 13 - Brazil abolishes slavery.
June 19 - In Chicago Republican Convention opens at Auditorium Building. General Benjamin Harrison & Levi Morton will win the nominations.
August 31 - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims.
September 4 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
September 8 - In London, the body of Annie Chapman is found. She is considered the second victim of Jack The Ripper.
September 8 - In England the first 6 Football League matches ever were played.
September 30 - In London, the bodies of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes are found. They are considered Jack the Ripper's third and fourth victim respectively.
October 9 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1888: Democrat incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the overall popular vote, but is voted out of office because he loses in the Electoral College to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.
November 9 - In London the body of Mary Jane Kelly is found. She is considered the fifth and last of Jack the Ripper's victims. A number of similar murders actually follow but police attribute them to copycat killers.

Gramophone patented by Emile Berliner
Annie Besant organizes a match girl strike
Slavery abolished in Brazil
Sarawak and Borneo become British protectorates
Axe murderer William Kembler is the first to be executed in an electric chair
Susan B. Anthony organizes a congress for women’s rights in Washington DC
National library in Athens, Greece
First railways in China
Kodak camera increases the popularity of photography as a hobby

Births

Deaths

January 29 - Edward Lear, British artist and writer
February 3 - Henry Maine, British jurist
March 6 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist
March 9 - German Emperor Wilhelm I
April 15 - Father Damien, Belgian priest
June 15 - German Emperor Friedrich III
October 16 - John Wentworth, mayor of Chicago, United States
Anton de Bary, German biologist
Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Charles Cros, French poet
Philip Henry Gosse, British scientist

Years: 1885 1886 1887 - 1888 - 1889 1890 1891
Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1888 in art 1888 in literature 1888 in music 1888 in science 1888 in sports List of state leaders in 1888 List of religious leaders in 1888