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1888:

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years:	1885 1886 1887 - 1888 - 1889 1890 1891

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Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1888
2 Births
3 Deaths
- 3.1 January - June
- 3.2 July - December

In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of Three Emperors. Currently, it is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits (13). This record will not be equalled until 2388 (MMCCCLXXXVIII), or surpassed until 2888 (MMDCCCLXXXVIII).

[edit] Events of 1888

[edit] January - March

January 3 - The 91-centimeter telescope is first used at Lick Observatory.
January 12 - Blizzards (see: Schoolhouse Blizzard) hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of whom are children on their way home from school.
January 13 - In Washington, DC, the National Geographic Society is founded.
February 27 - In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge, who proposes a scheme for sound film.
March 8 - The Agriculture College of Utah, (later Utah State University) is founded in Logan, Utah.
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 20 - The very first Romani language operetta premieres in Moscow, Russia.
March 22 - The Football League is formed.
March 27 - Dorus Rijkers saves the 30-man crew of the Renown, risking his own life.

March 11: Great Blizzard of 1888.

[edit] April - June

April 11 - The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
May 1 - The United States Congress establishes the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.
May 13 - Brazil abolishes the last remnants of slavery.
May 28 - In Scotland, the Celtic F.C. plays its first official match winning 5-2 against Rangers F.C..
June - Annie Besant organizes the London matchgirls strike of 1888.
June 3
- The Kingdom of Sedang is formed in modern-day Vietnam.
- Casey at the Bat is published.
June 15 - Wilhelm II is crowned German Emperor.
June 19 - In Chicago, the Republican Convention opens at the Auditorium Building. Benjamin Harrison & Levi Morton win the nominations for President and VicePresident, respectively.
June 29 - Handel's Israel in Egypt is recorded onto wax cylinder at The Crystal Palace, it being the earliest known recording of classical music.

[edit] July - September

August 31: Victim found from Jack the Ripper?

July 25 - Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah, purportedly the only person using touch typing at the time, wins a decisive victory over Louis Traub in a typing contest held in Cincinnati, Ohio. This date can be called the birthday of the touch typing method that is widely used now.
July 27 - The British Parliament passes an act that permits bicycles on the road, on condition that they are equipped with a bell that should be rung while on the carriageway. The law is eventually abolished in 1930.
August 5 - Berta Benz arrives in Pforzheim, having driven 40 miles from Mannheim in a car manufactured by her husband Karl Benz, thus completing the first "long-distance" drive in the history of the automobile.
August 7 - The body of Martha Tabram is found, a possible murder victim of Jack the Ripper.
August 20 - There is a mutiny at Dufile, India, and the Emin Pasha is imprisoned.
August 31 - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is considered 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 6 - Charles Turner becomes the first cricket bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
September 8
- In London, the dead body of Annie Chapman is found. She is considered to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper.
- In England, the first 6 Football League matches are played.
September 30 - In London, the bodies of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes are found. They are generally considered Jack the Ripper's third and fourth victims, respectively.

October 9: Washington Monument opens.

[edit] October - December

October 1 - Sofia University officially opens, becoming the first university in liberated Bulgaria.
October 9 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
October 14 - Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK (followed by his movie Leeds Bridge).
October 25 - St. Cuthbert's Society, University of Durham is founded after a general meeting, chaired by the Reverend Hastings Rashdall.
November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1888: United States Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the popular vote, but loses the Electoral College vote to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison, therefore losing the election.
November 9 - In London, England, the dead body of Mary Jane Kelly is found. She is considered to be the fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims. A number of similar murders in England follow, but the police attribute them to copy-cat killers.
November 27 - Delta Delta Delta was founded at Boston University
December 23 - During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear.

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John Robert Gregg first publishes Gregg Shorthand.
Edward King, Anglican bishop of Lincoln, is prosecuted for using ritualistic practices begins.
Sarawak and Borneo become British protectorates.
Susan B. Anthony organizes a Congress for Women's Rights in Washington, DC.
A national library in Athens, Greece is established.
The first railway in China goes into operation.
The Kodak camera increases the popularity of photography as a hobby.
The dolphin Pelorus Jack is first sighted in Cook Strait, New Zealand.
The Camborne School of Mines is founded in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
The Finnish epic Kalevala is published for the first time in the English Language by John Martin Crawford.
The Baldwin School is founded in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
A storm with hail the size of grapefruits falls somewhere in Asia.
Chin Gee Hee starts the Quong Tuck Company.
U.S. President Grover Cleveland declares the Chinese "impossible of assimilation with our people and dangerous to our peace and welfare".

[edit] Births

**1888 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1888 MDCCCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2641
Armenian calendar	1337 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԷ
Bahá'í calendar	44 – 45
Berber calendar	2838
Buddhist calendar	2432
Burmese calendar	1250
Byzantine calendar	7396 – 7397
Chinese calendar	丁亥年十一月十八日 (4524/4584-11-18) — to — 戊子年十一月廿九日 (4525/4585-11-29)
Coptic calendar	1604 – 1605
Ethiopian calendar	1880 – 1881
Hebrew calendar	5648 – 5649
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1943 – 1944
- Shaka Samvat	1810 – 1811
- Kali Yuga	4989 – 4990
Holocene calendar	11888
Iranian calendar	1266 – 1267
Islamic calendar	1305 – 1306
Japanese calendar	Meiji 21 (明治21年)
Korean calendar	4221
Thai solar calendar	2431
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