1888 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1888?
- January 3, 1888 – The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
- January 27, 1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
- March 2, 1888 – The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
- March 11, 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
- March 20, 1888 – The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
- May 13, 1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea (“Golden Law”), Brazil abolishes slavery.
- June 3, 1888 – The poem “Casey at the Bat”, by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
- June 15, 1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire.
- July 15, 1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
- August 5, 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
- August 14, 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord”, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison’s phonograph in London.
- September 4, 1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
- September 8, 1888 – In England the first six Football League matches are played.
- September 22, 1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
- September 30, 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
- October 9, 1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
- October 15, 1888 – The “From Hell” letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
- October 17, 1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
- December 9, 1888 – Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
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