1888 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1888?
- 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 15, 1888 – Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
- March 22, 1888 – In England, The Football League, the world’s oldest professional Association Football league, is founded.
- April 3, 1888 – The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
- April 6, 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
- April 11, 1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
- May 13, 1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea (“Golden Law”), Brazil abolishes slavery.
- June 15, 1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire.
- 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.
- August 31, 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper’s confirmed victims.
- 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 14, 1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
- October 15, 1888 – The “From Hell” letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
- December 9, 1888 – Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
- December 18, 1888 – Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.
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