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 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.
- 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 29, 1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel’s Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
- August 21, 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
- 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 6, 1888 – Charles Turner becomes the first 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 22, 1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
- October 9, 1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
- 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.
- 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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