'''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.
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1885 1886 1887 - 1888 - 1889 1890 1891 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Decades:'''
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18th_century - '''19th_century''' - 20th_century
{{C19YearInTopic}} |} ==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_26 - Australia celebrates the first Centennary of European settlement. * 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. * May_28 - Celtic played their first official match against Rangers and won 5-2 * June_3 - "Kingdom_of_Sedang" formed in modern-day Vietnam * June_19 - In Chicago,_Illinois, Republican Convention opens at Auditorium Building. General Benjamin_Harrison & Levi_Morton will win the nominations. * July_27 - British_parliament passes an act that permits Bicycles on road on condition that they are equipped with a bell that should be rung while on the carriageway. The law is abolished 1930 * August_7 - The body of Martha_Tabram was found, a possible murder victim of Jack_the_Ripper * 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_6 - 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_8 - In London, the body of Annie_Chapman is found. She is generally 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 generally 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 typically 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 * John_Robert_Gregg first published Gregg_Shorthand * Slavery abolished in Brazil * Sarawak and Borneo become British Protectorates * 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. * The first recorded Film, Roundhay_Garden_Scene, is made in Roundhay in Leeds, West_Yorkshire, England. The film is two seconds (4 frames) in length. * First sightings of the dolphin Pelorus_Jack in Cook_Strait, New_Zealand ==Births== ===January-March=== * January_1 - Victor_Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (d. 1947) * January_8 - Matt Moore, Irish-born actor (d. 1960) * January_24 - Vicki_Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960) ** Ernst_Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958) * February_2 - Frederick_Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969) * February_17 - Otto_Stern, German physicist, Nobel_Prize laureate (d. 1969) * February_19 - José_Eustasio_Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928) * February_20 - Georges_Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948) * February_25 - John_Foster_Dulles, United_States_Secretary_of_State (d. 1959) * February_27 - Lotte_Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976) * March_1 - Ewart_Astill, English cricketer (Leicestershire) (d. 1948) * March_4 - Knute_Rockne, American football player and coach (d. 1931) * March_10 - Barry_Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d. 1966) * March_12 - Vaslav_Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer (d. 1950) * March_17 - Frank_Buck, big game hunter (d. 1950) * March_26 - Elsa_Brändström, Russian nurse (d. 1948) ===April-June=== * April_4 - Tris_Speaker, Baseball_Hall_of_Famer (d. 1958) * April_6 - Hans Richter, German filmmaker (d. 1976) * April_18 - Duffy_Lewis, Major_League_Baseball player (d. 1979) * April_26 - Anita_Loos, American writer (d. 1981) * April_27 - Florence_La_Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917) * May_10 - Karl_Barth, Protestant theologian (d. 1968) ** Max_Steiner, Austrian-American composer (d. 1971) * May_11 - Irving_Berlin, American composer (d. 1989) * May_17 - Tich_Freeman, English cricketer (d. 1965) * May_23 - Zack_Wheat, Baseball_Hall_of_Famer (d. 1972) * May_25 - Miles_Malleson, English actor (d. 1969) * May_27 - Louis_Durey, French composer (d. 1979) * June_3 - Tom Brown, American jazz musician (d. 1958) * June_6 - Pete_Wendling, American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist (d. 1974) * June_9 - Ida_Rentoul_Outhwaite, Australian illustrator (d. 1960) * June_13 - Fernando_Pessoa, Portuguese writer (d. 1935) * June_24 - Gerrit_Rietveld, Dutch architect (d. 1964) ===July-October=== *July_5 - Herbert_Spencer_Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1963) *July_10 - Giorgio_Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978) *July_16 - Frits_Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966) *July_17 - Shmuel_Yosef_Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970) *July_22 - Selman_Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (d. 1973) *July_23 - Raymond_Chandler, American novelist (d. 1959) *August_14 - John_Logie_Baird, Scottish inventor (d. 1946) *August_16 - Armand_J._Piron, American jazz musician (d. 1943) *September_5 - Sarvepalli_Radhakrishnan, President_of_India (d. 1975) *September_6 - Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr., American politician (d. 1969) *September_12 - Maurice_Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972) *September_16 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) *September_26 - J._Frank_Dobie, American folklorist and journalist (d. 1964) *September_26 - T._S._Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965) *October_6 - Roland_Garros, French pilot (d. 1918) *October_7 - Henry_A._Wallace, Vice_President_of_the_United_States (d. 1965) *October_8 - Ernst_Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (d. 1964) *October_9 - Nikolai_Ivanovich_Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938) *October_16 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953) *October_16 - Paul_Popenoe, American eugenicist (d. 1979) ===November-December=== * November_7 - Chandrasekhara_Venkata_Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel_Prize laureate (d. 1980) * November_15 - Harald_Sverdrup, Norwegian scientist (d. 1957) * November_23 - Harpo_Marx, American comedian (d. 1964) * November_26 - Francisco_Canaro, Uruguayan-born violinist and composer (d. 1964) * November_30 - Ralph_Hartley, American electronics researcher and inventor (d. 1970) * December_4 - King Alexander_of_Yugoslavia (d. 1934) * December_19 - Fritz_Reiner, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963) * December_28 - F.W._Murnau, German film director (d. 1931) ==Deaths== * January_19 - Anton_de_Bary, German biologist (b. 1831) * January_29 - Edward_Lear, British artist and writer (b. 1812) * February_3 - Henry_Maine, British jurist (b. 1822) * March_6 - Louisa_May_Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832) * March_9 - German Emperor Wilhelm I (b. 1797) * March_12 - Henry_Bergh, founder of the American_Society_for_the_Prevention_of_Cruelty_to_Animals (b. 1811) * April_15 - Matthew_Arnold, English poet (b. 1822) * April_15 - Father_Damien, Belgian priest (b. 1811) * June_15 - German Emperor Friedrich III (b. 1840) * July_20 - Paul_Langerhans, German pathologist and biologist (b. 1847) * August_9 - Charles_Cros, French poet (b. 1831) * August_23 - Philip_Henry_Gosse, British scientist (b. 1810) * August_24 - Rudolf_Clausius, German physicist, contributions to Thermodynamics (b. 1822) * October_16 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815) * December_31 - Samson_Raphael_Hirsch, German rabbi (b. 1808) ==Marriages== * January_1 - Elias_Disney & Flora_Disney * April_11 - Henry_Ford & Clara_Jane_Bryant * May_2 - Josephus_Daniels & Addie_Worth_Bagley * September_5 - Billy_Sunday & HElen_Amelia_Thompson * September_11 - Robert_Homans & Agnes_Mary_Josephine_Mellon * November_29 - Axel_Blixen-Finecke & Bertha_Henriette_Marie_Castenschiold * December_20 - Charles_Urban & Julia_Avery Category:1888 Af:1888 Ar:1888 Ast:1888 Bg:1888 Be:1888 Bs:1888 Br:1888 Ca:1888 Cv:1888 Cs:1888 Cy:1888 Da:1888 De:1888 Et:1888 El:1888 Es:1888 Eo:1888 Eu:1888 Fo:1888 Fr:1888 Fy:1888 Ga:1888 Gl:1888 Ko:1888년 Hr:1888 Io:1888 Id:1888 Ia:1888 Is:1888 It:1888 He:1888 Ka:1888 Csb:1888 La:1888 Lt:1888 Lb:1888 Hu:1888 Mk:1888 Ms:1888 Nl:1888 Nds:1888 No:1888 Nn:1888 Os:1888 Pl:1888 Pt:1888 Ro:1888 Ru:1888 Sq:1888 Scn:1888 Simple:1888 Sk:1888 Sl:1888 Sr:1888 Fi:1888 Sv:1888 Tt:1888 Th:พ.ศ._2431 Tr:1888 Uk:1888 Wa:1888 Zh:1888年
1885 1886 1887 - 1888 - 1889 1890 1891 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Decades:'''
1850s 1860s 1870s - '''1880s''' - 1890s 1900s 1910s |- | align="center" | '''Centuries:'''
18th_century - '''19th_century''' - 20th_century
{{C19YearInTopic}} |} ==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_26 - Australia celebrates the first Centennary of European settlement. * 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. * May_28 - Celtic played their first official match against Rangers and won 5-2 * June_3 - "Kingdom_of_Sedang" formed in modern-day Vietnam * June_19 - In Chicago,_Illinois, Republican Convention opens at Auditorium Building. General Benjamin_Harrison & Levi_Morton will win the nominations. * July_27 - British_parliament passes an act that permits Bicycles on road on condition that they are equipped with a bell that should be rung while on the carriageway. The law is abolished 1930 * August_7 - The body of Martha_Tabram was found, a possible murder victim of Jack_the_Ripper * 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_6 - 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_8 - In London, the body of Annie_Chapman is found. She is generally 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 generally 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 typically 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 * John_Robert_Gregg first published Gregg_Shorthand * Slavery abolished in Brazil * Sarawak and Borneo become British Protectorates * 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. * The first recorded Film, Roundhay_Garden_Scene, is made in Roundhay in Leeds, West_Yorkshire, England. The film is two seconds (4 frames) in length. * First sightings of the dolphin Pelorus_Jack in Cook_Strait, New_Zealand ==Births== ===January-March=== * January_1 - Victor_Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (d. 1947) * January_8 - Matt Moore, Irish-born actor (d. 1960) * January_24 - Vicki_Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960) ** Ernst_Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958) * February_2 - Frederick_Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969) * February_17 - Otto_Stern, German physicist, Nobel_Prize laureate (d. 1969) * February_19 - José_Eustasio_Rivera, Colombian writer (d. 1928) * February_20 - Georges_Bernanos, French writer (d. 1948) * February_25 - John_Foster_Dulles, United_States_Secretary_of_State (d. 1959) * February_27 - Lotte_Lehmann, German singer (d. 1976) * March_1 - Ewart_Astill, English cricketer (Leicestershire) (d. 1948) * March_4 - Knute_Rockne, American football player and coach (d. 1931) * March_10 - Barry_Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d. 1966) * March_12 - Vaslav_Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer (d. 1950) * March_17 - Frank_Buck, big game hunter (d. 1950) * March_26 - Elsa_Brändström, Russian nurse (d. 1948) ===April-June=== * April_4 - Tris_Speaker, Baseball_Hall_of_Famer (d. 1958) * April_6 - Hans Richter, German filmmaker (d. 1976) * April_18 - Duffy_Lewis, Major_League_Baseball player (d. 1979) * April_26 - Anita_Loos, American writer (d. 1981) * April_27 - Florence_La_Badie, Canadian actress (d. 1917) * May_10 - Karl_Barth, Protestant theologian (d. 1968) ** Max_Steiner, Austrian-American composer (d. 1971) * May_11 - Irving_Berlin, American composer (d. 1989) * May_17 - Tich_Freeman, English cricketer (d. 1965) * May_23 - Zack_Wheat, Baseball_Hall_of_Famer (d. 1972) * May_25 - Miles_Malleson, English actor (d. 1969) * May_27 - Louis_Durey, French composer (d. 1979) * June_3 - Tom Brown, American jazz musician (d. 1958) * June_6 - Pete_Wendling, American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist (d. 1974) * June_9 - Ida_Rentoul_Outhwaite, Australian illustrator (d. 1960) * June_13 - Fernando_Pessoa, Portuguese writer (d. 1935) * June_24 - Gerrit_Rietveld, Dutch architect (d. 1964) ===July-October=== *July_5 - Herbert_Spencer_Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1963) *July_10 - Giorgio_Chirico, Italian painter (d. 1978) *July_16 - Frits_Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966) *July_17 - Shmuel_Yosef_Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970) *July_22 - Selman_Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine (d. 1973) *July_23 - Raymond_Chandler, American novelist (d. 1959) *August_14 - John_Logie_Baird, Scottish inventor (d. 1946) *August_16 - Armand_J._Piron, American jazz musician (d. 1943) *September_5 - Sarvepalli_Radhakrishnan, President_of_India (d. 1975) *September_6 - Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr., American politician (d. 1969) *September_12 - Maurice_Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972) *September_16 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) *September_26 - J._Frank_Dobie, American folklorist and journalist (d. 1964) *September_26 - T._S._Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965) *October_6 - Roland_Garros, French pilot (d. 1918) *October_7 - Henry_A._Wallace, Vice_President_of_the_United_States (d. 1965) *October_8 - Ernst_Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (d. 1964) *October_9 - Nikolai_Ivanovich_Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938) *October_16 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953) *October_16 - Paul_Popenoe, American eugenicist (d. 1979) ===November-December=== * November_7 - Chandrasekhara_Venkata_Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel_Prize laureate (d. 1980) * November_15 - Harald_Sverdrup, Norwegian scientist (d. 1957) * November_23 - Harpo_Marx, American comedian (d. 1964) * November_26 - Francisco_Canaro, Uruguayan-born violinist and composer (d. 1964) * November_30 - Ralph_Hartley, American electronics researcher and inventor (d. 1970) * December_4 - King Alexander_of_Yugoslavia (d. 1934) * December_19 - Fritz_Reiner, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963) * December_28 - F.W._Murnau, German film director (d. 1931) ==Deaths== * January_19 - Anton_de_Bary, German biologist (b. 1831) * January_29 - Edward_Lear, British artist and writer (b. 1812) * February_3 - Henry_Maine, British jurist (b. 1822) * March_6 - Louisa_May_Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832) * March_9 - German Emperor Wilhelm I (b. 1797) * March_12 - Henry_Bergh, founder of the American_Society_for_the_Prevention_of_Cruelty_to_Animals (b. 1811) * April_15 - Matthew_Arnold, English poet (b. 1822) * April_15 - Father_Damien, Belgian priest (b. 1811) * June_15 - German Emperor Friedrich III (b. 1840) * July_20 - Paul_Langerhans, German pathologist and biologist (b. 1847) * August_9 - Charles_Cros, French poet (b. 1831) * August_23 - Philip_Henry_Gosse, British scientist (b. 1810) * August_24 - Rudolf_Clausius, German physicist, contributions to Thermodynamics (b. 1822) * October_16 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815) * December_31 - Samson_Raphael_Hirsch, German rabbi (b. 1808) ==Marriages== * January_1 - Elias_Disney & Flora_Disney * April_11 - Henry_Ford & Clara_Jane_Bryant * May_2 - Josephus_Daniels & Addie_Worth_Bagley * September_5 - Billy_Sunday & HElen_Amelia_Thompson * September_11 - Robert_Homans & Agnes_Mary_Josephine_Mellon * November_29 - Axel_Blixen-Finecke & Bertha_Henriette_Marie_Castenschiold * December_20 - Charles_Urban & Julia_Avery Category:1888 Af:1888 Ar:1888 Ast:1888 Bg:1888 Be:1888 Bs:1888 Br:1888 Ca:1888 Cv:1888 Cs:1888 Cy:1888 Da:1888 De:1888 Et:1888 El:1888 Es:1888 Eo:1888 Eu:1888 Fo:1888 Fr:1888 Fy:1888 Ga:1888 Gl:1888 Ko:1888년 Hr:1888 Io:1888 Id:1888 Ia:1888 Is:1888 It:1888 He:1888 Ka:1888 Csb:1888 La:1888 Lt:1888 Lb:1888 Hu:1888 Mk:1888 Ms:1888 Nl:1888 Nds:1888 No:1888 Nn:1888 Os:1888 Pl:1888 Pt:1888 Ro:1888 Ru:1888 Sq:1888 Scn:1888 Simple:1888 Sk:1888 Sl:1888 Sr:1888 Fi:1888 Sv:1888 Tt:1888 Th:พ.ศ._2431 Tr:1888 Uk:1888 Wa:1888 Zh:1888年