1888

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.

Years: 1885 1886 1887 - 1888 - 1889 1890 1891

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1888 in topic: Arts Architecture - Art - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths

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 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 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 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