Major Events
- Jan 13 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. for "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge" [1]
- Mar 2 The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace
- Aug 21 American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine
- Aug 31 The body of Jack the Ripper's first victim, Mary Ann Nichols, is found in Whitechapel in London's East End
- Sep 7 Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby to be placed in an incubator at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York
- Dec 23 Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a female courtesan for safe keeping
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1888 in Music
- Jun 29 First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's "Israel in Egypt" on wax cylinder
1888 in Sport
- Feb 22 “Father of American Golf” John Reid first demonstrates golf on a Yonkers cow pasture to friends
- May 12 Crouching start 1st used in track and field by Charles Sherrill of Yale
- Oct 3 New Zealand Natives, a privately organised and mainly Māori rugby team, plays first game in UK; beats Surry 4-1; first national rugby team to wear all-black & perform the 'haka'
Did You Know?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky' conducts the premiere of his 5th Symphony at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia
John Foster Dulles
John Logie Baird
T. E. Lawrence
T. S. Eliot
Eugene O'Neill
Richard E. Byrd
Lead Belly
Florence Price
Irving Berlin
Tris Speaker
Clarence DeMar
José Raúl CapablancaMore People Born in 1888
Fun Fact About 1888
Longest US men's single tennis tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80 game 1st-round contest
Louisa May Alcott
Wilhelm I
Matthew Arnold
Charles Crocker
John Pemberton
Mary Ann NicholsMore 1888 Deaths
Articles About 1888
Famous Weddings in 1888
- Jan 1 55th UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George (25) weds first wife Margaret Owen
- Apr 11 Industrialist Henry Ford (24) weds Clara Jane Bryant (22) in Greenfield Township, Michigan
- Sep 27 Balloon wedding of Margaret Buckley and Edward T. Davis in front of 40,000 people at the Rhode Island State Fair [1]
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Grover Cleveland
Otto von Bismarck
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil