Events
DateEvent
1888 Jean-Delphin Alard Died
1888 Charles-Valentin Alkan Died
1888 May Aufderheide Was Born
1888 Carmen Barradas Was Born
1888 Irving Berlin Was Born
1888 Johanna Beyer Was Born
1888 Emil Bohnke Was Born
1888 Fritz Bovet Died
1888 Francisco Canaro Was Born
1888 Philip Greeley Clapp Was Born
1888 Cecil Coles Was Born
1888 William Denis Browne Was Born
1888 Jakob Dont Died
1888 Louis Durey Was Born
1888 Stephen Heller Died
1888 Thomas German Reed Died
1888 Max Steiner Was Born
1888 Matthijs Vermeulen Was Born
1888 Julius Weissenborn Died
1888 Franz Xaver Witt Died
January 03 1888 Refracting Telescope At Lick Observatory Used For First Time
January 27 1888 National Geographic Society Founded In Washington, DC
March 11 1888 1888 Great Blizzard Kills 400
March 15 1888 Start Of The Anglo-Tibetan War Of 1888
March 20 1888 Moscow: Premier Of First Romani Operetta
March 23 1888 World's Oldest Football League Meets In England
April 03 1888 Eleven Unsolved Brutal Murders Of Women
April 06 1888 Clemson Dies, Bequeathing Estate South Carolina
April 11 1888 Concertgebouw In Amsterdam Inaugurated
April 14 1888 Asa Candler Purchased One-Third Stake in Coca-Cola
May 13 1888 Brazil Abolishes Slavery With 'Golden Law'
May 16 1888 Tesla Lectures On Equipment For Long-distance Power
June 03 1888 Thayer's ""Casey At The Bat"" Published In S. Francisco Examiner
June 05 1888 The Rio De La Plata Earthquake Takes Place
June 15 1888 Kaiser Wilhelm II To Be Last German Emperor
June 29 1888 George Edward Gouraud Records Handel's Israel
July 15 1888 500 Killed In Mount Bandai Eruption, Japan
August 05 1888 Bertha Benz Drives From Mannheim To Pforzheim
August 14 1888 ""The Lost Chord"" Played Press Conference
August 16 1888 John Pemberton Dies
August 21 1888 William Seward Burroughs Patents First Calculator
August 30 1888 Asa Candler Gains Sole Control of Coca-Cola
August 31 1888 Jack The Ripper's First Victim Murdered
September 04 1888 Film Camera And Kodak Trademarked By George Eastman
September 06 1888 Charles Turner Sets Wickets Record
September 08 1888 Spaniard Peral's Was The First Practical Submarine
September 08 1888 Jack The Ripper's Second Victim Found In London
September 08 1888 The First Matches Are Played In England
September 22 1888 First National Geographic Magazine Published
September 30 1888 Jack The Ripper Kills His Third And Fourth Victims
October 09 1888 Washington Monument Officially Opens
October 14 1888 Pince Films First Motion Picture
October 15 1888 Jack The Ripper Sends ""From Hell"" Letter
October 17 1888 Edison Files Patent For Optical Phonograph
October 21 1888 Swiss Social Democratic Party Founded
October 29 1888 Convention Guarantees Suez Canal Passage
October 30 1888 King Lobengula Of Matabeleland Grants Rudd Concession
November 09 1888 Final Victim Of Ripper Killed
December 09 1888 Herman Hollerith Device At US War Dept
December 18 1888 Richard Wetherill Discovers Native American Ruins