Notable Historical Events - 1888
1888 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 3 |
1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC |
Jan 5 |
Dutch Heidemaatschappij established |
Jan 7 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Valley of Fear" (BG) |
Jan 13 |
National Geographic Society founded (Washington, DC) |
Jan 27 |
National Geographic Society organizes (Wash DC) |
Jan 30 |
Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria |
Feb 2 |
Frank Sprague opens the first successful U.S. electric street railway system, the Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in Richmond, Virginia |
Feb 22 |
John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY) |
Feb 24 |
Louisville, Ky becomes 1st government in US to adopt Australian ballot |
Feb 28 |
Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes |
Feb 28 |
Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres |
Mar 2 |
The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace. |
Mar 10 |
1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Psyche" |
Mar 10 |
HW Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds |
Mar 11 |
Great blizzard of '88 strikes northeastern US |
Mar 12 |
2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die) |
Mar 13 |
Great Blizzard of 1888 rages |
Mar 14 |
2nd largest snowfall in NYC history (21") |
Mar 20 |
Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure "A Scandal in Bohemia" |
Mar 20 |
The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta staged in Moscow, Russia. |
Mar 21 |
Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender" premieres in London |
Mar 22 |
English Football League established |
Mar 25 |
Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber |
Apr 1 |
Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam |
Apr 7 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Yellow Face" (BG) |
Apr 11 |
The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated. |
Apr 16 |
Drentse & Friese peat cutters go on strike |
Apr 20 |
246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India |
Apr 24 |
Eastman Kodak forms |
Apr 29 |
Old Kavallison, Congo: Henry Morton Stanley meets Emin Pasha |
Apr 30 |
Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi |
May 4 |
Italy & Spain sign military covenant |
May 7 |
Edouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys" premieres in Paris |
May 7 |
George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera" |
May 11 |
16th Preakness: F Littlefield aboard Refund wins in 2:49 |
May 12 |
Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale |
May 13 |
DeWolf Hooper 1st recited "Casey at Bat" |
May 13 |
Princess Isabel of Brazil signs "Lei Auréa" abolishing slavery |
May 14 |
14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38.00 |
May 16 |
CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
May 22 |
Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers |
Jun 1 |
California gets its 1st seismograph |
Jun 3 |
"Casey at the Bat" published (SF Examiner) |
Jun 5 |
US Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president |
Jun 5 |
The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place. |
Jun 9 |
22nd Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Sir Dixon wins in 2:40.25 |
Jun 13 |
US Congress creates Department of Labor |
Jun 15 |
Wilhelm II becomes emperor of Germany |
Jun 20 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Libertas |
Jun 23 |
Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for US President |
Jun 25 |
Republican Convention in Chicago nominates Benjamin Harrison |
Jun 29 |
First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder. |
Jul 4 |
1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz |
Jul 11 |
118°F (48°C), Bennett, Colorado (state record) |
Jul 11 |
Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall |
Jul 15 |
Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years |
Jul 16 |
5th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (6-3 6-3) |
Jul 16 |
12th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ernest Renshaw beats H Lawford (6-3 7-5 6-0) |
Jul 23 |
John Boyd Dunlop applies to patent pneumatic tire |
Jul 27 |
Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile |
Aug 7 |
Theophilus Van Kannel of Phila patents revolving door |
Aug 10 |
NY Giant pitcher Tim Keefe sets a 19 game win streak record |
Aug 11 |
California Theatre closed (now a Pac Tel Phone Store) |
Aug 12 |
Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour |
Aug 19 |
1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins |
Aug 20 |
Longest US men's single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest |
Aug 21 |
William Seward Burroughs patents adding machine |
Aug 25 |
8th US Men's Tennis: Henry W Slocum Jr beats Howard A Taylor (64 61 60) |
Aug 30 |
Lord Walsingham kills 1,070 grouse in a single day |
Sep 1 |
Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens |
Sep 4 |
George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak" |
Sep 6 |
Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons' Imperial British East Africa Company political & commercial rights |
Sep 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). |
Sep 7 |
Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby to be placed in an incubator at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward's Island, New York |
Sep 8 |
In England the first six Football League matches ever are played. |
Sep 11 |
Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day is chosen. |
Sep 12 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Greek Interpreter" (BG) |
Sep 18 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Sign of Four" (BG) |
Sep 19 |
World's 1st beauty contest (Spa Belgium) |
Sep 25 |
Royal Court Theatre, London, opens |
Sep 25 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles" (BG) |
Sep 30 |
"Jack the Ripper" murders 2 more women, Liz Stride & Kate Eddowes, in Whitechapel, London |
Oct 1 |
National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time |
Oct 3 |
New Zealand Natives, a privately organised and mainly Māori rugby team, plays first game in UK; the first national rugby team to wear the silver fern |
Oct 9 |
Washington Monument opens for public admittance |
Oct 10 |
Teatotalers excursion train crushed, killing 64 (Mud Run Pa) |
Oct 17 |
Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). |
Oct 19 |
Moshav Gederah is attacked by Arabs |
Oct 20 |
Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ |
Oct 23 |
Pelham Bay Park in Bronx vested |
Oct 29 |
Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for British South Africa Company |
Oct 30 |
John J Loud patents ballpoint pen |
Oct 30 |
Ndebele-king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes, Mashonaland £100 per month |
Oct 31 |
Scottish vet John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tyre |
Nov 3 |
Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes |
Nov 6 |
Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes |
Nov 9 |
Jack Ripper's 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed |
Nov 14 |
St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes |
Nov 14 |
USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game |
Nov 17 |
Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony premieres in St Petersburg |
Nov 20 |
Willard Bundy patents timecard clock |
Dec 11 |
French Panama Canal Company fails |
Dec 18 |
Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Mesa Verde. |
Dec 19 |
Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa |
Dec 22 |
Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain |
Dec 23 |
Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear |
Dec 25 |
1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia |
Dec 30 |
Belgium: king Leopold II installs Order of African Star |
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