Important Historical Events of the year 1888, Year 1888 in History

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List of 1888 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1888

What happened in the year 1888?

Date	Event
January 13, 1888	The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
March 11, 1888	The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400 people.
March 15, 1888	Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
March 20, 1888	The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
March 23, 1888	In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
April 3, 1888	Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
May 12, 1888	In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
May 13, 1888	With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), the Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery.
May 16, 1888	Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
June 5, 1888	The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
June 14, 1888	The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
June 15, 1888	Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
June 29, 1888	George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
July 15, 1888	The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts, killing approximately 500 people in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
August 5, 1888	Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
August 21, 1888	The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
August 31, 1888	Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
September 4, 1888	George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
September 8, 1888	Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.
September 8, 1888	The Great Herding (Spanish: El Gran Arreo) begins with thousands of sheep being herded from the Argentine outpost of Fortín Conesa to Santa Cruz near the Strait of Magellan.
September 8, 1888	In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
September 8, 1888	In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
September 30, 1888	Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
October 14, 1888	Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
October 15, 1888	The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
October 21, 1888	The Swiss Social Democratic Party is founded.
October 29, 1888	The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
October 30, 1888	The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
December 22, 1888	The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.