1888
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years: 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 - 1888 - 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
See also: 1888 is called the Year of Three Emperors in Germany.
Events
- January 24 - Jacob L. Wortman[?] patents the typewriter ribbon[?].
- 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 English Football League[?] is formed
- May 13 - Brazil abolishes slavery.
- August 31 - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims.
- Alexander Graham Bell founds the National Geographic Society.
- Brazil abolishes slavery
- November - Benjamin Harrison defeats Grover Cleveland in the U.S. presidential election
- George Eastman invents celluloid roll film, markets Kodak, first simple to use mass produced camera.
- Gramophone patented by Emile Berliner
Births
- January 24 - Vicki Baum[?], writer (+ 1960)
- January 24 - Ernst Heinkel, aircraft designer (+ 1958)
- February 17 - Otto Stern[?], physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 (+ 1969)
- February 25 - John Foster Duller[?], United States Secretary of State (+ 1959)
- February 27 - Lotte Lehmann[?], singer (+ 1976)
- March 4 - Knute Kenneth Rockne, American football player
- March 12 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer
- March 17 - Frank Buck[?], "big game" hunter (+ 1950)
- March 26 - Elsa Brändström, "The Angel of Siberia"
- April 4 - Tris Speaker, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1958)
- April 6 - Hans Richter, German filmmaker
- April 26 - Anita Loos[?], writer (+ 1981)
- April 27 - Florence La Badie, pioneer actress (+ 1917)
- May 10 - Max Steiner, composer (+ 1971)
- May 11 - Irving Berlin, composer (+ 1989)
- May 23 - Zack Wheat[?], Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1972)
- May 25 - Miles Malleson, actor (+ 1969)
- May 27 - Louis Durey, composer, member of Les Six (+ 1979)
- May 28 - Jim Thorpe, American sportsman
- June 24 - Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect
- July 10 - Giorgio Chirico, painter (+ 1978)
- August 13 - John Logie Baird, first demonstrated the television
- September 26 - T. S. Eliot, American/British poet
- October 7 - Henry A. Wallace, vice president of the United States
- October 9 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician
- October 16 - Eugene O'Neill, American dramatist
- November 23 - Harpo Marx, comedian, The Marx Brothers (+ 1964)
- December 4 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia[?]
- December 28 - F.W. Murnau, German director
- March 10 - Barry Fitzgerald, actor (+ 1966)
- Irving Berlin, American composer
- Raymond Chandler, American novelist
- Maurice Chevalier, French actor
- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Australian illustrator
- Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher
- Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer
- Max Steiner, Austrian film maker
- Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian scientist
Deaths
- January 29 - Edward Lear, British artist and writer
- February 3 - Henry Maine, British jurist
- March 6 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist
- March 9 - German Emperor Wilhelm I
- April 15 - Father Damien, Belgian priest
- June 15 - German Emperor Friedrich III
- October 16 - John Wentworth, mayor of Chicago, United States
- Anton de Bary, German biologist
- Henry Bergh, founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- Charles Cros, French poet
- Philip Henry Gosse, British scientist
Moxon's recent ed.
recollect this passage when he wrote,--
"Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great"?
dissyllable: compare, in the Fourth Act of our author's
And, after that," &c.
<73> of] i.e. on.
<74> worse] So the 8vo.--The 4to "worst."
<75> the] So the 8vo.--The 4to "that."
<76> his] So the 8vo.--The 4to "the."
<77> be] So the 8vo.--The 4to "are."
<78> Beside] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Besides."
<79> champion] i.e. champaign.
<80> greedy after] Old eds. "after greedie."
<81> Sprung] Here, and in the next speech, both the old eds.
and in the SEC. PART of the play, act iv. sc. 4, they both give
"For he was never sprung<118> of human race,">
<82> teeth of] So the 8vo.--Omitted in the 4to.
<83> lance] Here both the old eds. "lanch": but see note ||,
--The 4to "renowned."
<89> thirst] The 8vo "thrust": the 4to "thrist."
<90> and] So the 4to.--The 8vo "not."
<91> the fair] So the 8vo.--The 4to "THEE faire."
<92> she] i.e. Nemesis.
<93> Rhamnus'] Old.
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