WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1888
Find out what all happened January to November 1888

Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888. (15. March 1888)

The "From Hell" letter sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators. (15. October 1888)

George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film. (4. September 1888)

The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated. (11. April 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. (16. May 1888)

Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. (14. October 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. (5. August 1888)

Mary Jane Kelly is murdered in London, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper. (9. November 1888)

In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made. (8. September 1888)

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). (6. September 1888)

Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims. (31. August 1888)

The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time. (3. January 1888)

The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published. (22. September 1888)

The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner. (3. June 1888)

The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs. (3. April 1888)

Rudd Concession granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes led by Charles Rudd. (30. October 1888)

In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found. (8. September 1888)

The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400. (11. March 1888)

The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. (27. January 1888)

Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. (30. September 1888)