WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1888
Find out what all happened January to June 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 Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated. (11. April 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. (15. June 1888)

Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College. (6. April 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)

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

The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place. (5. June 1888)

In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional Association Football league, meets for the first time. (23. March 1888)

The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia. (20. March 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. (29. June 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)

With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery. (13. May 1888)

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

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