WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1888
Find out what all happened February to October 1888

The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs. (21. August 1888)

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

The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public. (9. October 1888)

The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia. (20. March 1888)

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College. (6. April 1888)

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

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)

An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England. (14. August 1888)

The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (15. July 1888)

The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated. (11. April 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)

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

Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). (17. October 1888)