WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1888
Find out what all happened March to December 1888

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

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

The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace. (29. October 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)

Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department. (9. December 1888)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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