WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JULY 1888
Find out what all happened May to July 1888

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

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)

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

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

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