WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO AUGUST 1888
Find out what all happened June to August 1888

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

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

Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims. (31. August 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 first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs. (21. 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)

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