WHAT HAPPENED IN 1888.
Look what happened the 1888.

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

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

Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. (30. September 1888)

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

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 first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs. (21. August 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 poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner. (3. 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)

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

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

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

Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. (14. October 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)

Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde. (18. December 1888)

In England the first six Football League matches are played. (8. September 1888)

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

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