6th September » Charles Turner (cricketer) called Charles Turner becomes the first bowler (cricket) known as bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season.4th September » George Eastman registers the trademark 'Kodak' and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.21st August » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs I or William Seward Burroughs.5th August » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.15th July » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai 1888 eruption of Mount Bandai e.g erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.Due to the death of his predecessors William I, German Emperor Wilhelm I and Frederick III, German Emperor Frederick III, 1888 is 15th June » Crown Prince William II, German Emperor Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire.5th June » The 1888 Río de la Plata earthquake named Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.3rd June » The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the 'San Francisco Examiner'.16th May » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to electric power transmission or transmit electric power over long distances.13th May » With the passage of the 'Lei Áurea' ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.11th April » The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.6th April » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson University e.g Clemson Agricultural College.3rd April » The first of eleven Whitechapel murders or unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.20th March » The premiere of the very first Romen Theatre Forerunners of Romen Theatre e.g Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.15th March » Start of the Sikkim Expedition or Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
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11th March » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.27th January » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.It was the largest telescope in the world at the time. 3rd January » The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time.