* Albert G. Ingalls ( 1888 – 1958 ), editor of Amateur Telescope Making, Vols.

In 1859, Nobel's father left his factory in the care of the second son, Ludvig Nobel ( 1831 – 1888 ), who greatly improved the business.

* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.

* 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Hans Richter, Swiss painter, filmmaker, and graphic artist ( d. 1976 )

* 1888 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian ( d. 1967 )

* 1839 – Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist ( d. 1964 )

* 1846 – Anna Haining Bates, Canadian giant ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German singer ( d. 1952 )

* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )

* 1888 – Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor ( d. 1975 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

* 1800 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, English soldier ( d. 1888 )

Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

* 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.

* 1815 – John Bosco, Italian priest and educator ( d. 1888 )

* 1888 – T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier ( d. 1935 )

* 1888 – Armand J. Piron, American violinist, bandleader, and composer ( d. 1943 )

* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

* He married 1908, Cleope Teresa Magliano ( 1888 – 1926 ), a dancer with the Ballet Opera of Monte Carlo.

* Alexander I of Yugoslavia ( 1888 – 1934 ), first king of Yugoslavia

In the 16th century, a town was recognised as a city by the English Crown if it had a diocesan cathedral within its limits, but this link was abolished in 1888.

Crown Prince Frederick William had just turned 56 before the year 1888.

Vetsera met the Crown Prince in November 1888 and began a three-month-long affair with him.

* at Rarotonga since the 1888 establishment of the British protectorate over the Cook Islands ; the third and last incumbent stayed on as first Resident Commissioner since 1901, at the incorporation in the British Western Pacific Territories ( under a single High Commissioner, till its 1976 dissolution, in Suva or Honoria ), until the abolition of the post at the 1965 self-government grant as territory in free association with New Zealand, having its own cabinet ( still under the British Crown, which after the 1976 appoints a special King's / Queens Representative as well as a High Commissioner ).

The lake was named Lake Rudolf ( in honor of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria ) by Count Sámuel Teleki de Szék and his second-in-command Lieutenant Ludwig Ritter Von Höhnel, a Hungarian and an Austrian, 6 March 1888.

During the Weimar Republic ( 1918 – 33 ), the political philosopher Carl Schmitt ( 1888 – 1985 ), whose legal work as the “ Crown Jurist of the Third Reich ” promoted fascism and deconstructed liberal democracy, addressed the matter in Legalität und Legitimität ( Legality and Legitimacy, 1932 ) an anti-democratic polemic treatise that asked: How can parliamentary government make for law and legality, when a 49 per cent minority accepts as politically legitimate the political will of a 51 per cent majority?

* Palme und Krone ( Palm and Crown ; Leipzig, 1888 )

* 9 March 188815 June 1888: Her Imperial and Royal Highness The German Crown Princess, Crown Princess of Prussia

When Albrecht was made a Feldmarschall in March 1888, Crown Prince Rudolf was appointed his subordinate as Generalinspekteur der Infanterie ( Inspector General of Infantry ).

* Apology ( horse ) ( 1871 – 1888 ), a Thoroughbred mare and winner of the 1874 British Triple Crown

* Friedrich III ( 1831-1888 )-better remembered as " Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm " of Prussia ; general during the German wars of unification ; briefly German emperor, March to June 1888 ; Died of throat cancer

The Crown of William II, also known as the Hohenzollern Crown, is the 1888 crown made for William II, German Emperor in his role as King of Prussia.

The economists Ludwig Bamberger and Georg von Siemens, as well as the social liberal politician Eugen Richter were among the prime movers of the fusion, in the view of the coming accession of considered " liberal " Crown Prince Frederick William to the throne ( which took place only in 1888 ).

The second experimental film, Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed by Louis Le Prince on October 14, 1888 in Roundhay, Leeds, England, is now known as the earliest surviving motion picture.

However, the first moving picture was shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince in 1888 and the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890.

* 1888 – Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.

The first narrative film was created by Louis Le Prince in 1888.

* 1888 – Louis Le Prince makes Roundhay Garden Scene, considered the first film ever made.

* Prince Axel of Denmark ( 1888 – 1964 )

It transferred to the Prince of Wales Theatre on December 20 and to the Lyric Theatre on December 17, 1888 for a record-setting total run of 931 performances.

The Royal Norfolk Golf Club was founded in 1888 and given royal status by the Prince of Wales in the same year.

One of the first patented motion-picture film cameras was designed by Louis Le Prince in 1888.

In 1851, Victoria met her future husband, Prince Frederick William of Prussia ( 18 October 1831 – 15 June 1888 ), when he and his parents were invited to London by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to attend the opening of the Great Exhibition.

The foundation stone of the Technical School building was laid on 9 May 1888 by the Prince and Princess of Wales ; the building was completed towards the end of 1894.

A Frenchman who also worked in the United Kingdom and the United States, Le Prince conducted his ground-breaking work in 1888 in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK.

In October 1888, Le Prince filmed moving picture sequences Roundhay Garden Scene and a Leeds Bridge street scene using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper film.

In 1888 Le Prince was granted an American dual-patent on a 16-lens device that combined a motion picture camera with a projector.

60mm film spools used by Le Prince on his # LePrince Cine Camera-Projector types | 1888 single-lens camera-projector MkII ( 1930 Science Museum, London )

On October 14, 1888, Le Prince used an updated version ( MkII ) of his single-lens camera to film Roundhay Garden Scene.

The Happy Prince and Other Tales ( sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories ) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888.

* Prince Oscar ( 1859 – 1888 only as per royal court )

Recorded wrecks on the 5 km stretch of coastline between Trwyn y Witch and Nash Point include: the Royal Hunter ( 1747 ), the Indian Prince ( 1752 ), the Elizabeth ( 1753 ), the Prince ( 1764 ), the George ( 1770 ), the Industry ( 1786 ), the Thomas ( 1806 ), the Bee ( 1820 ), the Harriet ( 1827 ), the Jessie Orasie ( 1831 ), the Frolic ( 1831 ), the Providence ( 1832 ), the Mayflower ( 1841 ), the New Felicity ( 1841 ), the Vigo ( 1842 ), the Betsey ( 1849 ), the Lucie ( 1854 ), the Williams ( 1854 ), the Mary & Deffus ( 1861 ), the Gillies ( 1862 ), the Elphis ( 1865 ), the Amelie ( 1870 ), the New Dominian ( 1872 ), the Bessie ( 1872 ), the John & Eliza ( 1876 ), the Jane & Susan ( 1882 ), the Ben-y-gloe ( 1886 ), the Malleny ( 1886 ), the Caterina Camogle ( 1887 ), the Denbigh ( 1888 ), the Tilburnia ( 1888 ), the Claymore ( 1892 ), the Lizzie ( 1892 ), the Elizabeth Couch ( 1913 ), the Narcissus ( 1916 ), the Pollensa ( 1919 ) and the Cato ( 1951 ).