* 1888 – Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde.

* 1888 – Richard Courant, German-American mathematician ( d. 1972 )

* 1888 – Richard E. Byrd, American explorer ( d. 1957 )

In 1888 Richard Lydekker designated Pterodactylus antiquus the type species.

In 1888, Richard Dedekind proposed a collection of axioms about the numbers, and in 1889 Peano published a more precisely formulated version of them as a collection of axioms in his book, The principles of arithmetic presented by a new method ().

* March 11 – Richard E. Byrd, American explorer ( b. 1888 )

* Richard Francis Burton — translation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( 1885 – 1888 )

* 1885 – 1888 – Sir Richard Francis Burton publishes an English translation from several sources ( largely the same as Payne ).

Design reform began with the organisers of the Exhibition itself, Henry Cole ( 1808 – 1882 ), Owen Jones ( 1809 – 1874 ), Matthew Digby Wyatt ( 1820 – 1877 ) and Richard Redgrave ( 1804 – 1888 ).

The world's first long distance road trip by automobile took place in Germany in August 1888 when Bertha Benz, the wife of Karl Benz, the inventor of the first patented motor car ( the Benz Patent-Motorwagen ), travelled from Mannheim to Pforzheim ( a distance of ) in the third experimental Benz motor car ( which had a maximum speed of ) and back, with her two teenage sons Richard and Eugen but without the consent and knowledge of her husband.

Richard Burke died in 1883, and the school struggled until 1888, when Samual M. Samson arrived in Amity.

A post office was established in November 1888 and named after storekeeper / postmaster Richard J. Gooding.

Under the provostship of Richard Okes, from 1850 until his death in 1888, the college began a period of reform.

The formalization of arithmetic ( the theory of natural numbers ) as an axiomatic theory, started with Peirce in 1881, and continued with Richard Dedekind and Giuseppe Peano in 1888.

* Richard Boyle ( rower ) ( 1888 – 1953 ), British rower ; medallist at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN ( 25 October 1888 – 11 March 1957 ) was a naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration.

It emerged that the letters were forgeries written by journalist Richard Pigott, and Parnell was personally vindicated by the Parnell Commission in 1888 – 89.

* Richard Evelyn Byrd ( 1888 – 1957 )-US naval officer whose expeditions may have been the first to reach the North Pole and the South Pole by air.

His biographies of Henry Fielding ( 1883 ), Thomas Bewick ( 1884 ), Richard Steele ( 1886 ), Oliver Goldsmith ( 1888 ), Horace Walpole ( 1890 ) and William Hogarth ( 1879-1891-1897-1902-1907 ) are studies marked alike by assiduous research, sympathetic presentation and sound criticism.

In 1888 Grossmith joined the company of Richard Mansfield in Wealth, playing the role of Percy Palfreyman.

In 1888, he became music director of Globe Theatre in London, also providing popular incidental music for many of its productions and those of other London theatres, including Richard III ( 1889 ), Henry VIII ( 1892 ) and Nell Gwynn ( 1900 ).

In 1888, with an introduction by conductor Alberto Randegger to theatre manager Richard Mansfield, German was appointed conductor and Musical Director of the Globe Theatre in London.

* Richard Evelyn Byrd ( 1888 – 1957 ), admiral, polar explorer, aviator

The use of multisets in mathematics predates the name " multiset " by nearly 90 years: Richard Dedekind used multisets in a paper published in 1888.

Interred in the Zentralfriedhof are notables such as Beethoven and Schubert who were moved there in 1888, and Johannes Brahms, Antonio Salieri, Johann Strauss II and Arnold Schoenberg.

Kaiser-Jubiläum Jubelwalzer is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II in 1888 to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the accession to throne of his monarch, Emperor Franz Josef who commissioned the waltz in order to celebrate the progress of Vienna and the prosperity of Austria and its colonies in the Balkan.

Strauss began composition in the late summer of 1888 and completed the work on November 18, 1889.

Mahler completed what would become the first movement of the symphony in 1888 as a single-movement symphonic poem called Totenfeier ( Funeral Rites ).

* Scheherazade ( Rimsky-Korsakov ), a symphonic suite composed in 1888 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, later used for a ballet by Michel Fokine

Other orchestral works by Draeseke include the Serenade in F major ( 1888 ), its companion of the same year, the symphonic prelude after Kleist's Penthesilea.

35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888.

" Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 " is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.

Incidentally, the first public performance of the poem was on August 14, 1888, by actor De Wolf Hopper, on Thayer's 25th birthday.

* 1888 – The poem " Casey at the Bat ", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.

The new influences from Ritter resulted in what is widely regarded as Strauss's first piece to show his mature personality, the tone poem Don Juan ( 1888 ), which displays a new kind of virtuosity in its bravura orchestral manner.

* " Over the Banister ," 19th-century melody adapted by Conrad Salinger, lyrics from the 1888 poem " Over the Banisters " by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, adapted by Roger Edens ( 1944 ), performed by Judy Garland.

* An 1888 illustrated version of Robert Browning's poem ( Illustrated by Kate Greenaway )

His last poem As I laye a-thynkynge, published in 1888, was set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar.

Pierre De Geyter ( 1848 – 1932 ) set the poem to music in 1888.

" Eliot said " The Love Song of " portion of the title came from " The Love Song of Har Dyal ," a poem by Rudyard Kipling, published in the 1888 collection Plain Tales from the Hills.

As such it has become extremely popular sung to the English composer Hubert Parry's tune Repton taken from the 1888 oratorio Judith and set to the latter part of Whittier's poem in 1924 by Dr George Gilbert Stocks.

There is an unsettled debate about whether Kelly was the model for the title character in Ernest Lawrence Thayer ’ s 1888 poem " Casey at the Bat.

* Hugo Wolf used Goethe's poem for his lied Anakreons Grab ( written 1888, published 1890, orchestrated version 1893 ).

English translations of the poem were published by William Probert in 1820 and by John Williams ( Ab Ithel ) in 1852, followed by translations by William Forbes Skene in his Four Ancient Books of Wales ( 1866 ) and by Thomas Stephens for the Cymmrodorion Society in 1888.

H. Leivick ( pen name of Leivick Halpern, December 25, 1888 – December 23, 1962 ) was a Yiddish language writer, known for his 1921 " dramatic poem in eight scenes " The Golem.

His first ( known ) poem was titled * The Prince ’ s Lodge ( later retitled as " Passing Away " and published in 1888 ).

A lifelong baseball enthusiast and New York Giants fan, he first performed Ernest Thayer's then-unknown poem Casey at the Bat to the Giants and Chicago Cubs the day his friend, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Tim Keefe had his record 19 game winning streak stopped, August 14, 1888.

As a poet Arnsztajnowa debuted at the age of 23 with the poem " Na okręcie " ( On Board a Ship ) published in the newspaper Kuryer Codzienny of 1 October 1888.

Kitamura married Ishizaka Mina at the age of 19 in 1888, and in the same year he published the long verse Soshū no shi (" The Poem of the Prisoner "), which was the longest Japanese poem written in free verse up until that time.