* 1888: Heinrich Hertz of Hamburg, a city-state of the German Empire, successfully transmits and receives radio waves.

In 1888, in search of a better future for his family and himself, Benjamin made his way to Hamburg, Germany, and then took a ship to America.

After he left school in 1888 he spent a year in his father's business, then, in 1889 – 1890, he did military service in the Kassel Hussars followed by a short time as a bookseller in Hamburg.

He then trained as a mechanic and traveled to Hamburg, where in 1888 he was forced to join the crew of a sailing ship.

In tournaments, he was 1st – 4th at Berlin 1883, took 3rd at Berlin 1883, won at Hamburg 1885 ( Hauptturnier ), won at Berlin 1887, took 21st at Frankfurt 1887, tied for 4 – 5th at Berlin 1888, tied for 4 – 5th at Nuremberg 1888, tied for 15 – 16th at Breslau 1889, and tied for 5 – 8th at Berlin 1890.

The current club was formed as Hamburger Sport-Verein in 1919 through the union of three city teams severely weakened by World War I: Sportclub Germania zu Hamburg ; Hamburger FC ( 1888 ); and FC Falke Eppendorf ( 1906 ).

Barlach studied from 1888 to 1891 at the Gewerbeschule Hamburg.

* Die Chanuka Wunder, Magdeburg, 1888 ; and Die Lebende Megilla, Hamburg, 1888 ; both festival plays

* L. Häpke: " Fabricius und die Entdeckung der Sonnenflecken " (" Fabricius and the Discovery of Sunspots ") in: Abhandlungen des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen, 10, 1888, pp. 249-272.

Between 1884 and 1888 he appeared on several stages in the Netherlands and Germany ( Rotterdam, Bremen, etc .).

In 1888 her parents moved from Dresden to Bremen.

He joined HMS Colossus in April 1886 and was then in charge of the HMS Excellent experimental department from 6 December 1886 to 10 May 1888.

In 1888 he joined the Verein für Socialpolitik, a new professional association of German economists affiliated with the historical school, who saw the role of economics primarily as finding solutions to the social problems of the age and who pioneered large scale statistical studies of economic issues.

He joined the faculty of Bryn Mawr College ( 1885 – 88 ) and then Wesleyan University ( 1888 – 90 ), where he also coached the football team and founded the debate team – still called the T. Woodrow Wilson debate team.

Several other black American players joined the International League the following season, including pitchers George Stovey and Robert Higgins, but 1888 was the last season blacks were permitted in that or any other high minor league.

The two governments were joined in 1888.

They joined the Football League on April 17, 1888, one of the original twelve teams.

In 1888 three more of the Gates brothers and their sons joined the business, which lead to the formal registration of the company under the name of the West Surrey Central Dairy Company, which after development of its dried milk baby formula in 1906 became Cow & Gate.

In 1888, Patrick Garrett ( known as the Sheriff who had shot Billy the Kid ) along with promoter Charles Greene, joined forces with Eddy to design and build a system of canals and flumes to divert water to their ranches and properties.

William ( Will ) graduated in 1883 and joined his father's practice, with Charles ( Charlie ) joining after he completed his training in 1888.

Finally in 1888 Chile annexed Easter Island, located some 2, 000 miles west of Valparaíso, and by occupying Easter Island, Chile joined the imperial nations.

In 1882, he joined his regiment in South Africa, and served in the Bechuanaland Expedition of 1884-1885 on patrol duties, and then in Zululand in 1888.

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

When George's brother Charles joined the business in 1888, the company's name was changed to its more familiar form.

In 1883, the club played in the Montreal Winter Carnival, and joined the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada ( AHAC ) in 1888 and were members until 1898.

The Annex area became part of Toronto in 1887 and Seaton Village joined Toronto in 1888.

After he died in 1886, the studio was managed by his brother Cosmi until Pascal's son, Jean, joined him in 1888.

A new Primitive Methodist Chapel was joined onto it in 1888.

Gordon Macdonald, PC, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor, ( 27 May 1888 – 20 January 1966 ) was a British Labour Party politician and Newfoundland's final British governor as well as the last chairman of the Commission of Government serving from 1946 until the colony joined Confederation in 1949 and became a province of Canada.

Initially running as an independent in the election of 1888, being elected in Craiova, he switched to conservative politics ( generally associated with the landowner circles ), and joined the Conservative Party in 1891.

Nock attended St. Stephen's College ( now known as Bard College ) from 1884 – 1888, where he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity.

Solf joined the German Foreign Office ( Consular Service ) on 12 December 1888 and was assigned to the Imperial German Consulate General in Calcutta on 1 January 1889.

Sverdrup joined Fridtjof Nansen's expedition of 1888 across Greenland.

Lehmann joined Arsenal on 25 July 2003 as a replacement for David Seaman, and played every match as Arsenal went unbeaten for the entire 2003 – 04 FA Premier League season, becoming the first English club to accomplish this feat since Preston North End in the 1888 – 89 season.

Captain Blackadder claims to have joined the army in 1888, when " if you saw someone in a skirt, you shot him and nicked his country ".

* November 17 – Gladys Cooper, English actress ( b. 1888 )

* June 17 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player ( b. 1888 )

* Mistahi-maskwa ( recorded as Mistihui ' muskwa or as Mistahimusqua ; better known as Big Bear in English and as Gros Ours in French ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born about 1825, son of the Ojibwa-Chief Mukitou (‘ Black Powder ’), mastered his native language, the Cree language, as well as Ojibwe language, led the last resistance to the dispersal of the Cree on many reservations and asked for a big total reserve, a revolt of the young warriors under the leadership of one of his sons in 1885 destroyed these plans, died 17 January 1888 on the Poundmaker reservation in North Battleford in Saskatchewan.

Shortly before Carl Nielsen met his wife, he had a son Carl August Hansen ( 8 January 1888 – 4 April 1963 ) by a housemaid, Karen Marie Hansen ( 4 September 1865 – 17 March 1949 ).

The village was officially established upon the arrival of a post office on June 17, 1888.

It was renamed on April 17, 1888 for Oscar T. Brinton.

In 1851 the US government formed the first treaty with the Native American tribes, in 1885 the tribes engaged in the last known buffalo hunt in the region, and in 1887 a treaty was signed where the tribes surrendered 17. 5 million acres, which led from 1888 to the formation of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and the removal of the tribes from the Glasgow area.

Hauling Wheat to Mill, Ritzville c. 1908 Following the rebuilding from the fire, Ritzville was incorporated as a town in 1888 and was officially re-incorporated as a city on July 17, 1890 after Washington became a state.

Dame Gladys Constance Cooper DBE ( 18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971 ) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television.

" Piron ( August 16, 1888 – February 17, 1943 ) was an American jazz violinist, band leader, and composer.

On 1 January 1888, the Krakken farm ( population: 17 ) was transferred from Hyllestad and eight farms ( population: 317 ) from Askvoll were all transferred to Utvær.

On 1 January 1888, the Krakken farm ( population: 17 ) on the island of Sula was transferred to the municipality of Solund.

Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (; 17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954 ) was a German general during World War II.

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.

Geoffrey Keyes ( October 30, 1888 – September 17, 1967 ) was a U. S. Army Lieutenant General who commanded the II Corps during World War II.

Ronald Arbuthnott Knox ( 17 February 1888 – 24 August 1957 ) was an English priest, theologian and writer, including crime novels and regular broadcasts for BBC Radio.

Zworykin was born in Murom, Russia, in 1888, on July 29 ( old style July 17 ), to the family of a prosperous merchant.

The first delegates met in Jackson on March 17, 1888 to organize the MIAA.

The example at right was cancelled at Hanoi ( spelled " HA-NOI ") in Tonkin, on 17 March 1888.

Patrick Houston Shaw-Stewart ( 17 August 1888 – 30 December 1917 ) was an Eton College and Oxford scholar of the Edwardian era who died on active service as a battalion commander in the Royal Naval Division during the First World War.

* in Tanganyika, the area acquired on 17 February 1885 by Carl Peters for the Deutsche Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft ( DOAG, ' German East African Company ', that was initially under an Administrator: 27 May 1885-8 February 1888 Karl Peters ), since the proclamation of the German East African protectorate ( 7 May 1885-1 July 1890 ) over Witu in Kenya ; contested by Britain ; on 28 April 1888 Germany obtains a lease of the coastal strip from the Sultan of Zanzibar ), a single Reichskommissar is appointed ( 8 February 1888-21 February 1891: Hermann von Wissmann ( b. 1853-d. 1905 ), after him Governors of 1 January 1891 when proclaimed German East Africa colony ( Deutsch Ostafrika ), ending the ' private ' DOAG rule.

* Countess Karola Friderika Festetics de Tolna ( 17 January 1888, Vienna — 21 January 1951, Strobl ); who was married to Baron Oskar Gautsch von Frankenthurn.

A charter was drawn up and filed in Olympia on March 17, 1888.