The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation concluded in 1888 between Japan and Mexico was the nation's first " equal " treaty with any country ; which overshadows Tokugawa Ieyasu's pre-Edo period initiatives which sought to establish official relations with the New Spain in Mexico.

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.

** Sigave and Alo on the islands of Futuna and Alofi signed a treaty establishing a French protectorate on 16 February 1888 until annexed in 1917.

By this treaty and the previous acceptance of the British Residents System in Selangor ( 1875 ), Perak ( 1874 ), Negeri Sembilan ( 1873 ) and Pahang ( 1888 ); the FMS were officially turned into a nominally independent protectorate of Great Britain ( not to be confused with the British possessions like the territories of the Straits Settlements

In late 1888, Sultan Kenadid entered into a treaty with the Italians, making his Sultanate of Hobyo an Italian protectorate.

This treaty was renounced in 1888 due to lack of German support against Witbooi but it was reinstated in 1890.

In late 1888, Sultan Kenadid entered into a treaty with the Italians, making his realm an Italian protectorate.

Rhodes concluded a treaty with Lobengula, promising 100 rifles in return for concessions encompassing most of Matebeleland. Thus, through deception, Beit founded the British South Africa Company in 1888.

His first step was to persuade the Matabele King Lobengula, in 1888, to sign a treaty giving him rights to mining and administration ( but not settlement as such ) in the area of Mashonaland which was ruled by the King by use of coercion and murderous raids involved tribute-taking and abduction of young men and women.

On 28 April 1888 Sultan Khalifah bin Said of Zanzibar finally signed a treaty according to which he ceded the administration of the Tanganyika mainland to the German East Africa Company.

The Convention of Constantinople was a treaty signed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Austro-Hungary, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia and the Ottoman Empire on October 29, 1888.

They entered into treaty relations with the British in 1888 and created a unified sultanate in 1902 that would become a part of the Aden Protectorate.

The Local Government Act 1888 established a new sort of borough – the county borough.

The Kingdom of Rarotonga was established in 1858 and in 1888 it became a British protectorate by the request of Queen Makea Takau, mainly to thwart French expansionism.

1888 — Cook Islands are proclaimed a British protectorate and a single federal parliament is established.

Category: Organizations established in 1888

In 1888 he headed the commission that established the Official Table of Drops, listing how far a person of a particular weight should be dropped when hanged for a capital offence ( the only method of ' judicial execution ' in the United Kingdom at that time ), to ensure an instant and painless death, by cleanly breaking the neck between the 2nd and 3rd vertebrae, an ' exacting science ', eventually brought to perfection by Chief Executioner Albert Pierrepoint.

Parco Sempione, established in 1888, has an overall area of 386, 000 m².

In 1888, a university was established.

The U. S. Congress first established a Bureau of Labor in 1888 under the Department of the Interior.

In 1888, after signing successive treaties with the then ruling Somali Sultans such as Mohamoud Ali Shire of the Warsangali Sultanate, the British established a protectorate in the region referred to as British Somaliland.

The Mysore municipality was established in 1888 and the city was divided into eight wards.

The civic administration of the city is managed by the Mysore City Corporation, which was established as a municipality in 1888 and converted into a corporation in 1977.

By 1888 these evening sessions developed into formal classes and the Chicago College of Law was established.

Sparta Rotterdam () is the oldest professional football team in the Netherlands being established on 1 April 1888.

In July 1888, a football branch of the club was established.

In their place, the Privy Council was established in 1888 to evaluate the forthcoming constitution and to advise the emperor.

It was established in 1888 and is named after its first postmaster.

Between 1888 and 1889, democratic County Councils were established in Great Britain.

* 1888 Comstock community established.

It was established in 1888 and abandoned in 1912.

Westfield was established in 1888 in the center of the Dutch colony.

On June 9, 1888, Grant County was again established as a Kansas county, with original county boundaries, with the first officers of the new Grant County being sworn in on June 18, 1888.

Category: Populated places established in 1888

Category: Populated places established in 1888

The first result of Heidenstam's long sojourn abroad was a volume of poems, Pilgrimage And Wander-Years ( Vallfart och Vandringsar ), published in 1888.

By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.

About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

After correspondence with Miss Packard and to the joy of Miss Packard and Miss Giles, she came to Atlanta, in the fall of 1888, to help wherever needed, although there was then no money available to pay her a salary.

After all, she had come to Spelman Seminary in 1888, and had been since 1891 except for one year, Associate Principal or Dean.

* 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.

In 1888 Alfred's brother Ludvig died while visiting Cannes and a French newspaper erroneously published Alfred's obituary.

One of the enduringly influential early resolutions of the conference was the so-called Chicago-Lambeth Quadrilateral of 1888.

* 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.

** Lacour-Gayet, A. le Pieux et son Temps ( 1888 )

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