The population of Ribeirão Preto includes, amongst other groups, descendents of Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese immigrants who were attracted to the region because of the coffee agriculture, right after the Abolition of Slavery in 1888, when immigrants were granted lands, after being indentured workers.

While Fiordland as such remained one of the least-explored areas of New Zealand up to the 20th century, Milford Sound's natural beauty soon attracted national and international renown, and led to the discovery of the Mackinnon Pass in 1888, soon to become a part of the new Milford Track, an early walking tourism trail.

The rural scenery attracted artists during the 1880s, due to the absence of public utilities or a railway ( until 1888 ), causing houses to be vacant, and available at low rents.

In the early 1888, the group, consisting of 19 people, including other future IMRO-revolutionaries was attracted by the Serbian propaganda.

Tchaikovsky was attracted to this particular theme because the topic of the Fifth Symphony is Providence, according to the composer's notebook page dated 15 April 1888, which was about one month before he began composition of the symphony.

Some of the clubs not invited to join the League, including Olympic, formed The Combination, but this was a poorly organised competition which attracted only small crowds and collapsed before the end of the 1888 – 89 season.

He influenced many other poets, notably T. S. Eliot ( 1888 – 1965 ), another expatriate.

In 1888 Ioannes Trampatzes, another expatriate Greek merchant, this one in Romania, donated the funds for the Trampatzeion Gymnasium.

* Fanny Heldy ( 1888 – 1973 ), Belgian soprano

Its specific name phantasticus is the Latin word for " imaginary " based upon the gecko's unique appearance which led Belgian naturalist George Albert Boulenger, to describe it as “ mythical ” in 1888.

* Félicien Courbet ( 1888 – 1967 ), a Belgian water polo player and breaststroke swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics

Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie ( October 7, 1820 – July 12, 1888 ) was a Belgian astronomer and journalist.

The liberal Julius Hoste Sr. founded the newspaper on 7 June 1888, five days before the Belgian elections.

What became known as the " Belgian Hare Boom ", began with the importation of the first Belgian Hares from England in 1888 and soon after the founding of the first rabbit club in America, the American Belgian Hare Association.

Henri Jean Augustin de Braekeleer ( 11 June 1840 – 20 July 1888 ), Belgian painter.

* Edmond Cabel ( 1832 – 1888 ), Belgian opera tenor, brother of Marie

* 1888 – Eugene O ' Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1953 )

Eugene Gladstone O ' Neill ( October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953 ) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature.

A commemorative plaque is posted on the outside wall with the inscription " Eugene O ' Neill, October 16, 1888 ~ November 27, 1953 America's greatest playwright was born on this site then called Barrett Hotel, Presented by Circle in the Square.

Founded in 1888, railroad engineer Eugene Cornwall named the city for his hometown of Irvington, New York.

* Eugene O ' Neill ( 1888 – 1953 ), playwright.

** Eugene O ' Neill, playwright ( born 1888 )

Previously the word praxiology, with the meaning Espinas gave to it, was used by Tadeusz Kotarbiński ( in 1923 ) and some time later by several economists, such as the Ukrainian, Eugene Slutsky ( 1926 ) in his attempt to base economics on a theory of action, the Austrian Ludwig von Mises ( 1933 ), the Russian, Nikolai Bukharin ( 1888 – 1938 ) during the Second International Congress of History of Science and Technology in London ( in 1931 ), and the Pole, Oscar Lange ( 1904 – 1965 ) in 1959, and later.

In the 1900s, Jack London ( 1876 – 1916 ), Theodore Dreiser ( 1871 – 1945 ), Sherwood Anderson ( 1876 – 1941 ), Eugene O ' Neill ( 1888 – 1953 ), Clifford Odets ( 1906 – 1963 ), T. S. Eliot ( 1888 – 1965 ), John Dos Passos ( 1896 – 1970 ), Francis Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896 – 1940 ), and Henry Louis Mencken ( 1880 – 1956 ).

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

Edouard van Beneden and Theodor Boveri made the first observation and identification of centrioles in 1883 and 1888 respectively, while the pattern of centriole replication was first worked out independently by Etienne de Harven and Joseph G. Gall circa 1950

* 1888 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter ( d. 1978 )

* 1888 – The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.

* 1888 – Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish writer ( d. 1963 )

* 1888 – Vera de Bosset, Russian artist, wife of Igor Stravinsky ( d. 1982 )

Seeking help from a physicist, on March 14, 1888, he wrote to Otto Lehmann, at that time a < i lang =" de "> Privatdozent </ i > in Aachen.

* 1888 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector and museum director ( d. 1964 )

In the period from February 1888 and until 1891, a detailed analysis of photoeffect was performed by Aleksandr Stoletov with results published in 6 works ; four of them in Comptes Rendus, one review in Physikalische Revue ( translated from Russian ), and the last work in Journal de Physique.

The sport spread fast between the skilful gauchos and several clubs opened in the following years in the towns of Venado Tuerto, Cañada de Gómez, Quilmes, Flores and later ( 1888 ) Hurlingham.

The phonograph cylinder recordings of Handel's choral music made on June 29, 1888 at The Crystal Palace in London were thought to be the oldest known surviving musical recordings, until the recent playback by a group of American historians of a waveform of " Au Clair de la Lune ", recorded on a phonautograph on April 9, 1860.

* Les filles de Catulle Mendès ( 1888 )

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** Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter ( b. 1888 )

Athletics became codified and standardised via the English AAA and other general sports organisations in the late 19th century, such as the Amateur Athletic Union ( founded in the US in 1888 ) and the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques ( founded in France in 1889 ).

The Museum of Natural History of Toulon and the Var ( Musée d ' histoire naturelle de Toulon et du Var ) was founded in 1888, has a large collection of displays about dinosaurs, birds, mammals, and minerals, mostly from the region.

Heinrich Anton de Bary ( 26 January 1831 – 19 January 1888 ) was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist ( fungal systematics and physiology ).

* Charles du Bois de Vroylande ( 1887 – 1888 )

* Etudes de psychologie expérimentale ( 1888 ).

* The main focus point of the city is the Place de la Comédie, with the Opera Comédie built in 1888.

Dukas won several prizes, including the second place in the Conservatoire's most prestigious award, the Prix de Rome, for his cantata Velléda in 1888.

This event is commemorated in The Burghers of Calais ( Les Bourgeois de Calais ), one of the most famous sculptures by Auguste Rodin, erected in the city in 1888.

* Nuno Maria José Caetano Álvares Pereira de Melo ( 1888 – 1935 ), 9th duke of Cadaval

In 1888 she won the Prix Bordin of the French Academy of Science, for her work on the question: " Mémoire sur un cas particulier du problème de le rotation d ' un corps pesant autour d ' un point fixe, où l ' intégration s ' effectue à l ' aide des fonctions ultraelliptiques du temps ".