* 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.

* 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.

* 1888: Richard Strauss ' symphonic poem Don Juan

* 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.

Magnetic recording was proposed as early as 1888 by Oberlin Smith, who published 1888-09-08 in The Electrical World as " Some possible forms of phonograph ".

Ezekiel Stone Wiggins, known as the Ottawa Prophet, proposed that the cause of a Yellow fever epidemic in Jacksonville, Florida in 1888 was astronomic.

This may have been the reason Tsar Alexander III personally crossed off Boris Godunov from the list of proposed pieces for the Imperial Opera in 1888.

Before he left the United States in March 1888, Chamberlain proposed to Mary, describing her as ' one of the brightest and most intelligent girls I have yet met '.

The first petition to incorporate, signed by 33 male residents of the proposed area of incorporation, was presented to the Stearns county Board of Commissioners on November 30, 1888.

When he died on April 2, 1888, Clemson left a cash endowment of $ 80, 000 and the 814 acre Calhoun estate called Fort Hill to a board of lifetime trustees for the establishment of the proposed agricultural college.

Raphaël Blanchard, in 1888, proposed the name Lamblia intestinalis, after Lambl.

Under the Local Government Bill of 1888, which proposed the introduction of elected county councils, the Isle was to form part of Cambridgeshire.

In 1888, he published The Great Cryptogram in which he proposed that Shakespeare's plays had been written by Francis Bacon, an idea that was popular during the late 19th and early 20th century.

In 1888 at the national meeting in Meridian, Mississippi a merger between the Wheel and the Farmers ' Alliance was proposed.

On 1 April 1894, with the proposed extension to Oxford still intended, the O & AT exercised a clause of the 1888 Act and took over the Wotton Tramway.

Helena Blavatsky proposed in her Secret Doctrine ( 1888 ) that it was Homer before Plato who first wrote of Atlantis.

The State Senator who proposed the bill, State Senator Solomon Comstock, donated and appropriated the funds that would go to form the campus which opened in 1888.

The subsequent report completed in 1890 by the Neutrality Committee of 1888 ()— with Axel Rappe as one of its members — suggested that a credible neutrality required an increased defence of the north-eastern border and proposed a budget of 1. 3 million Swedish kronor, corresponding in today's money to around US $ 11 million ( as of 2011 ), for the construction of permanent fortifications in Boden.

1888 map of Boston, with the proposed line in orange

He was commissioned by the French army to build a proposed railroad in Vietnam, from the Chinese frontier to the Gulf of Tonkin, and arrived in Asia to lead railroad construction in the fall of 1888.

Verdi had proposed this collaboration in a letter from 17 November 1868, four days after Rossini's death, to his publisher at Casa Ricordi, Tito Ricordi ( 1811 – 1888 ).

According to author Phillip Sugden in The Complete History of Jack the Ripper, the conjecture that the murders were committed by the same hand originated in October, 1888, when an editor with the Atlanta Constitution proposed the conjecture following the murders of Stride and Eddowes by Jack the Ripper.

He first proposed Chicago, Illinois, but when this didn ’ t generate significant interest, in 1888 he proposed Lincoln, Nebraska, and there the car would be named the " City of Lincoln ".