* 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 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.

* 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.

* T. cantabrigiensis ( nomen dubium ) Lydekker, 1888 ( based on BMNH R. 496, a dentary tooth from the late Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand, Cambridgeshire, England, regarded as a dubious early hadrosaurid )

Note that the ICZN later ruled that non-standard Latin characters such as ü would not be allowed in scientific names, and the spelling münsteri was emended to muensteri by Richard Lydekker in 1888.

It was synonymised to Ornithopsis humerocristatus by Richard Lydekker in 1888 and to Pelorosaurus by Friedrich von Huene in 1909.

It was described by Hulke in 1880 as Iguanodon prestwichii, and then placed in its own genus Cumnoria by Seeley in 1888, but was soon sunk into Camptosaurus by Lydekker in 1889.

In 1888, Richard Lydekker selected the knee joint as the lectotype of Scelidosaurus.

Accordingly, Truro, St Albans, Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne and Wakefield were all officially designated as cities between 1877 and 1888.

The town was officially designated a village on March 6, 1888.

The militia was not designated as the official National Guard of Washington until January 1888, and as such the armed forces available to Semple at the time of the Roslyn strikes were still poorly trained and poorly equipped.

He graduated in 1885 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and after field experience in Colorado and other states was appointed on October 2, 1888, as Assistant Hydraulic Engineer of the United States Geological Survey, being the first aide designated under Major John Wesley Powell to investigate the extent to which the arid regions of the United States might be reclaimed by irrigation.

* 1843 Coventry College of Design: becomes Coventry School of Art, 1852, and transfers science classes to the Technical Institute in 1888, becomes Municipal School of Art in 1902, and is designated College of Art in 1954.

When the massive project was finished, Hunter Island was connected to nearby Twin Island and Rodman's Neck, becoming part of Pelham Bay Park, originally designated parkland in 1888.

However, the most successful system of this type was the one introduced by John Robert Gregg in 1888, who had studied not only the geometric English systems, but also the German Stolze stenography, a script shorthand.

* Douglas Crawford McMurtrie ( 1888 – 1944 ), type designer.

Though the type species Desmostylus hesperus was originally classified from a few teeth and vertebrae as a sirenian by Marsh in 1888, doubts arose a decade later when more complete fossils were discovered in Japan.

In 1888, Tesla's work came to the attention of George Westinghouse, who owned a patent for a type of transformer that could deal with high power and was easy to make.

Among the noted British creations of this type were Nawab Hashim Ali Khan ( 1858 – 1940 ), Nawab Khwaja Abdul Ghani ( 1813 – 1896 ), Nawbab Abdool Luteef ( 1828 – 1893 ), Nawab Faizunnesa Choudhurani ( 1834 – 1904 ), Nawab Ali Chowdhury ( 1863 – 1929 ), Nawbab Syed Shamsul Huda ( 1862 – 1922 ) and Nawbab Sirajul Islam ( 1848 – 1923 ), Nawab Alam yar jung Bahadur, M. A, Madras, B. A., B. C. L., Barr-At-Law ( 1888 – 1975 ).

A gallows of this type was used for the execution of Robert Neil at Toronto ’ s Don Jail on February 29, 1888:

* August 6-Thomas Russell Crampton, English engineer and designer of the Crampton locomotive type as well as a tunnel boring machine for the Channel Tunnel ( d. 1888 ).

Le Nu au Salon ( 1888 – 1892 ), in five volumes, with numerous illustrations, was followed by other volumes of the same type.

The 4-4-2 or Atlantic type made its first appearance in 1888 in the United States of America.

Aachenosaurus was found and named by the scientist ( and abbé ) Gerard Smets, on October 31, 1888, who named the type species Aachenosaurus multidens.

f .) Pfitzer 1888 ( Ecuador ; Venezuela ): type species