In 1888, Scotsman William McGregor a director of Aston Villa, was the main force between meetings held in London and Manchester involving 12 football clubs, with an eye to a league competition.

* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )

* 1815 – John Bosco, Italian priest and educator ( d. 1888 )

The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on his leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not do.

Coca-Cola founders Asa G. Candler and Dr. John S. Pemberton are seen together at Asa G. Candler & Co. pharmacy, 47 Peachtree St., Atlanta in the only extant albumen photograph from 1888.

Inscriptions found at Nippur, where extensive excavations were carried on during 1888 – 1900 by John P Peters and John Henry Haynes, under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, show that Enlil was the head of an extensive pantheon.

Perhaps the first elaborate and systematic exposition was by John Venn, in The Logic of Chance: An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability ( published editions in 1866, 1876, 1888 ).

He published them in two collections, each issued in a tiny edition of 25 copies for his relatives and friends: John Marr ( 1888 ) and Timoleon ( 1891 ).

* John Marr and Other Sailors ( 1888 ) ( poetry collection )

* John Bruce Young ( 1888 – 1952 ), New Zealand baker, policeman, unionist and police commissioner

* 1888 – John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society ( b. 1815 )

* 1831 – John Pemberton, American chemist, inventor of Coca-Cola ( d. 1888 )

* John Brown ( footballer born 1888 ), footballer for Manchester City and Stoke

* John Henry Hobart Brown ( 1831 – 1888 ), Episcopal bishop of Fond du Lac

* John M. Walker ( bishop ) ( 1888 – 1951 ), Episcopal bishop of Atlanta

* Round, John H. ( 1888 ) " Danegeld and the Finance of Domesday ," in Dove, P. E. ( ed ) ( 1888 ) Domesday Studies.

* Madeleine Edison ( 1888 – 1979 ), who married John Eyre Sloane.

His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems ( 1858 ), The Earthly Paradise ( 1868 – 1870 ), A Dream of John Ball ( 1888 ), the utopian News from Nowhere ( 1890 ), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End ( 1896 ).

Volume I ( John Murray, 1888 )

This catalogue was later edited by John Dreyer, supplemented with discoveries by many other 19th century astronomers, and published in 1888 as the New General Catalogue ( abbreviated NGC ) of 7840 deep sky objects.

** John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer ( b. 1888 )

* May 24 – John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State ( b. 1888 )

* August 16 – Saint John Bosco, priest and educator ( d. 1888 )

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* Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Premier of Queensland, Australia, 1888 – 1890

The potter Merric Boyd ( 1888 – 1959 ) established a studio in Murrumbeena and produced his own distinctive style of Art Nouveau ceramics.

There were two other smaller camps nearby Fontana d ' Amore which held British Officers and Villa Orsini which held very senior Allied officers captured during World War Two, including Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd ( 1889 – 1944 ), Major-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart ( 1880 – 1963 ), Brigadier James Hargest ( 1891 – 1944 ), Lieutenant General Sir Philip Neame ( 1888 – 1978 ), General Sir Richard Nugent O ' Connor ( 1889 – 1981 ).

Boyd Dunlop Morehead ( 24 August 1843 – 30 October 1905 ) was premier of Queensland, Australia from November 1888 to June 1890.

* J. C. Dunlop, History of Fiction ( 1888 ), new ed.

In 1888, when John Dunlop re-invented the pneumatic tire for his son's tricycle, the high wheel was made obsolete.

Dunlop was granted a patent in 1888, but two years later was officially informed that it was invalid as Thomson's patent anticipated it.

In 1888 the first mechanised shearing of sheep, in the world, took place at Sir Samuel McCaughey's Dunlop Station, a property located within the Louth district.

In 1888, Australia became the first country in the world have a complete shearing, at Dunlop Station, finished using machines.

* J. C. Dunlop, History of Prose Fiction ( new ed., 1888 ), vol.

John Dunlop Edwards ( 12 June 1860 in Prahran, Victoria – 31 July 1911 in Hawksburn, Victoria ) was an Australian cricketer who played in three Tests in England in 1888.

( The symbol ∈ is a derivation from the Greek letter epsilon, " ε ", introduced by Peano in 1888.

The Scottish Education Department introduced a Leaving Certificate Examination in 1888 to set national standards for secondary education and in 1890 school fees were abolished, creating a state-funded national system of free basic education and common examinations.

The first modern and more precise definition of a vector space was introduced by Peano in 1888 ; by 1900, a theory of linear transformations of finite-dimensional vector spaces had emerged.

Possibly the worst episode occurred in 1888 and succeeding years, as the epizootic rinderpest, introduced into Eritrea by infected cattle, spread southwards reaching ultimately as far as South Africa.

Steven Brust introduced the edition, saying that this translation ( anonymous, originally published in 1888 ) was his favorite.

The term ' luminescence ' was introduced in 1888 by Eilhard Wiedemann.

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.

* Cloisonnism: a short-lived term introduced in 1888 by the art critic Édouard Dujardin, was to promote the work of Louis Anquetin, and was later also applied to contemporary works of his friend Émile Bernard

The introduction of the KODAK camera in 1888 was the first " box " camera to become widely adopted by the public and its design became the archetype for box camera designs introduced by many different manufacturers.

* The Kodak introduced in 1888, the first commercially successful box camera for roll film -- the advertising slogan being You press the button – we do the rest.

The lake is believed to have no indigenous fish, but several species of fish were introduced beginning in 1888 until all fish stocking ended in 1941.

Stoke were one of the twelve founding members of The Football League when it was introduced in 1888.

In 1888 George Eastman introduced the first handheld amateur camera, the Kodak camera.

Eager to marry off her daughter, who already had one child from an earlier relationship, Mrs Shaw soon introduced Spare to her child, Eily Gertrude Shaw ( 1888 –?).

The method developed around 1888 and was introduced in his 1894 book Palmer's Guide to Business Writing.

Between 1881 and 1884, bronze 2, 5 and 20 stotinki, and silver 50 stotinki, 1, 2 and 5 leva were introduced, followed, in 1888, by cupro-nickel 2½, 5, 10 and 20 stotinki.

Results in embryology had been contradictory: in 1888 Wilhelm Roux, who had introduced the experimental manipulation of the embryo to discover the rules of development, performed a series of experiments in which he inserted a hot needle into one of two blastomeres to kill it.

The term was introduced for England and Wales by the Local Government Act 1888, which created county councils for various areas, and called them ' administrative counties ' to distinguish them from the continuing statutory counties.

Frank was introduced to Lucille Selig ( Feb 29, 1888 – April 23, 1957 ) shortly after he arrived in Atlanta.

County Councils were first introduced in England and Wales with full powers from 22 September 1889 as a result of the Local Government Act 1888, taking over administrative functions until then carried out by the unelected Quarter Sessions.

As early as 1888, the German Army ’ s Rifle Testing Commission had introduced in response a completely new turnbolt magazine rifle with a spring-loaded box magazine: the Gewehr 88 " Commission " rifle.

In this capacity he had to carry out the coercive measures introduced by Bismarck in 1887 and 1888, though he largely disapproved of them ; his conciliatory disposition, however, did much to reconcile the Alsace-Lorrainers to German rule.

In 1888, James Salisbury introduced the Salisbury steak as part of his high-meat diet, which limited vegetables, fruit, starches, and fats to one-third of the diet.

The leaving age was raised to 14 in 1883, and a Leaving Certificate Examination was introduced in 1888 to set national standards for secondary education.