As he was bedridden at the end of his life, Alcott's daughter Louisa May came to visit him at Louisburg on March 1, 1888.

During the Acropolis excavations in Athens, which terminated in 1888, many potsherds of the Mycenaean style were found ; but Olympia had yielded either none, or such as had not been recognized before being thrown away, and the temple site at Delphi produced nothing distinctively Aegean ( in dating ).

" Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 " is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.

Starting from 1888, Lewis M. Norton taught at MIT the first chemical engineering course in the United States.

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.

* 1888 – Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.

IX: an English translation of an Arabic text, published at Rome in 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.

Thayer ’ s last piece, dated June 24, 1888, was a ballad entitled " Casey " (" Casey at the Bat ").

In 1888, Douglass spoke at Claflin College, a black college in Orangeburg, South Carolina and the oldest such institution in the state.

They won the West London Amateur Cup in 1887 and, having shortened the name from Fulham Excelsior to its present form in 1888, they then won the West London League in 1893 at the first attempt.

The Flammarion engraving ( 1888 ) depicts a traveller who arrives at the edge of a flat Earth and sticks his head through the firmament.

He moved to Vienna with his family in 1888, and studied at the Vienna Conservatory ( composition with Robert Fuchs, cello with Ferdinand Hellmesberger and theory ( the counterpoint class ) with Anton Bruckner ), graduating " with excellence " in 1896.

In early 1888, Carver obtained a $ 300 loan at the Bank of Ness City for education.

In 1888, the old emperor William I died at the age of 90.

People gathered in the forest, at the passage of the steamboat “ Roi des Belges ” (“ King of the Belgians ”) in 1888.

Schliemann made a third excavation at Troy in 1882 – 1883, an excavation of Tiryns with Wilhelm Dörpfeld in 1884, a fourth excavation at Troy, also with Dörpfeld ( who emphasized the importance of strata ), in 1888 – 1890.

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.

Keller with Anne Sullivan Macy | Anne Sullivan vacationing at Cape Cod in July 1888

File: Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas 072. jpg | Edgar Degas, Dancers at The Bar, 1888, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C.

* 1888 – The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time.

* 1888 – The poem " Casey at the Bat ", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.

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.

The ANFC ran the Championship of Australia, the first national club competition, which commenced in 1888 and saw clubs from different states compete on an even playing field.

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.

Father Morice, writing about this and other stories he had been told by the Carrier people, posits that there might be " a sort of national tradition among the hyperborean races of America, since even the Eskimo have a story which is evidently the equivalent of it ," proceeding to summarize the account as given by Franz Boas in " The Central Eskimo " ( 1888 ).

The government formally adopted " Kimigayo " as the national anthem in 1888 and had copies of the music and lyrics sent overseas for diplomatic ceremonies.

Camp's Yale teams of 1888, 1891, and 1892 have been recognized as national champions.

Establishing himself as one of Boston's principal Democratic leaders, he was invited to give one of the seconding speeches for Grover Cleveland at the party's 1888 national convention in St. Louis.

In early 1888, it was not clear if the Greenback Party would hold another national convention.

On August 16, 1888, George O. Jones, chairman of the national committee, called a second session of the national convention.

The second session of the national convention met in Cincinnati on September 12, 1888.

William T. Kerr, a resident of Collier Township, Pennsylvania, for a number of years, founded the American Flag Day Association of Western Pennsylvania in 1888, and became that organization's national chairman one year later, serving as such for fifty years.

* in Baden, the " Catholic People's Party ", since 1881 formally linked to the national " Centre Party " and since 1888 adopting the name " Centre Party ".

Croat national identity was adopted by some Bunjevci in the late 19th and early 20th century, especially by the majority of the Bunjevac clergy, notably one of the titular bishops of Kalocsa Ivan Antunović ( 1815 – 1888 ) supported the notion of calling Bunjevci and Šokci with the name Croats.

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.

In 1888 the Macedo-Rumanians obtained an imperial firman granting them the right to set up national churches.

This led to fellowship, the development of state conferences, and an attempted national organization in 1888.

The first description of Bolivia's national flag, together with the significance of these, were first established by the Supreme Decrete of 1888 during the government of President Gregorio Pacheco.

There is some historical use of blue for Democrats and red for Republicans: in the late 19th century and early 20th century, Texas county election boards used colour coding to help Spanish speakers and illiterates identify the parties, however, this system was not applied consistently in Texas and was not picked up on a national level ; for instance, in 1888, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison used maps that coded blue for the Republicans, the color Harrison perceived to represent the Union and " Lincoln's Party " and red for the Democrats.

He also held the national office, being elected to Swedish parliament, from 1888 – 1890 and later became a member of senate.

In 1888 it was discovered in the Spanish national archives.

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.

James Aloysius Farley ( May 30, 1888 – June 9, 1976 ) was one of the first Irish Catholic politicians in American history to achieve success on a national level, serving as Chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and as Postmaster General simultaneously under the first two administrations of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.