* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

Approximately 12 million Africans were shipped to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade from 1492 to 1888.

Cy Young played for many amateur baseball leagues during his youth, including a " semi-pro " Carrollton team 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.

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”

In February 1888, during a Bulgarian crisis, Bismarck addressed the Reichstag on the dangers of a European war.

* 1888 – The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.

Although Mr. Fulton loved his work and research, it eventually led to his premature death, as he acquired an unknown disease during one of his surgeries in 1888.

The Giants remained a powerhouse during the last half of the 1880s, culminating in their first league pennant in 1888 and another in 1889.

The blossoms depicted were sent weekly to the artist's London studio from the Riviera for four months during the winter of 1887 – 1888.

* 2 March 1888 — The Convention of Constantinople renews the guaranteed right of passage of all ships through the Suez Canal during war and peace ; these rights were already part of the licenses awarded to Lesseps, but are recognized as international law.

His work grew brighter in color, and he developed the unique and highly recognizable style that became fully realized during his stay in Arles in 1888.

Heinrich Hertz ( 1888 ) demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic radiation ( radio waves ) in a series of experiments in Germany during the 1880s.

Roland Garros (; 6 October 1888 – 5 October 1918 ) was an early French aviator and a fighter pilot during World War I.

Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO ( 16 August 1888 — 19 May 1935 ), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916 – 18.

This competition was initially contested by mostly amateur teams but by the end of the 19th century it was dominated by professional teams that were mostly members of the Football League that had been founded in 1888 and expanded during the 1890s.

President Grover Cleveland attended the Sub-Tropical Exposition in the city on February 22, 1888 during his trip to Florida.

Sometime between 1888 and 1905, or perhaps during the picture's theft, the upper brace fell out.

The instrumental composition " Sobre las olas ( Over the Waves )" written by Mexican songwriter Juventino Rosas and first published in 1888 can be heard in the film's score during The Cold-Blooded Penguin segment while Pablo the penguin is sailing to the Galapagos Islands.

A decade before in 1888, the press had sensationalized Jack the Ripper's sexualized murders of prostitutes during his reign of terror in east London.

The Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh lived in Arles in 1888 – 1889 and produced over 300 paintings and drawings during his time there.

Friedrich Wilhelm " F. W ." Murnau ( born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe ; December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931 ) was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a prominent figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s.

Ahmed Asım Bey's predecessor was his son ; Mehmed Nebil Bey ( Born in Istanbul, 1888 ) who also served as a governor during Ottoman Empire in Syria.

* Charles G. Dahlgren ( 1811 – 1888 ), Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War

Eiffel Tower under construction in July 1888.

Nauvoo was founded in 1888, during the construction of the Northern Alabama Railway, and was formerly a center of coal mining.

The newly named region-not yet incorporated-received a boost with the construction of the Peninsula Railroad Corridor in 1863, and the addition, of a station at San Carlos in 1888.

The town site traces its roots to the construction of a railroad lines through the San Joaquin Valley, by 1888 a line passed through the area.

A county seat war ensued between the two communities, lasting until La Crosse was declared the permanent county seat and the construction of the county courthouse in 1888.

When the St. Louis Southwestern Railway reached the area in 1888, the residents renamed the town Murphy, in honor of William Murphy, who provided land for the tracks and the construction of a depot.

In the spring of 1888, the Adams and Butt families remained in Verdure while the rest of the settlers moved to North Montezuma and began construction of the town.

According to the NP's construction records at the University of Montana's K. Ross Toole Archives, the primary contractors were banker Horace C. Henry of Seattle, Washington, and long-time railroad contractor Nelson Bennett of Tacoma, Washington, the NP's prime contractor for Stampede Tunnel, which he completed in 1888.

In 1888 he did his first sculptures of Beethoven, producing authoritative work with an emphasis on order, the spirit of geometry, construction and invention.

The rail construction started in 1888 and ended in 1892.

Hamilton was Earth's largest refracting telescope during the period from when it saw first light on January 3, 1888, until the construction of Yerkes in 1897.

The construction of the railway linking the village of Zermatt from the town of Visp started in 1888.

Subdivision followed the construction of Botany Road in 1875 and a municipality known as North Botany was formed in 1888.

Sokal ' sky: Russkaya narodnaya muzïka, Velikorusskaya i Malorusskaya, v yey stroyeni melodicheskom i ritmicheskom folk music, Great Russian and Little Russian in its melodic and rhythmic construction ( Khar ' kiv, 1888 ; Ukrainian trans., 2 / 1959 )

The project dates back to 1861, but in 1888 is entered into an agreement with Southern Railways Company for the construction of the line.

The War Department building was replaced in 1888 by construction of a new building, the State, War, and Navy Building ( now the Old Executive Office Building ), built in the same location as its predecessor.

In 1887 one Mr. E. C. Webster began construction of a hotel on the southeast corner of Raymond Avenue and Kansas Street ( 1929 Green St .) When he was unable to complete the job, a newcomer to the area, Colonel G. G. Green, took over the construction and finished the Green Hotel, which opened in 1888.

The first ( and most iconic ) building on campus, DuBourg Hall, began construction in 1888, and the college moved to its new location in 1889.

Rising to president in 1888, he is most famous for overseeing the major construction of the first Canadian transcontinental Railway.

In Jesmond he gave the land from the Jesmond Towers estate and £ 30, 000 for the construction of the art nouveau St George's church ( 1888 ).

When the new Flinders Street Viaduct, connecting Flinders Street and Spencer Street stations, was in its final stages of construction between December 1888 and May 1891, the two suburban lines allowed freight trains to bypass the construction site.

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.