The first result of Heidenstam's long sojourn abroad was a volume of poems, Pilgrimage And Wander-Years ( Vallfart och Vandringsar ), published in 1888.

* 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.

* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

* Alexander I of Yugoslavia ( 1888 – 1934 ), first king of Yugoslavia

* 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.

* 1888 – The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.

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.

Conservation, as a distinct field of study, initially developed in Germany, when in 1888 Friedrich Rathgen became the first chemist to be employed by a Museum, the Koniglichen Museen, Berlin ( Royal Museums of Berlin ).

In 1888, the promoter of the first expedition to Australia and New Zealand, Arthur Shrewsbury, demanded " something that would be good material and yet take them by storm out here ".

Shaw & Shrewsbury Team, 1888, The first British or Irish touring rugby team, a private-enterprise trip to Australia and New Zealand

In 1899 the British Isles touring side returned to Australia for the first time since the unofficial tour of 1888.

In 1888, Scotsman John Boyd Dunlop introduced the first practical pneumatic tire, which soon became universal.

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.

Bundaberg rum was first produced in 1888, production ceased from 1907 to 1914 and from 1936 to 1939 after fires, the second of which caused rum from the factory to spill into the nearby Burnett River.

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

The first census covering the unified state took place in 1888.

Edouard van Beneden and Theodor Boveri made the first observation and identification of centrioles in 1883 and 1888 respectively, while the pattern of centriole replication was first worked out independently by Etienne de Harven and Joseph G. Gall circa 1950

The first organized Congolese troops, known as the ( FP ), were created in 1888 when King Leopold II of Belgium, who held the Congo Free State as his private property, ordered his Secretary of the Interior to create military and police forces for the state.

Hilbert's first work on invariant functions led him to the demonstration in 1888 of his famous finiteness theorem.

Detroit's first major league entry was the Detroit Wolverines, a member of the National League from 1881 through 1888.

Incidentally, the first public performance of the poem was on August 14, 1888, by actor De Wolf Hopper, on Thayer's 25th birthday.

However, the first moving picture was shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince in 1888 and the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890.

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 ).

The machine was tested at Bourke in 1888 on 184, 000 sheep to eventually revolutionise the shearing industry.

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

The earliest form is Scepeshefde Regis as mentioned in the Domesday Book, which means "( King's ) hill where sheep graze ", but since then there have been many changes until the present form, Shepshed, was adopted in 1888.

In 1888 – 1889, Spalding took a group of Major League players around the world to promote baseball and Spalding sporting goods.

Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward ( 1888 ) envisions the world of 2000 as interlinked with tubes for delivering goods, while Michel Verne's An Express of the Future ( 1888 ) questions the sensibility of a transatlantic pneumatic subway.

By 1888, about 50 millionaires lived in Helena, more per capita than any city in the world.

On July 4, 1888, the first rodeo in Texas and perhaps the world was held on the Main Street of Canadian, Texas.

Pitman shorthand is still in widespread use, but in the U. S. and some other parts of the world it has been largely superseded by Gregg shorthand, which was first published in 1888 by John Robert Gregg.

In 1888 he wrote that Macaulay " had done more than any writer in the literature of the world for the propagation of the Liberal faith, and he was not only the greatest, but the most representative, Englishman then living ".

He and Bailey split up again in 1885, but came back together in 1888 with the " Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show On Earth ," later " Barnum & Bailey Circus ," which toured the world.

Most notably from 1888 to 1889 he co-operated with the American Chess Congress in a project to define rules governing the conduct of future world championships.

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera ( 19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942 ) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.

In 1888, Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact for the first time.

In May 1888, the observatory was turned over to the Regents of the University of California, and it became the first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory in the world.

1888 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

The team went on to become the " world colored champions " of 1887 and 1888, and spawned imitators.

By 1888, the company had established offices around the world, including three in Australia and one in Auckland, New Zealand, and in 1890, the company sold over 3. 25 million tickets.

Waterbury Watch started out very successfully in its early days, employing hundreds of women for their " slender fingers " and " delicate manipulation ," having become the largest volume producer of watches in the world by 1888.

He attended the town's world famous university and, in 1888, at the age of 25, he was awarded a Ph. D. by the University of Heidelberg.

With the modern passing game believed to have been innovated in London and with England being home to the oldest football clubs in the world dating from at least 1857, the world's oldest football trophy, the Youdan Cup, the first national competition, the FA Cup founded in 1871, and the first ever association football league ( 1888 ) as well as England having the first national football team that hosted the world's first ever international football match, a 1-1 draw with Scotland on 5 March 1870 at The Oval in London, England is considered the home of the game of football.

The Football League, established in 1888 by Aston Villa director William McGregor, was the first professional football league in the world.

No American had been world champion since the first champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, became a naturalized American citizen in 1888.

* Cedar Grove is home to the 2nd tree experimentation farm in the U. S. Trees from around the world were planted in the grove by John Bidwell in 1888.

At the time of his death in 1893 ( he had handed over the business to his sons, Charles, Louis and John Hay Wilson in 1888 ) the firm employed 40 staff and was one of the largest publishers of photographic prints in the world, competing with James Valentine, who was also a prolific photographer, with a large company in Dundee.

The Cathedral was commissioned by late Cardinal O ' Donnell, then Bishop of Raphoe, who in 1888 aged 32 became the youngest bishop in the world at that time.

Depending on the modern authority, Sullivan was first considered world heavyweight champion either in 1888 when he fought Charley Mitchell in France, or the following year when he knocked out Jake Kilrain in round 75 of a scheduled 80-round bout.

In 1888, when Hawaii was still a monarchy, King Kalākaua commissioned a magazine under royal charter to be Hawaii's ambassador to the world.