The Local Government Act 1888 established a new sort of borough – the county borough.

The new City Chambers initially housed Glasgow Town Council from 1888 to 1895, when it was replaced by Glasgow Corporation.

In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.

Article 53 of the new Empire's constitution recognised the existence of the Navy as an independent organisation, but until 1888 it was commanded by army officers and initially adopted the same regulations as the Prussian army.

In 1888 he joined the Verein für Socialpolitik, a new professional association of German economists affiliated with the historical school, who saw the role of economics primarily as finding solutions to the social problems of the age and who pioneered large scale statistical studies of economic issues.

Nikolai Bukharin was born on September 27 ( October 9, new style ), 1888 in Moscow.

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 ().

In 1888, during the construction of the new building, workers discovered the dismembered torso of a female ; the case, known as the " Whitehall Mystery ", has never been solved.

The first Chief Justice commissioned using the new title was Melville Fuller in 1888.

Carte's assistant, Helen Lenoir, who became his wife in 1888, made fifteen visits to America in the 1880s and 1890s to promote Carte's interests, superintending arrangements for American productions and tours of each of the new Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

On April 30, 1888, Itō resigned as prime minister, but headed the new Privy Council to maintain power behind-the-scenes.

The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars ( abbreviated as NGC ) is a well-known catalogue of deep sky objects in astronomy compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888, as a new version of John Herschel's Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars.

After Bové's lines were demolished, new large buildings were erected between 1888 – 1893, also in the pseudo-Russian style: upper lines ( Gum department store ) and middle lines.

The new influences from Ritter resulted in what is widely regarded as Strauss's first piece to show his mature personality, the tone poem Don Juan ( 1888 ), which displays a new kind of virtuosity in its bravura orchestral manner.

A new gatehouse was built in 1888.

* 1888 Cattleman R. L. Rhomberg settles in the new county and names a settlement Clairemont for his daughter, Claire.

The county seat was originally Hoskins, but changed in 1888 after everything in Hoskins but the school was moved three miles east to the new Soo Line Railroad townsite of Ashley.

On June 9, 1888, Grant County was again established as a Kansas county, with original county boundaries, with the first officers of the new Grant County being sworn in on June 18, 1888.

A new courthouse was built in 1888 and the building still survives in downtown Paragould.

A Methodist-Episcopalian church was built in 1888 across from the new school just north-west of Central Avenue.

Vaca Valley Railroad officials gave the name Esperanza (" hope " in Spanish ) to their new townsite in 1888, but when the post office was established in 1890 the name had to be changed because there was already an Esperanza in Tulare County.

Also in 1888, the first city attorney ( James H. Connelly ) was appointed at a salary of $ 35 per year, and many new businesses were added.

* Coke R. Stevenson ( 1888 – 1975 ), Governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947

After the Lord Stanley of Preston was appointed by Queen Victoria as Governor General of Canada on June 11, 1888, he and his family became highly enthusiastic about ice hockey.

* Governor Coke Stevenson ( 1888 – 1975 ) Born in Mason County

* Henry Lloyd ( February 21, 1852 – December 30, 1920 ), 40th Governor of Maryland ( 1885 to 1888 ); lived in Dorchester County and Cambridge

Brown ( 1888 – 1975 ), state Speaker of the House Solomon Blatt, Sr. ( 1895 – 1986 ), and Governor Joseph E. Harley ( 1880 – 1942 ).

* William Thomas Hamilton ( 1820 – 1888 ), Governor of Maryland ( 1880 – 1884 )

In 1888, Archibald McLelan was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

On September 27, 1888 the park was officially opened, where it was named after Lord Stanley, Governor General of Canada at the time.

Eagle was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1888, and was reelected for a second term in 1890.

General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron GCB ( 20 May 1808 – 8 June 1888 ) was a British Army officer who fought in the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ), commanded troops during part of the New Zealand Land Wars and was Governor of the Royal Military College Sandhurst from 1868 to 1875.

* Thomas L. Young ( 1832 – 1888 ), American politician ; 33rd Governor of Ohio

In 1857 he was appointed Governor of the Isle of Wight, which he remained until 1888.

* March 5 – Georges Vanier, soldier, diplomat and Governor General of Canada ( b. 1888 )

* June 12-John Keiller MacKay, soldier, jurist and 19th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario ( b. 1888 )

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

In 1888, Daniels married Addie Worth Bagley, the granddaughter of former Governor Jonathan Worth.

When his successor David Howard Harrison proved unable to command a parliamentary majority, Greenway was asked by the Lieutenant Governor to form a new administration in January 1888.

Governor Ramón Lista decided to move the Territorial Capital from Puerto Santa Cruz to Río Gallegos in 1888 ; official ratification of this decision came on 19 May 1904.

He was Governor from 1885 to 1891, succeeding to the office upon Cleveland's resignation and re-elected in 1885 and 1888.

John Thompson Hoffman ( 10 January 182824 March 1888 ) was the 23rd Governor of New York ( 1869 – 1872 ).

He was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor General of Canada, his father, between 1888 and 1891 and fought in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1900.

He twice ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Massachusetts in 1888 and 1889, defeated by Oliver Ames and John Quincy Adams Brackett.

Coke Robert Stevenson ( March 20, 1888 – June 28, 1975 ) was the 35th Governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947.