In 1888, Patrick Garrett ( known as the Sheriff who had shot Billy the Kid ) along with promoter Charles Greene, joined forces with Eddy to design and build a system of canals and flumes to divert water to their ranches and properties.

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 ).

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 ).

Amundsen had hidden a lifelong desire inspired by Fridtjof Nansen's crossing of Greenland in 1888 and the doomed Franklin expedition.

Joined Fridtjof Nansen across Greenland in 1888 and captain on the Fram on the polar drift in 1893 – 1896 and the 2nd Fram expedition in 1898 – 1902.

In 1888, the Russian explorer Nicholay Przhevalsky died in Karakol of typhoid, while preparing for an expedition to Tibet, the city was renamed Przhevalsk in his honor.

His other works include a drama in verse, The House of Ravensburg ( 1877 ), an epic on David Livingstone's expedition in Africa, a Life of Byron ( 1890, Great Writers series ), an edition of Edmund Spenser's poems, a selection of Thomas Otway's plays ( 1888 ) for the Mermaid series, and critical papers on literature and philosophy.

In 1888, Richmond took part in a United States Geological Survey expedition to Montana.

Sverdrup joined Fridtjof Nansen's expedition of 1888 across Greenland.

* Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Stefanie: a narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's exploring & hunting expedition in Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888, translated by Nancy Bell.

In summer 1913 the team crossed the inland ice, the four expedition participants covering a distance twice as long as Fridtjof Nansen's southern Greenland crossing in 1888.

The Department of Mines sent a geological expedition to the area south of Ussuriysk, working there from 1888 to 1893.

The site was excavated in 1888, 1890, 1890 – 91, 1894 and 1902 by a German Oriental Society expedition led by Felix von Luschan and Robert Koldewey.

David Bras Francisco ( 22 February 1841 – 29 April 1888 ) was a member of the La Grange expedition of 1864, which searched for three men missing in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

By the 1890s there was a public school on Parkes Road ( now Edensor Road ), a post office ( opened in 1888 ), and a growing community, with an unusual number of Italians, who had arrived in the 1880s after the failure of the Marquis de Rays's expedition to New Ireland.

After John Butler's initial expedition to Wanneroo in 1835, the first permanent European settler was sheep-farmer Bernard Clarkson, who first acquired a pastoral lease in 1888 of 13, 000 acres in the areas comprising modern-day Mindarie, Clarkson, Quinns Rocks and Merriwa.

The earliest tours date back to 1888, when a 21-man squad visited Australia and New Zealand.

Five years later two important overseas tours took place ; a British Isles team visited Australia and New Zealand — although a private venture, it laid the foundations for future British and Irish Lions tours ; and the 1888 New Zealand Native team brought the first overseas team to British spectators.

Many considered the next team to leave Australia, that of 1888, was considered by many to be worst ever to do so.

The first ever test series not to involve Australia occurred in 1888 / 9, as an understrength England side toured South Africa.

A further tour, by the Chicago club with the addition of various All-Stars in the winter of 1888 – 89, took the game to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and the south Pacific Islands.

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

One of the oldest doll hospitals was established in Lisbon, Portugal in 1830, and another in Melbourne, reputedly the first such establishment in Australia, was founded in 1888.

* The 1888 British Isles tour of New Zealand and Australia sees the first overseas touring rugby team from Britain.

File: BendigoShamrockHotel. JPG | Shamrock Hotel ( 1888 ), Bendigo, Australia.

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.

In the 1880s, the building hosted two major International Exhibitions ; The Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880 and the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition in 1888 to celebrate a century of European settlement in Australia.

In 1888 it became the first town in Australia to install electric street lighting.

In 1888 Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia became the first location in Australia to have electric street lighting, giving the city the title of " First City of Light ".

This was despite the fact that the English Rugby Football Union ( RFU ) was allowing other players to be paid, such as the 1888 British Isles team that toured Australia, and the account of Harry Hamill of his payments to represent New South Wales ( NSW ) against in 1904.

James Hardie immigrated to Australia in 1888 from Linlithgow, Scotland, and created a business importing oils and animal hides.

After the 1888 season, Tener accompanied the team on a world tour of Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, France, Italy and England.

In 1888 an English team visited Australasia, playing rugby rules in Queensland, New South Wales and New Zealand, and Australian rules football in Victoria and South Australia.

Louis Buvelot ( 3 March 1814 – 30 May 1888 ), born Abram-Louis Buvelot, was a Swiss-born landscape painter who emigrated to Australia in 1865 and influenced the Heidelberg School of painters.

A narrow gauge railway was built by South Australian Railways from Port Pirie, South Australia to Broken Hill, in 1888 to serve its silver and lead mine, which was becoming the largest and richest of its kind in the world.

Histories covering Indigenous themes include Watkin Tench ( Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay et Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson ); Roderick J. Flanagan ( The Aborigines of Australia, 1888 ); The Native Tribes of Central Australia by Spencer and Gillen, 1899 ; the diaries of Donald Thompson on the subject of the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land ( c. 1935-1943 ); Alan Moorehead ( The fatal Impact, 1966 ); Geoffrey Blainey ( Triumph of the Nomads, 1975 ); Henry Reynolds ( The Other Side of the Frontier, 1981 ); and Marcia Langton ( First Australians, 2008 ).