He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times — in 1884, 1888, and 1892 — and was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1861 to 1913.

The concept of expanding naval power, inevitably at the cost of not expanding other forces, was opposed by the three successive heads of the German armed forces, Waldersee, Schlieffen and Moltke between 1888 and 1914.

Carte and Lenoir married in 1888, three years after the death of his first wife.

At least one D ' Oyly Carte company, and sometimes as many as three, played Pinafore under Carte's aegis every year between 1878 and 1888, including its first London revival in 1887.

Engel would help Lie to write his most important treatise, Theorie der Transformationsgruppen, published in Leipzig in three volumes from 1888 to 1893.

Henry Bergh ( August 29, 1813 – March 12, 1888 ) founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( ASPCA ) in April, 1866, three days after the first effective legislation against animal cruelty in the United States was passed into law by the New York State Legislature.

* LaFayette L. Patterson ( 1888 – 1987 ), born near Delta, served three terms in the U. S. Congress from 1928 to 1933

All three characters would graduate to their own ten-cent weekly titles within a few years. Old Sleuth Library, 1888.

* Vélléda, cantata for three solo voices and orchestra ( 1888 )

Of the seven rustlers and schoolboys believed to have been responsible, only three were brought to trial in Enterprise, where a jury found them not guilty on September 1, 1888.

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.

In 1888, Scottish-born John Reid founded the first golf course, with just three holes, in the United States, St. Andrew's Golf Club, in Yonkers.

He formed the Ballona Development Company in 1888 to develop the area, but three years later the company went bankrupt.

Upon John's sudden death in 1888, the ranch was divided between the three owning families.

The town suffered through many difficult challenges, but despite burning down and being rebuilt three times in its first fourteen years of existence, it was eventually incorporated in 1888.

Other historic buildings in the approximately three block area include the 1888 Musser Building, and the 1906 Wagner Building.

As of 1888, the town of Sidell had three main industries ( aside from farming ): tile, brick, and ice.

The Knob Noster High School ( KNHS ) was organized in 1888, and at the same time, the requirements to complete a public school education were changed from five years to eight years, including three years of high school.

Elkhorn River -- Wisner is located directly on the border of this tributary of the Platte River, and it has been the source of several momentous events, such as major floods in 1966 and 1994, as well as a barge accident that killed three children in 1888.

By 1888 it had a larger school, three general stores, a drugstore, a sawmill, a dentist and watchmaker, and a Farmers ' Alliance store.

By 1888 three churches were holding services in the settlement.

By 1888, when the post office opened, Godley had a gristmill, three cotton gins, and two dairy-processing plants.

In a formal meeting in 1888, three names were under consideration: North Montezuma, Hammond, and the biblical name, Antioch.

He obtained three doctorates ( in philosophy, canon law and theology ) at the Gregorian University in Rome, and then from 1882 to 1888 was a professor at the seminary in Padua.

Pissarro then spent the next four years, from 1885 to 1888, practicing this more time-consuming and laborious technique, referred to as pointillism.

Eiffel had been working on the project for little more than a year when the company suspended payments of interest on 14 December 1888, and shortly afterwards was put into liquidation.

The first modern and more precise definition of a vector space was introduced by Peano in 1888 ; by 1900, a theory of linear transformations of finite-dimensional vector spaces had emerged.

Mohandas and Kasturba had four more children, all sons: Harilal, born in 1888 ; Manilal, born in 1892 ; Ramdas, born in 1897 ; and Devdas, born in 1900.

* 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.

Because of the quick growth of his business, in 1888 the production was relocated from the cowshed to a more spacious building in Rüsselsheim.

According to Taylor, " The more familiar grenadier took the musketeer's place in a speech of 1888 ".

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, Coubertin founded the Comité pour la Propagation des Exercises Physiques more well known as the Comité Jules Simon.

While the Metropolitans were initially the more successful club, Day and Mutrie began moving star players to the Gothams and the team won its first National League pennant in 1888, as well as a victory over the St. Louis Browns in an early incarnation of the World Series.

; 1888: The serial killer known as Jack the Ripper murders and mutilates five ( and possibly more ) prostitutes on the streets of London.

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

The songwriter Maude Valerie White dedicated her setting of Byron's " So we'll go no more a-roving " to Tree, " in grateful remembrance of 13 July 1888 ".

August Müller in Kiel, Germany, corrected his own severe myopia with a more convenient glass-blown scleral contact lens of his own manufacture in 1888.

Held yearly the Wednesday-Sunday after Labor Day since 1888, it is the oldest continuing county fair in the state of Illinois and is one of the largest antique fairs in the United States, drawing daily crowds of more than 100, 000, with the top attendance days reaching more than 200, 000 fair-goers.

From 1811 to 1888, boatyards produced more than 3, 000 steamboats.

Changes include the reintroduction, above the leaders, of the FT's 1888 motto, “ Without fear and without favour ” and more signposts to FT. com.

The coal boom fueled a flood of money into the area, and nearby Bramwell, incorporated in 1888, boasted itself as the " Millionaires ' Town " because more millionaires per capita lived there than anywhere else in the nation.

In 1903, partly as a result of a dispute with Princeton president Woodrow Wilson, partly due to an offer involving more pay and less teaching, he moved to a professorship of philosophy and psychology at Johns Hopkins University where he re-opened the experimental laboratory that had been founded by G. Stanley Hall in 1884 ( but had closed with Hall's departure to take over the presidency of Clark University in 1888 ).

In 1888, after Slackford became ill, Dwelle entered a more lucrative partnership with Adam Stoll and Louis Adolph, who owned land at Cedar Point, and investors Charles Baetz and Jacob Kuebeler.

1888 marked a turning point in his style as well as his career, with the Mörike, Eichendorff and Goethe sets drawing him away from Schubert's simpler, more diatonic lyricism and into " Wölferl's own howl ".

After Inness settled in Montclair, New Jersey in 1885, and particularly in the last decade of his life, this mystical component manifested in his art through a more abstracted handling of shapes, softened edges, and saturated color ( October, 1886, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ), a profound and dramatic juxtaposition of sky and earth ( Early Autumn, Montclair, 1888, Montclair Art Museum ), an emphasis on the intimate landscape view ( Sunset in the Woods, 1891, Corcoran Gallery of Art ), and an increasingly personal, spontaneous, and often violent handling of paint.