1888 Timeline

Our two minute film is set in 1888, so I thought I would explore what historical and social events happened in 1888 which has effected today's society. I thought that if I researched this time period it would give me a border outlook of 1888. Also, Jack the Ripper and his victims are mentioned in the timeline, which shows that it was a significant event in that time period and as it is a worldwide timeline the case was international. The timeline contains when the football league started, Brazil abolishes slavery and the first African-American nominated for US president.

January 1888:

Tuesday 03:
The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
Tuesday 24:
Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon.
Friday 27:
In Washington, DC the National Geographic Society is founded.

March 1888:

Friday 02:
The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
Sunday 11:
The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
Thursday 22:
The Football League is formed.

April 1888:

Wednesday 11:
The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.

May 1888:

Sunday 13:
With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.

June 1888:

Sunday 03:
The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
Saturday 23:
Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.

August 1888:

Tuesday 21:
The first successful adding machine in the United States was patented by William Seward Burroughs.
Friday 31:
Mary Ann Nicholls is murdered. She is perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims

September 1888:

Tuesday 04:
George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
Thursday 06:
a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
Saturday 08:
In England the first six Football League matches ever are played.
Tuesday 11:
Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day was chosen.
Sunday 30:
Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

October 1888:

Tuesday 09:
The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
Wednesday 17:
Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).

November 1888:

Tuesday 06:
U.S. presidential election, 1888: Democrat incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the overall popular vote, but is voted out of office because he loses in the Electoral College to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.
Friday 09:
Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.

December 1888:

Saturday 08:
Bulgaria's National Assembly adopts an Act on establishing a higher school in Sofia.
Sunday 09:
Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department