1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). In Germany, 1888 is known as the 1888 Year of Three Emperors. Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1888 - Events. January 3 - 91cm telescope first used at Lick Observatory January 12 - Blizzards in Dakota and Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska and Texas - 235 dead, many of which were children on their way home from school January 24 - Jacob L. ...

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1888 in rail transport - February events. February 24 - Grand Trunk Railway acquires the Northern and Northwestern Railway[1] 1888 in rail transport - April events. April 1 - The Old Colony Railroad leases the Boston and Providence Railroad for a period of 99 years. 1888 in rail transport - June events. June 15 - The first train to Casper, Wyoming, operating on the C ...

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England finished second in the British Home Championship, which was won by Scotland. * England score given first Key H = Home match BHC = British Home Championship ...

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U.S. presidential election 1888 - Republican Party nomination. At the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Indiana's Benjamin Harrison won nomination receiving 544 delegate votes, defeating John Sherman (who received 249 delegates), Russell A. Alger (142) and Walter Q. Gresham (123). New York politician and financier Levi Morton was the party's Vice Presidential choice, receiving 592 delegate votes to beat William Walter Phelps (119 delegates) and William O. Bradley (103). U.S. p ...

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U.S. presidential election 1888 - Campaign. Cleveland set the main issue of the campaign when he proposed a dramatic reduction in tariffs in his annual message to Congress in December 1887. At the time, the policy of free trade was most strongly promoted by the British empire, and so any political candidate who ran on free trade instantly was under threat of being labelled pro-British and thereby losing the swing Irish-American voting bloc. Cleveland neatly neutralized this threat by pursuing punitive action against Canada (which was stil ...

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Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the United States (1889-1893). Benjamin Harrison - Biography. A grandson of President William Henry Harrison, Benjamin was born at 8:57 pm, on Tuesday August 20, 1833 in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio to John Scott Harrison (later a U.S. Congressman from Ohio) and Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin. He attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he was a member of the fraternity Phi Delta Theta, (later in life, he joined another frat ...

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A new competition, The Football League, started this season. The Football League was open to clubs all over the United Kingdom, but first twelve entrants (Accrington, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Burnley, Derby County, Everton, Notts County, Preston North End, Stoke (now Stoke City), West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers) were all from the Midlands or North of England (in later years the competition became the de facto English league, though some clubs from outside England still compete in it). Each club in the ...

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Anton Mauve (1838-1888) was a Dutch "realist" painter whose work very early on influenced Vincent van Gogh. Most of his work tends to focus on shepherding and herding of sheep of peasants working in the fields. Examples of his work include Changing Pasture (ca. 1880s) and Entering the Fold (ca. 1885-1888). Other related archives1838, 1888, Vincent van Gogh

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"Casey at the Bat" (subtitled "A Ballad of the Republic") is a poem on the subject of baseball, written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. It was first published in the San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, but was popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances; Hopper gave the poem's first stage recitation on August 14, 1888 at New York's Wallack Theatre in the presence of the Chicago and New York baseball teams, the White Stockings and the G ...

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Wilhelm I of Germany ( March 22, 1797 – March 9, 1888), German Emperor (Kaiser), ruled January 18, 1871 – 9 March 1888 and King of Prussia, ruled 2 January 1861 – 9 March 1888. His full name was Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig. Some English-language biographies anglicize his name as William I or, in full, William Frederick Louis. Wilhelm I of Germany - Early Life and Military Career. As second son of Friedrich Wilhelm III Wilhelm had no expectations to ascend to the throne and thus he received only li ...

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County councils were established for Administrative counties. These were based on the areas used by Quarter Sessions courts, much of whose administrative authority was taken over by the county councils. Where towns which were urban sanitary districts lay across county boundaries, the whole town was included in the administrative county in which the largest population lay in the 1881 census. Examples of towns affected were Banbury (Oxfordshire/Northamptonshire), Tamworth (Staf ...

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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 – December 31, 1877) was a French painter. Gustave Courbet - Realism. Best known as an innovator in Realism (and credited with coining the term), and a landscape and seascape painter, his scenes are not romantic or idealized as was customary style at the time. Rather, he portrayed dynamic scenery, subject to continuous and progressive change. Courbet believed the Realist artist's mission was the pursuit of truth which would help erase social contradictions and ...

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Consols is a British government bond (gilt), dating originally from the 18th century. In 1752, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister Sir Henry Pelham converted all outstanding issues of redeemable government stock into one bond, Consolidated 3.5% Annuities, in order to reduce the coupon rate paid on the government debt. In 1757, the coupon rate on the stock was reduced to 3%, leaving the stock as Consolidated 3% Annuities. The coupon rate remained at 3% until 1888. In 1888, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George J ...

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Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) (better referred to by its acronym CST) - is a historic railway station on Mumbai suburban railway. It is a magnificent and ethereal building built in 1888 in the Gothic style of architecture and serving as the headquarters of the Central Railways in India, this is one of the busiest stations in India. On July 2, 2004 the station was nominat ...

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Charley Pemberton (1854–1894) was the son of John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola. Charley suffered from alcoholism and was considered a disappointment by his father. In 1888, Charley returned to Atlanta from Louisville, Kentucky and demanded a stake in his father's business, claiming that his father had once promised him the rights to the formula. John Pemberton corroborated his son's story, and Charley was a ...

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Christopher Gustavus Memminger (January 9, 1803–March 7, 1888) was a prominent Confederate political leader. Memminger was born in Naihingen, Germany (in what was then the Kingdom of Württemberg). His father, Gottfried Memminger, was a military officer who died in combat a month after his son's birth. His mother, Eberhardina Kohler Memminger, immigrated to Charleston, South Carolina in the United States but soo ...

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Collier's Weekly was an American magazine that was published between 1888 and 1957. It was founded by Peter Collier. As a result Collier's pioneering investigative journalism, Collier's Weekly established reputation as a proponent of social reform. When attempts by various companies to sue Peter Collier ended in failure, other magazines became involved in what Theodore Rooseve ...

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Coca Cola Corporation was incorporated by Asa Candler, Charley Pemberton and Woolfolk Walker in 1888 and was a forerunner of today's The Coca Cola Corporation. Candler abandoned the company in 1894, in order to solidify his legal claim to the Coca-Cola beverage. Either Pemberton or Walker could have caused significant legal trouble for Candler, as they maintained a stake in the business, and Candler's subsequent incorporation of The Coca Cola Corporatio ...

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Alfred Landé was a German physicist (1888-1976) known for his contributions to Quantum Theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor and an explanation of the Zeeman Effect. Alfred Landé - Life and Achievements. Alred Landé was born on 13 December 1888 in Elberfeld, Germany. In the year 1913 Landé became an assistant of David Hilbert in Goettingen. Here he also came in close contact with Max Born. In physics, it was the time of the Bohr atom model. The leaders of Goettinger science in ...

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