Editing 1888 (section)

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*In Germany, 1888 is known as the [[Year of the Three Emperors]]. 
*In Poland, [[Schiffers & Co.]] is founded in [[Warsaw]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nikogosyan |first1=David N. |title=Hollow Ware Marks of Warsaw Silver Plate Factories Operated in the Russian Empire |url=https://www.ascasonline.org/articoloDICEM165.html |website=www.ascasonline.org |publisher=ASSOCIATION OF SMALL COLLECTORS OF ANTIQUE SILVER |access-date=30 April 2024}}</ref>
* The dolphin [[Pelorus Jack]] is first sighted in [[Cook Strait]], New Zealand.
* The [[Camborne School of Mines]] is founded in [[Cornwall]], England.
* [[John Robert Gregg]] first publishes [[Gregg shorthand]] in the United States.
* The Finnish epic ''[[Kalevala]]'' is published for the first time in the [[English language]], by American linguist [[John Martin Crawford (scholar)|John Martin Crawford]].
* [[The Baldwin School]] is founded in [[Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania]], as "Miss [Florence] Baldwin's School for Girls, Preparatory for [[Bryn Mawr College]]".
* [[Letitia Alice Walkington]] became the first woman in the United Kingdom to receive a degree of [[Bachelor of Laws]], from the [[Royal University of Ireland]] at [[Queen's College, Belfast]].
* Global [[pharmaceutical]] and [[health care]] brands are founded in the United States:
** [[G.D. Searle]] by [[Gideon Daniel Searle]] in [[Omaha, Nebraska]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Searle family|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/searle/|access-date=2022-11-12|website=Forbes|year=2015}}</ref>
** [[Abbott Laboratories]] as Abbott Alkaloidal by Dr. Wallace C. Abbott in [[Illinois]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Burrell|first=Brandon|url=https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu:253319/datastream/PDF/view|title=Abbott Laboratories: Provisioning a Vision|publisher=Florida State University|year=2013|location=Tallahassee}}</ref>
* [[Katz's Delicatessen]] is founded in the [[Lower East Side]] of [[Manhattan]].
* First British [[rugby union]] tour of Australia and New Zealand.