1888

1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1888th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 888th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 19th century, and the 9th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1888, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1850s  1860s  1870s  – 1880s –  1890s  1900s  1910s
Years:	1885 1886 1887 – 1888 – 1889 1890 1891

1888 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1888 MDCCCLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2641
Armenian calendar	1337 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԷ
Assyrian calendar	6638
Bahá'í calendar	44–45
Balinese saka calendar	1809–1810
Bengali calendar	1295
Berber calendar	2838
British Regnal year	51 Vict. 1 – 52 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2432
Burmese calendar	1250
Byzantine calendar	7396–7397
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 4584 or 4524     — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4585 or 4525
Coptic calendar	1604–1605
Discordian calendar	3054
Ethiopian calendar	1880–1881
Hebrew calendar	5648–5649
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1944–1945
- Shaka Samvat	1809–1810
- Kali Yuga	4988–4989
Holocene calendar	11888
Igbo calendar	888–889
Iranian calendar	1266–1267
Islamic calendar	1305–1306
Japanese calendar	Meiji 21 (明治２１年)
Javanese calendar	1817–1818
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4221
Minguo calendar	24 before ROC 民前24年
Nanakshahi calendar	420
Thai solar calendar	2430–2431
Tibetan calendar	མེ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Fire-Boar) 2014 or 1633 or 861     — to — ས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Rat) 2015 or 1634 or 862

Births

• August 9 - Fred C. Newmeyer, American actor and director (d. 1967)
• November 7 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (d. 1934)
• December 22 - J. Arthur Rank, movie executive (d. 1972)

Deaths

• March 6 – Louisa May Alcott, American writer (Little Women, etc.)

Events

• Glasgow Celtic Cup started.
• The Year of the Three Emperors happens.
• The Children's Blizzard occurred.

Movies released

• Roundhay Garden Scene