1888 CE

Kahisakan (可否茶館), the first coffee shop in Japan, opens in Tokyo. Nippon Oil Corporation, predecessor of Eneos, a petroleum and gas energy brand in Japan, is founded in Niigata Prefecture. 1888 United States presidential election: Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the popular vote, but loses the Electoral College vote to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison, therefore losing the election.

In the 1880s, the 19th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

23 January – Elections are held for the Chamber of Deputies. They run until 25 January and again from 12 to 14 October.Romania source
March 12 — Qing government signed a treaty with the US banning Chinese laborers from entering the US in accordance with the Chinese Exclusion ActChina source
April 11 – The Concertgebouw orchestra in Amsterdam is inaugurated.source
May 7 – The bill to abolish slavery is presented in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies.Brazil source
May 13 – In Brazil, the Lei Áurea abolishes the last remnants of slavery.source
June 3 – The Kingdom of Sedang is formed, in modern-day Vietnam.source
June 14 – The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.source
25 July: By-election in the Ashley electorateNew Zealand source
August 9 – The Oaths Act permits the oath of allegiance taken to the Sovereign by Members of Parliament (MPs) to be affirmed, rather than sworn to God, thus confirming the ability of atheists to sit in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.source
August 13 – The Local Government Act, effective from 1889, establishes county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales, redraws some county boundaries, and gives women the vote in local elections. It also declares that "bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes, and other similar machines" be carriages within the meaning of the Highway Acts (which remains the case), and requires that they give audible warning when overtaking "any cart or carriage, or any horse, mule, or other beast of burden, or any foot passenger", a rule abolished in 1930.source
September 8 – In a letter accepting renomination as President of the United States, Grover Cleveland declares the Chinese "impossible of assimilation with our people and dangerous to our peace and welfare".source
9 October – Launceston, Tasmania is proclaimed a city.Australia source
21 October – The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is established.Switzerland source
October 30 – The Rudd Concession, a written concession for exclusive mining rights in Matabeleland, Mashonaland and adjoining territories, is granted by King Lobengula of Matabeleland to Charles Rudd, James Rochfort Maguire and Francis Thompson, who are acting on behalf of South African-based politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes, providing a basis for white settlement of Rhodesia.source
October 30 – Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company obtains Matabeleland from Lobengula in the Rudd Concession, named after Charles Rudd.South Africa source
November 6 – 1888 United States presidential election: Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the popular vote, but loses the Electoral College vote to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison, therefore losing the election.source
30 December – The Crispi government enacted the first Italian law introducing timid regulations on migrant protection to regulate expanding emigration from Italy. The Emigration Act of 1888 is also known as the Crispi Law on emigration. The law proclaimed the freedom to emigrate, as long as those intending to leave were in order with the military draft. It regulated the activities of emigration agents and regulated the contract of maritime transport. Married women could leave but only with their husband's consent. Transatlantic emigration had risen from about 20,000 a year before 1879 to 130,000 in 1887, and to nearly 205,000 in 1888.Italy source

Conflict & Security

9 January – Crofters War: Aignish riot – Dispossessed crofters on Lewis face armed troops.Scotland source
January 19 – The Battle of the Grapevine Creek, the last major conflict of the Hatfield–McCoy feud in the Southeastern United States.source
3 March Wales 11–0 Ireland (in Wrexham)Ireland source
16 March – France annexes the Polynesian kingdom of Raiatea and Taha'a.France source
April 16 – The German Empire annexes the island of Nauru.source
15 June – Wilhelm II becomes German Emperor after the death of his father, Friedrich III.Germany source
In July, Italian troops of General Antonio Baldissera began operations to extend Italian colonial possessions in Italian Eritrea, starting from the already acquired Massawa they targeted the plateau cities of Keren and Asmara.Italy source
August 20 – A mutiny at Dufile, Equatoria, results in the imprisonment of the Emin Pasha.source
October 14 – Battle of Guté Dili: Seeking to extend Mahdist control over what is becomes southwestern Ethiopia, governor Khalil al-Khuzani is routed by an alliance of Shewan forces, under Ras Gobana Dacche and Moroda Bekere, ruler of Leqa Naqamte. Only a handful, including Khalil, barely manage to flee the battlefield.source
25 October – The captain of the HMQS Gayundah, Henry Townley Wright, refuses to relinquish his command after being ordered to do so by the Queensland government. The Colonial Secretary orders Wright be dismissed from the Queensland Maritime Defence Force, and has him removed from the ship by Queensland Police.Australia source
5 November – Belfast is granted city status by Queen Victoria.United Kingdom source
Wellington Cup winner – BeresfordNew Zealand source

Exploration & Expansion

March 9 – 1888 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia: The "English Footballers" embark for the first British rugby union tour of Australasia.source
March 15 – The Sikkim Expedition, a British military expedition to expel the Tibetans from northern Sikkim, begins.source
April 13 – Kahisakan (可否茶館), the first coffee shop in Japan, opens in Tokyo.source
May – Owen Glynne Jones climbs Cadair Idris by the east ridge of the Cyfrwy.Wales source
September 8 – Patagonian sheep farming boom: The Great Herding (El Gran Arreo) begins with thousands of sheep being herded from the Argentine outpost of Fortín Conesa to Santa Cruz near the Strait of Magellan.source
25 October – Theodor Kjerulf, geologist and poet (born 1825)Norway source
December 18 – Richard Wetherill and his brother-in-law, Charlie Mason, discover the Indian ruins of Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado.source
The dolphin Pelorus Jack is first sighted in Cook Strait, New Zealand.source
G. D. Searle by Gideon Daniel Searle in Omaha, Nebraska.source
Boundary survey started by Dr. William H. Dall of the United States and Dr. George M. Dawson of Canada.Canada source
Sikkim expedition, an 1888 British military expedition to expel Tibetan forces from Sikkim in present-day northeast India.China source
The Nordic Exhibition of 1888 took place in Copenhagen.Denmark source
First sightings of the dolphin Pelorus Jack in Cook Strait.New Zealand source
The board game Snakes and Ladders is introduced from India to the U.K. by Jaques of London.United Kingdom source

Religion & Belief

30 January – The Presbyterian Church of New South Wales establishes its first school, the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney.Australia source
March 25 – Opening of an international Congress for Women's Rights organized by Susan B. Anthony in Washington, D.C., leading to formation of the International Council of Women, a key event in the international women's movement.source
May 1 – Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is established by the United States Congress.source
May 13 – Princess Isabel signs the Lei Áurea (Golden Law), which abolishes slavery in Brazil.Brazil source
June 2 – Edward King (bishop of Lincoln) in England is called to account for using ritualistic practices in Anglican worship.source
August – Preaching of Charles Lavigerie in Brussels Minster inspires the founding of the Belgian Anti-Slavery SocietyBelgium source
11 October — German Emperor Wilhelm II in Rome on an official state visit. Visiting the Italian King Umberto I in Rome would be regarded as recognizing his right to rule the Holy City, while the Vatican did not recognise the Italian king's right to rule in Rome. To appease the situation, Wilhelm II also met Pope Leo XIII the next day.Italy source
The town of Amersfoort is established around a Dutch Reformed Church built in 1876.South Africa source
November 24 – The first Saint Verhaegen takes place in Brussels.source
Strandarkirkja was constructed.Iceland source
Sree Narayana Guru, consecrated the first temple for the untouchables in Aruvippuram, Kerala, South India.India source
Auckland Cup winner (December) – LochielNew Zealand source

Economy & Finance

1 March — As a reaction to the strict protectionist tariff established in Italy in July 1887, France introduced a discriminatory trade tariff, and Italy raised their duties on French goods by 50%; initiating a full-scale tariff war. The short-term effects of the tariff war would be dramatic: "Trade between the two countries was halved. Italian exports to France fell from an average of 444 million lire in 1881-87 to an average of 165 million lire in 1888-90; the French share of Italian exports fell from 41 per cent to 18 per cent. Imports from France went down from 307 million to 164 million lire. Only about one-third of the lost export market could be made up elsewhere. Silk and wine were particularly affected, although rice, dairy produce and cattle exports all suffered."Italy source
March 13 – The De Beers diamond mining conglomerate is founded by Cecil Rhodes in Kimberley, Northern Cape (South Africa).source
March 13 – De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded in Kimberley.South Africa source
May 10 – Nippon Oil Corporation, predecessor of Eneos, a petroleum and gas energy brand in Japan, is founded in Niigata Prefecture.source
May 12 – The North Borneo Chartered Company's territories (including Sabah) become the British protectorate of North Borneo.source
17 June – Hans Jensen, businessperson (born 1817)Norway source
24 September – Stock exchange opened at Greenock.Scotland source
October – Salt Union Ltd formed to achieve an effective monopoly over British salt production.United Kingdom source
Katz's Delicatessen is founded on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.source
date unknown – Antofagasta PLC is established.Chile source
Jeweller and glass designer René Lalique establishes the Lalique luxury goods business in Paris.France source
Auckland Cup winner (January) – Nelson (Australian owned)New Zealand source

Technology & Infrastructure

30 January – The first strike in Romania takes place when 300 workers at the Romanian Railways Workshop in Galați walk out in solidarity following the dismissal of a colleague, Ioan A. Ionescu.Romania source
February 27 – In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge, who proposes a scheme for sound film.source
March 1 - Queensland's Western Railway Line reaches Charleville.source
March – Construction work begins on the Dowlais steelworks at East Moors, Cardiff.Wales source
April 3 – The Brighton Beach Hotel in Coney Island (New York) is moved 520 ft, using six steam locomotives, by civil engineer B. C. Miller, to save it from ocean storms.source
April 21 – The Texas State Capitol building, completed at a cost of $3 million, opens to the public in Austin.source
May 30 – Hong Kong's Peak Tram begins operation.source
August 1 – Carl Benz is issued with the world's first driving licence by the Grand Duchy of Baden.source
4 August: Reefton Power Station begins operationNew Zealand source
August 5 – Bertha Benz arrives in Pforzheim having driven 40 mi from Mannheim in a car manufactured by her husband Carl Benz, thus completing the first "long-distance" drive in the history of the automobile.source
August 10 – Dr Friedrich Hermann Wölfert’s motorised airship successfully completes the world’s first engine-driven flight, from Cannstatt to Kornwestheim in Germany.source
August 24 –The first trams in Tallinn (Reval), horsecars, begin operation.source
September 4 – In the United States, George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera, which uses roll film.source
September 6 – Australian cricketer Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season – a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J. T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).source
September 27 – Stanley Park is officially opened by Vancouver (B.C.) mayor David Oppenheimer.source
October 9 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public in Washington, D.C.source
October 14 – Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, two seconds and 18 frames in length (followed by his movie Leeds Bridge and Accordion Player).source
November 8 – Joseph Assheton Fincher files a patent in the United Kingdom for the parlour game which he calls "Tiddledy-Winks".source
December 1 – The Washington Bridge opens to permit-holding pedestrians over the Harlem River in New York City, connecting the boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx.United States source
December 7 – John Boyd Dunlop patents the pneumatic bicycle tyre in the United Kingdom.source
In Poland, silver manufacturer Schiffers & Co. is founded in Warsaw.source
Excavation begins on the water supply tunnels beneath Fremantle Prison, in Western Australia.Australia source
Belgian State Railways Type 12 taken into service.Belgium source
The locomotive named Havelock, built in the Durban workshops and known as Hairy Mary during the Second Boer War, is the first locomotive to be designed and built in South Africa.South Africa source
The trade union Swedish Metalworkers' Union is formed.Sweden source

Science & Discovery

January 3 – The great telescope (with an objective lens of 91 cm diameter) at Lick Observatory in California is first used.source
24 March – Olof Jacobsen, gymnast and Olympic bronze medallistNorway source
13 May – The young Beatrix Potter records a trip to Machynlleth in her diary.Wales source
1 July – "The Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women" first published by Louisa Lawson, in Sydney.Australia source
August 28 – The longest date in roman numerals is achieved, as "VIII-XXVIII-MDCCCLXXXVIII". In contrast, the shortest date (I-I-MM) will be achieved 111 years later on January 1, 2000.source
September 4 – Mohandas Gandhi embarks on the SS Clyde from Bombay for London.source
13 December – Heinrich Hertz presents his report on the discovery of electromagnetic radiation to the Berlin Academy of SciencesGermany source
John Robert Gregg first publishes Gregg shorthand in the United States.source
Maurice Barrès - Le Culte du moiFrance source
W. B. Yeats joins the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society.Ireland source
250 yards – A. Williams (Canterbury)New Zealand source
440 yards – A. Williams (Canterbury)New Zealand source

Health & Medicine

22 December – The Crispi government enacted the first Italian law for the national healthcare system including cremation after a cholera pandemic in 1884–1885 killed approximately 50,000 persons, with a serious outbreak in the city of Naples in August–September 1884, killing 8,000 persons.Italy source
December 23 – During a bout of mental illness (and having quarreled with his friend Paul Gauguin), Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear, taking it to a brothel, and is removed to the local hospital in Arles in the south of France.source
23 December – Having quarrelled with Gauguin, van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his own left ear, taking it to a brothel, and is removed to the hospital in Arles.France source
Abbott Laboratories as Abbott Alkaloidal by Dr. Wallace C. Abbott in Illinois.source
First buildings of the Berufsgenossenschaftliches Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil openedGermany source
Date unknown – Victor Babeș discovers the protozoan parasite Babesia.Romania source
W.D. & H.O. Wills launch the Woodbine brand of cigarette.United Kingdom source

Crime & Justice

April 3 – London prostitute Emma Elizabeth Smith is brutally attacked by two or three men, dying of her injuries the following day, first of the Whitechapel murders, but probably not a victim of Jack the Ripper.source
August 7 – Whitechapel murders: The body of London prostitute Martha Tabram is found, a possible victim of Jack the Ripper.source
August 31 – Whitechapel murders: The mutilated body of London prostitute Mary Ann Nichols is found; she is considered the first victim of Jack the Ripper.source
September 8 – Whitechapel murders: The mutilated body of London prostitute Annie Chapman is found (considered to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper).source
September 27 – Whitechapel murders: The 'Dear Boss letter' signed "Jack the Ripper", the first time the name is used, is received by London's Central News Agency.source
September 30 – Whitechapel murders: The bodies of London prostitutes Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, the latter mutilated, are found. They are generally considered Jack the Ripper's third and fourth victims, respectively.source
October 2 – The Whitehall Mystery: Dismembered remains of a woman's body are discovered at three central London locations, one being the construction site of the police headquarters at New Scotland Yard.source
October – The mediumship of the Fox sisters is confessed to be fraudulent.United States source
6 November – Mentor wins the Melbourne Cup.Australia source
November 9 – Whitechapel murders: The mutilated body of London prostitute Mary Jane Kelly is found. She is considered to be the fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims. A number of similar murders in England follow, but the police attribute them to copy-cat killers.source
Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Alice SetheBelgium source
Among the Millet: Archibald LampmanCanada source
date unknown – The Society for the Protection of Women is founded in Santiago by Juana RoldánChile source
Joseph Rheinberger — Organ Sonata No. 12 in D-flat, Op. 154Germany source
Fours – R. Churton, L. Oughton, W. Carswell and D. Mackie (skip) (Taieri)New Zealand source
Ole Richter, lawyer, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (born 1829)Norway source

Disasters & Accidents

February 20 – The Croatian sailing ship Kostrena, sailing from Cette to Rijeka, ran aground in the Bobina bay on the Istrian side of the Vela vrata strait because of bad weather; the same happened to another Croatian sailing ship, the Ireneo.source
25 June – The Umeå city fire destroyed most of the city of UmeåSweden source
August 9 – A fire destroys the Main Building, the heart of Wells College in Aurora, New York, causing a loss of $130,000.source
August 22 – Earliest evidence of a death and injury by a meteorite, in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.source
5 October – Five sailors are drowned at Colwyn Bay while returning to their ship by boat.Wales source
29 October – Borki train disaster.Russia source
3 November – the Great Sheep Panic, in which thousands of sheep across Oxfordshire stampede.United Kingdom source
The Camborne School of Mines is founded in Cornwall, England.source
Camborne School of Mines founded in Cornwall.United Kingdom source

Climate & Environment

January 12 – The Schoolhouse Blizzard hits Dakota Territory and the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of them children on their way home from school.source
March 11 – The "Great Blizzard of 1888" begins along the East Coast of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.United States source
11 April - Earthquake centred on Corwen.Wales source
11 July – snow falls across the country.United Kingdom source
1 September: 1888 North Canterbury earthquakeNew Zealand source
November 16 – First signs of famine in Ethiopia, caused by drought combined with early spread of the 1890s African rinderpest epizootic.source
A large flock of 110 Pallas's sandgrouse, a rare species of birds in Ireland, is recorded, one of the last known migrations witnessed in Ireland.Ireland source

Culture & Society

January 13 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.source
January 21 – The Amateur Athletic Union is founded by William Buckingham Curtis in the United States.source
March 8 – The Agriculture College of Utah (later Utah State University) is founded in Logan, Utah.source
March 16 – The foundation stone for a new National Library of Greece is laid in Athens.source
March 20 – The first Romani language operetta premieres in Moscow, Russia.source
March 23 – A meeting called by William McGregor to discuss establishment of The Football League is held in London.source
April 6 – The first New Year's Day is observed, of the solar calendar adopted by Siamese King Chulalongkorn, with the 106th anniversary of Bangkok's founding in 1782 as its epoch (reference date).source
April 18 – Westminster School is founded in Simsbury, Connecticut.source
May 8 – The International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow opens (continues to November).source
May 26 – The comic novel The Diary of a Nobody by brothers George and Weedon Grossmith begins serialization in Punch (London).source
June 3 – American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" is first published (under the pen name "Phin") as the last of his humorous contributions to The San Francisco Examiner.source
June 19 – In Chicago, the Republican Convention opens at the Auditorium Building. Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton win the nominations for President and Vice President of the United States, respectively.source
21 June – first published issue of the newspaper Jornal de NotíciasPortugal source
June 29 – Handel's Israel in Egypt is recorded onto wax cylinder at The Crystal Palace in London, the earliest known recording of classical music.source
June 30 – The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom opens its laboratory, on Plymouth Hoe.source
July 2–27 – London matchgirls strike of 1888: About 200 workers, mainly teenaged girls, strike following the dismissal of three colleagues from the Bryant and May match factory, precipitated by an article on their working conditions published on June 23 by campaigning journalist Annie Besant, and the workers unionise on July 27.source
2 July – Ion Luca Caragiale becomes Minister of Education and head of the National Theatre Bucharest. His appointment is controversial and short-lived.Romania source
July 25 – Frank E. McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah, purportedly the only person using touch typing at this time, wins a decisive victory over Louis Traub in a typing contest held in Cincinnati, Ohio. This date can be called the birthday of the touch typing method that is widely used in modern times.source
September 8 – In England, the first six Football League matches are played.source
September 17 – Las Cruces College (later New Mexico State University) is founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico.source
October 1 – Sofia University officially opens, becoming the first university in liberated Bulgaria.source
October 25 – St Cuthbert's Society at the University of Durham in England is founded, after a general meeting chaired by the Reverend Hastings Rashdall.source
The Eastern Province Rugby Union is founded.South Africa source
November 27 – International sorority Delta Delta Delta is founded at Boston University in the United States.source
November 29 – The celebration of Thanksgiving (United States) and the first day of Hanukkah coincide.source
December 17 – The Lyric Theatre, London opens.source
The Finnish epic Kalevala is published for the first time in the English language, by American linguist John Martin Crawford.source
Angus & Robertson publish their first book, A Crown of Wattle, a collection of poetry by H. Peden SteelAustralia source
26-27 August – Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London, visits DendermondeBelgium source
Lingnan University established in Canton, Kwangtung Province, China (now Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China). It was a private university established by a group of American missionaries in 1888China source
Carl Maria von Weber's opera Die drei Pintos completed posthumously by Theodor HellGermany source
Mixed doubles – No competitionNew Zealand source

Births

25 January – Abraham Leib Zissu, political essayist and writer (died 1956).Romania source
January 29 – Wellington Koo, Chinese statesman (died 1985)source
February 11 – John Warren Davis, American educator, college administrator, and civil rights leader (died 1980)source
February 22 – Ervand Kogbetliantz, Armenian mathematician.Iran source
May 11 – Irving Berlin, American composer (died 1989)source
June 13 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (died 1935)source
June 15 – Ramón López Velarde, poetMexico source
August 16 – T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer and academic (died 1935)source
September 6 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American politician (died 1969)source
September 26 – T. S. Eliot, American-born British poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)source
October 7 – Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (died 1965)source
November 7 – Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarcho-communist revolutionary (died 1934)source
November 7 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)source
11 November – Johannes Itten, painter and teacher (died 1967)Switzerland source
November 15 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban World chess champion (1921–1927) (died 1942)source
November 23 – Harpo Marx, American comedian (died 1964)source
December 4 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia (died 1934)source
December 18 – Robert Moses, American civil engineer, public works director, highway and bridge builder (died 1981)source

Deaths

January 31 – John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator and founder of the Salesian Society (born 1815)source
March 6 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (born 1832)source
March 9 – Year of the Three Emperors in Germany: Wilhelm I dies aged 90 and is succeeded as German Emperor and King of Prussia by his son, the terminally ill Frederick III.source
March 9 – Wilhelm I, German Emperor, King of Prussia (born 1797)source
March 13 – Ritter Island eruption and tsunami: The summit of Ritter Island off the coast of New Guinea collapses, resulting in a tsunami and the deaths of an estimated 500 to 3,500 people.source
March 29 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer, pianist (born 1813)source
June 15 – Year of the Three Emperors in Germany: Frederick III dies after ruling for 99 days and is succeeded as German Emperor and King of Prussia by his son, Wilhelm II, who will reign until his abdication in 1918.source
June 15 – Frederick III, German Emperor, King of Prussia (born 1831)source
July 15 – Eruption of Mount Bandai: An explosive eruption of the stratovolcano Mount Bandai in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan results in pyroclastic flows and the deaths of at least 477 people (according to Japanese government sources).source
August 5 – Philip Sheridan, American general (born 1831)source
September 11 – Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Argentine politician, writer, and father of education (born 1811)source
17 September – Iulia Hasdeu, poet, first Romanian woman to study at the University of Paris (born 1869).Romania source
September 23 – François Achille Bazaine, French general (born 1811)source
September 30 – Catherine Eddowes, victim of Jack the Ripper (born 1842)source
November 9 – Mary Jane Kelly, generally considered the fifth and final victim of Jack the Ripper (born 1863)source
27 November – Wilhelm Hertenstein, politician (born 1825)Switzerland source
? – Parviz Mirza (Qajar prince), Iranian Qajar-era prince.Iran source
date unknown: Narciso Mendoza theNiño artillero (Child Gunner) during the Siege of Cuautla in 1812 (born 1800)Mexico source