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Events from the year 1888 in the United Kingdom.
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- 22 March - The Football League is formed.[1]
- June - Annie Besant organises the London matchgirls strike.
- 7 August - The body of Martha Tabram was found, a possible murder victim of Jack the Ripper.[1]
- 31 August - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She was perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims.
- 6 September - Charles Turner becomes the first cricket bowler (a sport) 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).
- 8 September - In London, the dead body of Annie Chapman is found. She is considered to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper.
- 8 September - In England, the first six Football League matches were played.
- 30 September - In London, the bodies of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes are found. They are generally considered Jack the Ripper's third and fourth victim respectively.
- 2 October - The Whitehall Mystery: a body is discovered during the construction of New Scotland Yard.
- 9 November - In London, the dead body of 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 follows, but the police attribute them to copy-cat killers.
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- 18 January - Thomas Sopwith, aviation pioneer and yachtsman (died 1989)
- 8 February - Edith Evans, actress (died 1976)
- 1 March - Ewart Astill, cricketer (Leicestershire) (died 1948)
- 17 May - Tich Freeman, cricketer (died 1965)
- 25 May - Miles Malleson, actor (died 1969)
- 14 August - John Logie Baird, inventor (died 1946)
- 16 August - T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") liaison officer during the Arab Revolt, writer, and academic (died 1935)
- 6 December - Will Hay, actor and comedian (died 1949}
- 7 December - Joyce Cary, author (died 1957)
- 22 December - J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, film magnare (died 1972)
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