1888 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1888 in the United Kingdom.

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Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative

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.

Prosecution of Edward King, Anglican bishop of Lincoln for using ritualistic practices begins.
Sarawak and Borneo become British protectorates.
The first recorded film, Roundhay Garden Scene, is made in Roundhay in Leeds. The film is two seconds and 18 frames in length.
Camborne School of Mines founded in Cornwall.

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)

^ ^a ^b (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.