Timeline of the Avengers' 1888 story

The VICTORIAN ERA

The year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of Three Emperors and is also a secret code to mean Adolf Hitler Heil Hitler (1=A, 8=H). Currently, it is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits (13). This record will not be equalled until 2388 (MMCCCLXXXVIII).

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ISSUE #2, as of 11/6/07

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September, '88

9th

BROADSHEET Daily Trumpet Issue #2: HEADLINE - "RIPPER - RED LIGHT KILLING TOO MUCH FOR THE POLICE?"

8th

London, the dead body of Alexander Gentry (known for the development of his Maxim "Quill" armored plate) is found. Gentry, a former prototype developer from the Maxim-Nordenfelt Guns, Ammunition Industry Munitions (office at 32 Victoria Street SW, London) is considered to be the second victim of the Ripper.

England, the first 6 Football League matches ever were played.

6th

Charles Turner becomes the first cricket 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).

4th

George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.

August, '88

31th

London, Wilbur Day (aka. "London Tower", known petty theif) auxiliary mechanical engineer of The Society for the Advancement of Intelligentĭa and Mechanisms (A.I.M.) is murdered. He is the first of the Ripper's victims.

BROADSHEET Daily Trumpet Issue #1: HEADLINE - " MENACE to MANKIND! An unknowable Spyder-man haunts the city"

29th

Isle of Wight, England, a 200 meter cylindric hole appears on the Isle of Wight off the coast of England. The hole swallows half of the Osbourne House mansion, a favorite summer home of Queen Victoria.

Osbourne House, Isle of Wight

The land and sea surrounding the House begins to bubble and boil becoming near volcanic - expanding at a rate of about 2 miles radius every 24 hours!!

June, '88

29th

Handel's Israel in Egypt is recorded onto wax cylinder at The Crystal Palace, it being the earliest known recording of classical music.

3rd

Casey at the Bat published

March, '88

22nd

The Football League is formed

11th

The "Great Blizzard of '88" begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.

February, '88

27th

In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge who proposes a scheme for sound film.

January, '88

27th

In Washington, DC, the National Geographic Society is founded.

12th

Blizzards (see: Schoolhouse Blizzard) hit Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, with 235 dead, many of whom were children on their way home from school.

3rd

The 91-centimeter telescope is first used at Lick Observatory.

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NOTES

• September 30 - 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.
• October 9 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
• October 14 - Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. Followed by his movie Leeds Bridge.
• November 6 - The U.S. presidential election, 1888. United States Democratic Party incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the popular vote, but loses the U.S. Electoral College vote to United States Republican Party challenger Benjamin Harrison, therefore losing the election.
• November 9 - In London, England, 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 follow, but the police attribute them to copy-cat killers.
• December 23 - During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear and gives it to a prostitute.

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