About the day » Thursday March 22, 1888Calender converter

• Alida Catharina Ballijns, SCHIEDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1909)
• Albertus van Veen, Zwartsluis († 1973)
• Aartje Visser, Huizen
• adrianus BEZEMER, piershil († 1949)
• Adrianus Johannes HUIJSKENS, Naarden Noord-Holland Netherlands († 1956)
• Aaltje Reitsma, Kampen († 1947)
• Adrianus BEZEMER, Piershil, ZH, Nederland († 1949)
• Alida Catharina Ballijns, Schiedam
• Anna Maria Aendekerk, Neeroeteren (B)
• Anna Cornelia Schrauwen, Rucphen en Sprundel († 1964)

• Adriana Hoijmans (72), Maasdriel, Gld, Nederland
• Ann Spivey (29), Fredericktown, Madison, MO
• ALLEGONDA VAN DE LOOIJ (50), STRIJP
• Akke Brouwer (75), Haskerland
• Anna Catharina De Bruijn (64), Antwerpen, België
• Aleida Klee (67), Welsum, Olst, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alida van Galen (91), Rotterdam
• Anna Geertruyda Stadhouders (87), Rotterdam
• Albertus Worst (68), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana van der Zon (51), Hillegom, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• 1880 » Ernest C. Quigley, Canadian-American football player and coach († 1960)
• 1884 » Arthur H. Vandenberg, American journalist and politician († 1951)
• 1884 » Lyda Borelli, Italian actress († 1959)
• 1885 » Aryeh Levin, Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and educator († 1969)
• 1886 » August Rei, Estonian lawyer and politician, Head of State of Estonia († 1963)
• 1887 » Chico Marx, American actor († 1961)
• 1890 » George Clark, American race car driver († 1978)
• 1892 » Charlie Poole, American country banjo player († 1931)
• 1892 » Johannes Semper, Estonian poet and scholar († 1970)
• 1896 » He Long, Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China († 1969)

• 1840 » Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1798)
• 1864 » Konstanty Kalinowski, writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (b. 1793)
• 1896 » Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1822)
• 1913 » Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (b.1864)
• 1913 » Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician (b. 1882)
• 1924 » William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848)
• 1931 » James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1851)
• 1942 » Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1942 » William Donne, English captain and cricketer (b. 1875)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• March 15 » Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
• April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
• August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
• September 4 » George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
• October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
• December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.

The temperature on March 22, 1888 was about 2.0 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.