Timeline Friday 27 January 1888

Events on Friday 27 January 1888 1

• 1888 National Geographic Society founded Thirty-three scientists and explorers form a society in Washington The National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, D.C. on 27 January 1888 to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge. Its magazine, National Geographic, began publication later that year. The society went on to fund expeditions and research around the world for more than a century.