iJunoon Archives |2014 | June

Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.

Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.

Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.

Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana.

American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.

Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between United States and British/Canadian settlers.

The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.

Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.