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| 1877 |
| | | A strike against wage cuts by Baltimore railway workers spreads until it becomes almost a national strike | |
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| 1878 |
| | | Stanley agrees to work for Leopold II in opening up the Congo river to commerce | |
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| 1879 |
| | | George Goldie and British traders on the Niger form the United African Company (later the Royal Niger Company) to consolidate their interests | |
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| 1880 |
| | | French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza forestalls Stanley in opening up the Congo, reaching Stanley Pool ahead of him | |
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| 1881 |
| | | Stanley finds Brazza's French tricolor already flying on the north bank of the Congo, on the site of what later becomes Brazzaville | |
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| 1882 |
| | | Stanley establishes a foothold for Leopold II on the southern bank of the Congo, at a site which he names Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) | |
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| 1884 |
| | | US entrepreneur James 'Buck' Duke wins exclusive rights in a machine that can manufacture 100,000 cigarettes a day | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Costa Rica grants a 99-year lease on 800,000 acres to Minor C. Keith, the American founder of the United Fruit Company | |
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| 1885 |
| | | German engineer Karl Friedrich Benz builds the Tri-Star, a three-wheeled vehicle with an internal combustion that is considered the first commercial automobile | |
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| 1885 |
| | | The name Coca-Cola is registered by John S. Pemberton in America for a drink of cocaine, cola nuts and citrus juices | |
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