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| 1886 |
| | | German engineer Gottlied Wilhelm Daimler builds the first successful 4-wheel vehicle with an internal combustion engine | |
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| 1887 |
| | | The US Congress passes the Interstate Commerce Act, an early attempt to avoid the excesses of unrestrained capitalism | |
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| 1887 |
| | | January blizzard and summer drought bring to an end ten years of agricultural boom in the US midwest, prompting a new slogan – 'In Kansas we busted' | |
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| 1888 |
| | | William Lever builds Port Sunlight as a model village for workers in his Sunlight Soap factory | |
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| 1888 |
| | | The Ndebele chieftain, Lobengula, grants Rhodes mining rights in what is now Zimbabwe | |
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| 1889 |
| | | Cecil Rhodes forms the British South Africa Company to push British commerce and imperial control further north | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The French Panama Canal company goes into liquidation with work still in progress | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The first conference of American nations, in Washington, D.C., launches the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics (later called the Pan-American Union) | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The US industrialist Andrew Carnegie argues in The Gospel of Wealth that 'the man who dies rich dies disgraced' | |
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| 1890 |
| | | The Sherman Antitrust Act begins a strong US tradition of protecting the free market | |
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