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| 1881 |
| | | US president James Garfield is shot by Charles J. Guiteau at a Washington railway station, and dies two months later | |
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| 1881 |
| | | On the death of James Garfield, he is succeeded as US president by vice-president Chester A. Arthur | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland wins the US presidental election, defeating Republican James G. Blaine | |
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| 1888 |
| | | Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison wins the US presidential election, defeating the incumbent president Grover Cleveland | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Former president Grover Cleveland defeats incumbent president Benjamin Harrison, becoming the only US president to serve non-consecutive terms | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Republican candidate William McKinley wins the US presidential election, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The US battleship Maine is blown up in Havana harbour, sparking off the Spanish-American War | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Theodore Roosevelt fights against the Spanish in Cuba with a volunteer regiment of cavalry, the Rough Riders | |
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| 1898 |
| | | In the Treaty of Paris, ending the Spanish-American War, Spain cedes Puerto Rico and Cuba to the USA | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The agreement ending the Spanish-American War includes Spain selling the Philippines to the USA for a payment of $20 million | |
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