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March 2 – In the Compromise of 1877, the U.S. presidential election, 1876 is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
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July 6 - A strike against the Baltimore & Ohio railroad ignites a series of strikes across the northeast. The violence and disturbances that follow result in Federal troops being called out for the first time in a labor dispute. The strike is crushed, but it gives evidence of the deep conflict between workers and business owners.
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January 22 – Battle of Isandlwana, this was the first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. A force of 1,200 British soldiers was wiped out by the zulu warriors
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July 2 – James A. Garfield, President of the United States, is shot by lawyer Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. He survives the shooting but suffers from infection of his wound, dying on September 19.
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November 4 – Democrat Grover Cleveland defeated Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms
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the influence the United States has on the culture of other countries, such as their popular culture, cuisine, technology, business practices, or political techniques.
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February 12 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
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June 28 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to Austria-Hungary's throne, and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip while the couple were visiting Sarajevo
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May 7 - The British ocean liner RMS Lusitania is sunk by German U-boat, U-20. 1,198 passengers, including 128 Americans were killed
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October 24 - The stock market crashes, marking the end of six years of unparalleled prosperity for most sectors of the American economy.
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September 3 - France and Great Britain declared war on Germany
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December 7 - Japanese bombers fire on the USS Nevada at Pearl Harbor, almost 3,000 Americans were killed. This caused the U.S. to enter WW2
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August 6 - The United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima (20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000)
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June 24 - Korean War begins. Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons
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February 1 - four young African-American men, students at North Carolina Agriculture and Technical College, go to a Woolworth in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sit down at a whites-only lunch counter. They order coffee. Despite being denied service, they sit silently and politely at the lunch counter until closing time. Their action marks the start of the Greensboro sit-ins, which sparks similar protests all over the South.
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May 4 - the Freedom Riders, composed of seven African-American and six white activists, leave Washington, D.C. for the rigidly segregated Deep South. Organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), their goal is to test Boynton v. Virginia
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a symbol of passive resistance and non-violence ideology. Hippies embraced the symbolism by dressing in clothing with embroidered flowers and vibrant colors, wearing flowers in their hair, and distributing flowers to the public, becoming known as flower children
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terms in United States politics to refer to the idea that tax breaks or other economic benefits provided to businesses and upper income levels will benefit poorer members of society by improving the economy as a whole
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the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture. Advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, including the rise of the telegraph and its posterity the Internet, are major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities.
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any period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power
