1886
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1850s 1860s 1870s – 1880s – 1890s 1900s 1910s |
| Years: | 1883 1884 1885 – 1886 – 1887 1888 1889 |
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Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1886
[edit] January–March
- January 1 – Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift, after the country is annexed into British India in November 1885.
- January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament, to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck.
- January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
- January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent Motorwagen (built in 1885).
- February 14 – The first train load of oranges leaves Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.
- March
- The Linfield F.C. is formed in Belfast.
- Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, USA.
- March 3 – The Treaty of Bucharest ends the Serbo-Bulgarian War in the Balkans.
- March 16 – A law establishing the Kiel Canal is adopted.
- March 17 – Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
- March 29 – Wilhelm Steinitz becomes first recognized World Chess Champion.
[edit] April–June
- April 4 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the First Irish Home Rule Bill in the British Parliament; it is defeated on June 8.
- April 25 – Easter occurs on the latest possible date (the next time in 1943).
- May 1 – A general strike begins in the United States, which escalates into the Haymarket Riot and eventually wins the eight-hour workday in the U.S.
- May 4 – Emil Berliner starts work that leads to the invention of the gramophone.
- May 8 – Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be named Coca-Cola.
- May 15 – Portugal and France agree to regulate the borders of their colonies in Guinea.
- May 17 – The Motherwell Football Club is formed.
- Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that corporations have the same rights as living persons.
- The Football Association approves N. L. Jackson's proposal that each player be awarded a cap for each international match in which he plays.
- May 29 – Pharmacist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (ad in the Atlanta Journal).
- June 2 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
- June 9 – The centennial of the Stoughton Musical Society is celebrated.
- June 10 – The Mount Tarawera volcano erupts in New Zealand, resulting in the deaths of over 150 people and the destruction of the famous Pink and White Terraces.
- June 12 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is captured.
- June 13 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
- June 30 – The Royal Holloway, University of London is opened by Queen Victoria in Surrey, United Kingdom.
[edit] July–September
- July 3 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen .
- July 9 – Charles Hall files a patent for his process of turning aluminium oxide into molten aluminium.
- July 23 – Steve Brodie fakes a jump from the Brooklyn Bridge.
- July 25 – Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative Party (UK)) becomes Great Britain's 30th Prime Minister.
- August 20 – A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas.
- August 31 – An earthquake of between 7.3 and 7.6 on the Richter Scale hits Charlestown, South Carolina, leaving 40,000 homeless.
- September 4 – Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
- September 15 – The first day of school begins in the newly founded Alhambra School District.
- September 21 – William Stanley, Jr. patents the first practical alternating current transformer device, the induction coil.
[edit] October–December
- October 7 – Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
- October 28 – In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- November 3 – In Pakistan one of the biggest schools in the country, Aitchison College, Lahore, was founded by Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison
- November 30 – The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
- November 11 – Heinrich Hertz verifies at the University of Karlsruhe the existence of the electromagnetic waves.
- December 11 – Dial Square F.C., a football club from Woolwich, London that will eventually become known as Arsenal FC, play their first match, a 6–0 win over the Eastern Wanderers.
[edit] Undated
- The Maidenhead Citadel Band of The Salvation Army is founded by William Thomas.
- Scotch whisky distiller William Grant & Sons is founded.
- The village of Skorenovac is founded, mostly by Székely Hungarians.
- An inexpensive method for refining aluminum, the Hall-Héroult process, is discovered.
- Father Augustine Tolton, the first Roman Catholic priest from the United States to proclaim himself African American, is ordained in Rome.
- Horse-drawn streetcars of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying c. 900 million riders per year.
- The establishment of the Yorkshire Tea merchants.
- The tradition of Slovak company Old Herold.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1886 MDCCCLXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2639 |
| Armenian calendar | 1335 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 42 – 43 |
| Berber calendar | 2836 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2430 |
| Burmese calendar | 1248 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7394 – 7395 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙酉年十一月廿七日 (4522/4582-11-27) — to —
丙戌年十二月初七日(4523/4583-12-7) |
| Coptic calendar | 1602 – 1603 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1878 – 1879 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5646 – 5647 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1941 – 1942 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1808 – 1809 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4987 – 4988 |
| Holocene calendar | 11886 |
| Iranian calendar | 1264 – 1265 |
| Islamic calendar | 1303 – 1304 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 19 (明治19年) |
| Korean calendar | 4219 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2429 |
[edit] January–June
- January 2 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian-born actress (d. 1938)
- January 7 – Amedeo Maiuri, Neapolitan archaeologist (d. 1963)
- January 11 – Chester Conklin, American actor (d. 1971)
- January 14 – Hugh Lofting, English-born author (d. 1947)
- January 18 – Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (d. 1962)
- January 25 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
- January 28 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976)
- February 2 – Frank Lloyd, English-born film director, scriptwriter and producer (d. 1960)
- February 8 – Charles Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970)
- February 27 – Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)
- March 1 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist and poet (d. 1980)
- March 2 – Willis O'Brien, American stop motion animator (d. 1962)
- March 3 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)
- March 7 – Jacques Majorelle, French painter (d. 1962)
- March 8 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)
- March 11 – Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Polish politician, Marshal of Poland (d. 1941)
- March 15 – Sergei Kirov, Soviet revolutionary (d. 1934)
- March 18
- Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970)
- Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, German U-boat ace (d. 1941)
- March 20 – Grace Brown, American murder victim whose story became a famous court case, (d. 1906)
- March 24 – Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
- March 25 – Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople (d. 1972)
- March 27 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d. 1969)
- April 8 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer (d. 1967)
- April 14 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d. 1956)
- April 15 – Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)
- April 16 – Ernst Thälmann, German Communist Leader (d. 1944)
- April 25 – Marie Brémont, the last surviving person documented as born in 1886 (d. 2001)
- April 26 – Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
- May 2 – Gottfried Benn, German poet (d. 1956)
- May 3 – Marcel Dupré, French composer (d. 1971)
- May 10
- Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (d. 1968)
- Olaf Stapledon, British author and philosopher (d. 1950)
- May 17 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
- May 18 – Ture Nerman, Swedish communist leader (d. 1969)
- May 20 – John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman (d. 1971)
- May 26 – Al Jolson, American entertainer (d. 1950)
- June 7 – Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
- June 9 – Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor (d. 1965)
- June 18 – George Mallory, English climber (d. 1924)
- June 24 – George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d. 1949)
- June 25 – Henry "Hap" Arnold, American Five-Star General, U.S. Army, aviation pioneer (d. 1950)
- June 29 – Robert Schuman, German-French politician, a founding father of the European Union (d. 1963)
[edit] July–December
- July 3 – Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and ambassador (d. 1969)
- July 5 – Willem Drees, Dutch Politician, Prime Minister and Centenarian (d. 1988)
- July 12 – Jean Hersholt, Danish-born actor (d. 1956)
- July 23 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
- July 24 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese writer (d. 1965)
- July 25 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
- August 2 – John A.D. McCurdy, aviation pioneer & Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1961)
- August 27
- Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
- Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
- September 1 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer (d. 1957)
- September 4 – Albert Orsborn, the 6th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967)
- September 5 – Nell Brinkley, American illustrator and comic artist (d. 1944)
- September 8 – Siegfried Sassoon, British poet (d. 1967)
- September 13 – Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- September 14 – Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (d. 1948)
- September 16 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (d. 1966)
- September 20 – Charles Williams, British author (d. 1945)
- September 24
- Roberto María Ortiz, President of Argentina (d. 1942)
- Edward Bach, English metaphysician and homeopath (d. 1936)
- September 26 – Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)
- September 28 – Alice Hollister, American silent film actress (d. 1973)
- October 3 – Henri Alban-Fournier, French author of Le Grand Meaulnes
- October 6 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
- October 16 – David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
- October 17 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (d. 1985)
- October 21 – Eugene Ely, pioneer aviator, (d. 1911)
- October 26 – Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett, newspaper columnist for The Chicago Tribune and expert on Sherlock Holmes, born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1974
- October 30 – Zoë Akins, American playwright, poet, and author (d. 1958)
- November 1 – Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d. 1951)
- November 6 – André Marty, French Communist Party leader (d. 1956)
- November 9 – Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
- November 12 – Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, Spanish prince and military aviator (d. 1975)
- November 15 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
- November 20 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1982)
- November 26 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, editor (d. 1973)
- December 3 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
- December 5 – Rose Wilder Lane, American author (d. 1968)
- December 8 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)
- December 12 – Owen Moore, Irish actor (d. 1939)
- December 18 – Ty Cobb, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1961)
- December 25 – Kid Ory, American jazz musician (d. 1973)
- December 30 – Austin Osman Spare, English artist and magician
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–June
- January 17 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (born 1834)
- January 18 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (born 1819)
- January 25 – Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, Chilean historian (born 1831)
- January 26 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (born 1807)
- February 18 – Dave Rudabaugh, American outlaw and gunfighter (born 1854)
- February 24 – Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (born 1823)
- March 17 – Pierre-Jules Hetzel, French editor and publisher (born 1814)
- April 27 – Henry Hobson Richardson, prominent American architect (born 1838)
- May 9 – Facundo Bacardí, Cuban rum manufacturer (born 1814)
- May 15 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (born 1830)
- May 17 – John Deere, American inventor (born 1804)
- June 13 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria (born 1845)
[edit] July–December
- July 1 – Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German geologist (born 1806)
- July 4 – Poundmaker, Aboriginal Canadian leader, born ca. (b. ca. 1842)
- July 31 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (born 1811)
- August 9 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (born 1810)
- August 11 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (born 1843)
- August 16 – Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Indian spiritual figure (born 1836)
- August 30 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (born 1836)
- September 3 – William W. Snow, American politician (born 1812)
- September 14 – Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, American land speculator (born 1802)
- October 8 – Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (born 1819)
- November 18 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (born 1829)
- November 20 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (born 1859)
- December 8 – William Fraser Tolmie, Scottish-Canadian scientist and politician (born 1812)
- date unknown – Andrew Nicholl, Northern Irish painter (born 1804)
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