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 slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1886
January - March
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January 1 -
Burma was presented to
Queen Victoria as a birthday gift, after the country was annexed into
British India in November,
1885.
★
January 18 - Modern
field hockey is born with the formation of
The Hockey Association in
England.
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January 29 -
Karl Benz patents the first successful
gasoline-driven
automobile.
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February 14 - First trainload of
oranges left
Los Angeles via the
transcontinental railroad.
★ March -
Linfield F.C. is formed in
Belfast
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March 17 -
Carrollton Massacre: 20
African Americans are killed in
Mississippi.
★
March 29 -
Wilhelm Steinitz becomes first recognised World Chess Champion.
April - June
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April 4 -
William Ewart Gladstone introduces the
First Irish Home Rule Bill in the
British parliament. It was defeated on
June 8.
★
April 25 -
Easter occurs on latest possible date (next in
1943).
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May 1 - A
general strike begins in the
United States which escalated into
Haymarket Riot and eventually won the
eight-hour workday in the U.S.
★
May 4 -
Emil Berliner started working on inventing the gramophone.
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May 8 - Pharmacist Dr.
John Stith Pemberton invents a
carbonated beverage that would be named "
Coca-Cola."
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May 10
★
★ The
US Supreme Court rules on Santa Clara County v.
Southern Pacific Railroad Co., granting
corporations the same rights as living persons.
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★
The Football Association approves N. L. Jackson's proposal that each player be awarded a
cap for each international match in which he plays.
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May 29 - Chemist
John Pemberton begins to advertise
Coca-Cola (ad in the ''
Atlanta Journal'').
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May 31 - Over a period of 36 hours, tens of thousands of workers pulled the spikes from the west rail of all the broad gauge lines in the South, moved them 3 inches east and spiked them back in place.
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June 2 - U.S. President
Grover Cleveland marries
Frances Folsom in the
White House, becoming the first and only president to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
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June 9 - Centennial celebration of the
Stoughton Musical Society.
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June 10 - Eruption of
Mount Tarawera volcano in
New Zealand, resulting in the deaths of over 150 people and the destruction of the famous
Pink and White Terraces.
★
June 13 - A
fire devastates much of
Vancouver,
British Columbia.
★
June 30 -
Royal Holloway, University of London opened by
Queen Victoria in
Surrey United Kingdom.
July - September
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July 23 -
Steve Brodie fakes a jump from the
Brooklyn Bridge.
★
August 20 - A massive
hurricane demolishes the town of
Indianola, Texas
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August 31 - Earthquake hits Charlestown,
South Carolina USA. Probably between 7.3-7.6 on the Richter Scale. 40,000 left 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.
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September 15 - First day of school in the newly founded
Alhambra School District.
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September 21 -
William Stanley, Jr. patents the first practical
alternating current transformer device, the
induction coil.
October - December
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October 7 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
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October 28 - In
New York Harbor, US President
Grover Cleveland dedicates the
Statue of Liberty.
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November 30 -
Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
★
December 11 - Dial Square FC, a
football club from
Woolwich,
London that will eventually become known as
Arsenal FC, play their first match, a 6-0 win over Eastern Wanderers.
Undated
★
Maidenhead Citadel Band of
The Salvation Army is founded by William Thomas.
★
Scotch whiskey 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, was ordained in
Rome.
★ 'Fictional'
★
Daniel Fortesque resurrected againn
Births
The last surviving person documented as born in 1886 was
Marie Brémont (April 25) who died on
June 6 2001, aged 115.
January - June
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January 2 -
Florence Lawrence, Canadian-born actress (d.
1938)
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January 11 -
Chester Conklin, American actor (d.
1971)
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January 14 -
Hugh Lofting, English-born author (d.
1947)
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January 18 -
Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (d.
1962)
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January 25 -
Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d.
1954)
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February 8 -
Charles Ruggles, American actor (d.
1970)
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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,
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 24 -
Edward Weston, American photographer (d.
1958)
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March 25 -
Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople (d.
1972)
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March 27 -
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d.
1969)
★
April 14 -
Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d.
1956)
★
April 15 -
Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish
general (d.
1947)
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April 26 -
Ma Rainey, American singer (d.
1939)
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May 2 -
Gottfried Benn, German poet (d.
1956)
★
May 3 -
Marcel Dupré, French composer (d.
1971)
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May 10
★
★
Karl Barth, Swiss
Protestant Theologian (d.
1968)
★
★
Olaf Stapledon, British author and philosopher (d.
1950)
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May 17 - King
Alfonso XIII of Spain (d.
1941)
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May 18 -
Ture Nerman, Swedish communist leader (d.
1969)
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May 20 -
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman (d.
1971)
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May 26 -
Al Jolson, American entertainer (d.
1950)
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June 7 -
Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d.
1972)
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June 18 -
George Mallory, English climber (d.
1924)
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June 24 -
George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d.
1949)
July - December
★
July 3 -
Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and ambassador (d.
1969)
★
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)
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August 27
★
★
Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d.
1979)
★
★
Eric Coates, English composer (d.
1957)
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September 4 -
Albert Orsborn, the 6th General of
The Salvation Army (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)
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September 20 -
Charles Williams, British author (d.
1945)
★
September 24 -
Roberto María Ortiz,
President of Argentina (d.
1942)
★
September 26 -
Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1977)
★
September 28 -
Alice Hollister, American silent film actress. (d.
1973)
★
October 6 -
Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d.
1960)
★
October 16 -
David Ben-Gurion, first
Prime Minister of Israel (d.
1973)
★
November 1 -
Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d.
1951)
★
November 9 -
Ed Wynn, American actor (d.
1966)
★
November 15 -
René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d.
1951)
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November 20 -
Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1982)
★
December 3 -
Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1978)
★
December 5 -
Rose Lane, née Wilder, American author and reporter and daughter of author
Laura Ingalls Wilder (d.
October 30,
1968)
★
December 8 -
Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d.
1957)
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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)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January - June
★
January 17 -
Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (b.
1834)
★
January 26 -
David Rice Atchison, American politician (b.
1807)
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February 24 -
Hugh Stowell Brown,
Manx preacher (b.
1823)
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March 17 -
Pierre-Jules Hetzel, editor and publisher (b.
1814)
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May 9 -
Facundo Bacardí, Cuban rum manufacturer (b.
1814)
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May 15 -
Emily Dickinson, American poet (b.
1830)
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May 17 -
John Deere, inventor (b.
1804)
★
June 13 - King
Ludwig II of Bavaria (b.
1845)
July - December
★
July 1 -
Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German geologist (b.
1806)
★
July 31 -
Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (b.
1811)
★
August 9 -
Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b.
1810)
★
August 11 -
Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b.
1843)
★
August 16 -
Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Indian spiritual figure (b.
1836)
★
August 30 -
Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b.
1836)
★
September 3 -
William W. Snow, American politician (b.
1812)
★
September 14 -
Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, American land speculator (b.
1802)
★
October 8 -
Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b.
1819)
★
November 18 -
Chester A. Arthur, 21st
President of the United States (b.
1829)
★
November 20 -
William Bliss Baker, American painter (b.
1859)
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December 8 -
William Fraser Tolmie, Scottish-Canadian scientist and politician (b.
1812)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Andrew Nicholl, Northern Irish painter (b.
1804)
: ''See also .''
External links
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1886 Coin Pictures
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