1886

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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 slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1886
2 Births
- 2.1 January - June
- 2.2 July - December
3 Deaths
- 3.1 January - June
- 3.2 July - December
4 External links

[edit] Events of 1886

[edit] January - March

January 29 - Karl Benz patent.

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.
January 29 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
February 14 - First trainload of oranges left Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.
March - Linfield F.C. is formed in Belfast
March 17 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
March 29 - Wilhelm Steinitz becomes first recognised World Chess Champion.

[edit] April - June

May 8: Coca-Cola invented.

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).
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.
May 8 - Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be named "Coca-Cola."
May 10
- The US Supreme Court rules on Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co., granting corporations 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 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (ad in the Atlanta Journal).
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.
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.
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.

June 10: Mount Tarawera erupts.

[edit] July - September

October 28: Statue of Liberty.

Nov.30: Folies Bergere

July 23 - Steve Brodie fakes a jump from the Brooklyn Bridge.
August 20 - A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas
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.
September 15 - First day of school 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, US President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
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.

[edit] 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 ressurected again

[edit] Births

**1886 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1886 MDCCCLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2639
Armenian calendar	1335 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԵ
Bahá'í calendar	42 – 43
Buddhist calendar	2430
Chinese calendar	4522/4582-11-27 (乙酉年十一月廿七日) — to — 4523/4583-12-7 (丙戌年十二月初七日)
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)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2546 (皇紀2546年)
- Jōmon Era	11886
Julian calendar	1931
Korean calendar	4219
Thai solar calendar	2429
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