1886

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).

Contents

Events of 1886

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

External links

Events of 1886

January - March

★ 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.

April - June

★ 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

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★ 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.

★ 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 9 - Centennial celebration of the Stoughton Musical Society.

★ 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

★ 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.

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.

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

★ January 2 - Florence Lawrence, Canadian-born actress (d. 1938)

★ 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)

★ 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, 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

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★ Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970)

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★ Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, German U-boat ace (d. 1941)

★ 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 14 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d. 1956)

★ April 15 - Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)

★ 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

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★ Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant Theologian (d. 1968)

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★ 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 18 - George Mallory, English climber (d. 1924)

★ 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)

★ August 27

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★ Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)

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★ Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)

★ 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)

★ 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)

★ 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)

★ 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)
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Deaths

January - June

★ January 17 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (b. 1834)

★ January 26 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)

★ February 24 - Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (b. 1823)

★ March 17 - Pierre-Jules Hetzel, editor and publisher (b. 1814)

★ May 9 - Facundo Bacardí, Cuban rum manufacturer (b. 1814)

★ May 15 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)

★ 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)

★ December 8 - William Fraser Tolmie, Scottish-Canadian scientist and politician (b. 1812)

★ ''date unknown'' - Andrew Nicholl, Northern Irish painter (b. 1804)
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External links

★ 1886 Coin Pictures