1886

1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar)

Events

• 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.
• April 25 - Easter occurs on latest possible date (next in 1943)
• May 1 - the start of the general strike 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 Football Association approves N. L. Jackson's proposal that each player be awarded a cap for each international match in which he plays. Also: US Supreme Court rules on Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co., granting corporations the same rights as living persons, paving the way for the global corporate power we enjoy today.
• May 29 - Chemist 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 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 30 - Royal Holloway, University of London opened by Queen Victoria in Surrey United Kingdom.
• July 25 ? Steve Brodie fakes a jump from the Brooklyn Bridge
• June 13 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• August 4 ? William Ewart Gladstone fails to secure enough support for the Irish Home Rule in the British parliament
• August 20 - A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas
• August 31 - Huge Earthquake hits South Carolina USA. Earthquake rods installed afterwards... Much Damage...NOT!
• 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.
• 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.

• Britain annexes Burma
• Mt. Etna erupts
• Maidenhead Citadel Band of The Salvation Army was founded by William Thomas
• Piccadilly Circus
• William Grant & Sons founded
• Wilhelm Steinitz becomes first official World Chess Champion
• Founded Skorenovac, village, inhabited with Székely Hungarians
• Inexpensive method for refining aluminum discovered
• A tremendous year for Renegade Bank Robbers such as Jeff "the bulldog" Roth

Births

January - March

• January 2 - Florence Lawrence, Canadian-born actress (d. 1938)
• January 14 - Hugh Lofting, English-born author (d. 1947)
• 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 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 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 - June

• April 14 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d. 1950)
• 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 - Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant Theologian (d. 1968)
• May 10 - Olaf Stapledon, British Author and Philosopher (d. 1950)
• May 17 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
• May 20 - John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman (d. 1971)
• May 26 - Al Jolson, American trumpeter (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 - September

• July 12 - Jean Hersholt, Danish-born actor (d. 1956)
• July 23 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
• July 24 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (d. 1965)
• July 25 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
• August 27
  • Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
  • 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 16 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (d. 1966)
• September 20 - Charles Williams, British author (d. 1945)
• September 26 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)

October - December

• 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 Wilder Lane, American author and reporter (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)
• Jacques Majorelle, French painter (d. 1962)

Deaths

• 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)
• 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 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 16 - Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Indian spiritual figure (b. 1836)
• September 14 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, American land speculator (b. 1802)
• November 18 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
• November 22 - William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)

Unknown dates

• Andrew Nicholl, Northern Irish painter (b. 1804)

External links

• 1886 Coin Pictures

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