1886

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century 19th century 20th century
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
Years:	1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889

1886 in variouscalendars

Gregorian calendar	1886 MDCCCLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2639
Armenian calendar	1335 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԵ
Assyrian calendar	6636
Baháʼí calendar	42–43
Balinese saka calendar	1807–1808
Bengali calendar	1293
Berber calendar	2836
British Regnal year	49Vict. 1– 50Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2430
Burmese calendar	1248
Byzantine calendar	7394–7395
Chinese calendar	Ất dậuNăm (WoodRooster) 4583 or 4376 — to — Bính tuất năm (FireDog) 4584 or 4377
Coptic calendar	1602–1603
Discordian calendar	3052
Ethiopian calendar	1878–1879
Hebrew calendar	5646–5647
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	1942–1943
-Shaka Samvat	1807–1808
-Kali Yuga	4986–4987
Holocene calendar	11886
Igbo calendar	886–887
Iranian calendar	1264–1265
Islamic calendar	1303–1304
Japanese calendar	Meiji19 ( minh trị １９ năm )
Javanese calendar	1815–1816
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4219
Minguo calendar	26 beforeROC Dân trước 26 năm
Nanakshahi calendar	418
Thai solar calendar	2428–2429
Tibetan calendar	Âm gà gỗ năm (female Wood-Rooster) 2012 or 1631 or 859 — to — Dương hỏa cẩu năm (male Fire-Dog) 2013 or 1632 or 860

1886(MDCCCLXXXVI) was acommon year starting on Fridayof theGregorian calendarand acommon year starting on Wednesdayof theJulian calendar,the 1886th year of theCommon Era(CE) andAnno Domini(AD) designations, the 886th year of the2nd millennium,the 86th year of the19th century,and the 7th year of the1880sdecade. As of the start of 1886, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

• January 1–Upper Burmais formally annexed toBritish Burma,following its conquest in theThird Anglo-Burmese WarofNovember1885.
• January 5–9–Robert Louis Stevenson's novellaStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hydeis published in New York and London.
• January 16– A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn thePrussian deportations,the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews fromPrussia,initiated byOtto von Bismarck.
• January 18– Modernfield hockeyis born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
• January 29–Karl Benzpatents the first successfulgasoline-drivenautomobile,theBenz Patent-Motorwagen(built in1885).
• February 6–9–Seattle riot of 1886:Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington.
• February 8– TheWest End Riotsfollowing a popular meeting inTrafalgar Square,London.
• February 14– The first trainload oforangesleaves Los Angeles via theUnited States transcontinental railroad.
• March 3– TheTreaty of Bucharestends theSerbo-Bulgarian Warin the Balkans.
• March 16– A law establishing theKiel Canalis adopted in theGerman Empire.
• March 17–Carrollton Massacre:20African Americansare killed inMississippi.
• March 29–Wilhelm Steinitzbecomes the first recognized World Chess Champion.
• March –Gottlieb Daimlerassembles his first automobile, in Germany.

April–June

May 8:Coca-Colainvented.

• April 4–William Ewart Gladstoneintroduces theFirst Irish Home Rule Billin theParliament of the United Kingdom;it is defeated onJune 8.
• April 6– The settlement ofVancouver,British Columbia,is incorporated.
• April 24– FatherAugustine Tolton,the firstRoman Catholic priestfrom the United States to identify himself publicly asAfrican American,is ordained inRome.
• April– TheSwedish Dress Reform Societyis established.
• May 1– Ageneral strikebegins in the United States, which escalates onMay 4into theHaymarket affairin Chicago, and eventually wins theeight-hour dayfor workers.
• May 4–Emile Berlinerstarts work that leads to the invention of thegramophone.
• May 8– American pharmacist Dr.John Pembertoninvents acarbonatedbeverage that will be named 'Coca-Cola'.
• May 15– Portugal and France agree to regulate the borders of their colonies in Guinea.
• May 17
  • Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad:TheU.S. Supreme Courtrules thatcorporationshave the same rights as living persons.
  • Motherwell Football Clubis founded in Scotland.
• May 29–John Pembertonbegins to advertiseCoca-Cola(inThe Atlanta Journal).
• June 2– U.S. PresidentGrover ClevelandmarriesFrances Folsomin theWhite House(Washington, D.C.), becoming the onlyPresident of the United Statesto wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
• June 3–Uganda Martyrs:Charles Lwanga,12 other Catholic boys and men, and 9 Anglicans, are burned (and another Catholic speared) to death, at the orders of KabakaMwanga II of BugandainNamugongo.

June 10:Mount Taraweraerupts.

• June 10– TheMount Tarawera volcano eruptsinNew Zealand,resulting in the deaths of over 150 people and the destruction of the famousPink and White Terraces.
• June 12– KingLudwig II of Bavariais detained as part of a deposition, drowning the following day under mysterious circumstances. Six weeks later his unfinishedNeuschwanstein Castleis opened to the public.
• June 13
  • TheGreat Vancouver Firedevastates much ofVancouver,British Columbia.
  • A largelog jamforms on theSt. Croix RivernearTaylors Falls,Minnesota
• June 25–Arturo Toscaninimakes his conducting debut, with an Italian opera company visitingRio de Janeiro.
• June 30– TheRoyal Holloway Collegefor women is opened byQueen Victoria,near London, England.

July–September

November 30:Folies Bergère.

• July 3–Karl Benzofficially unveils theBenz Patent Motorwagen.
• July 9– American inventorCharles Martin Hallfiles a patent for his inexpensive method of refiningaluminium(discovered on February 23); independently and near-simultaneously discovered in France byPaul Héroultit becomes known as theHall–Héroult process.
• July 23–Steve Brodieis reported to have made a jump from theBrooklyn Bridge,a claim subsequently disputed.
• July 25–Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of SalisburybecomesPrime Ministerof the United Kingdom.
• August 13–Nagasaki Incident:Chinese troops riot during shore leave in Nagasaki, Japan.
• August 19– The Christian Union (Church of God) is established.
• August 20– A massivehurricanedemolishes the town ofIndianola, Texas.
• August 31– The 7.0 M_w Charleston earthquakeaffects southeastern South Carolina, with a maximumMercalli intensityof X (Extreme); 60 people are killed, and damage is estimated at$5–6 million.
• September 1–Grasshopper Club Zürichis founded as the first football club in the Swiss city ofZürichby English students.
• September 4–American Indian Wars:After almost 30 years of fighting,ApacheleaderGeronimosurrenders, with his last band of warriors, to GeneralNelson Miles,atSkeleton CanyoninArizona.
• September 9– TheBerne Conventionfor the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is signed.
• September 21– American physicistWilliam Stanley Jr.patents the first practicalalternating currenttransformerdevice, theinduction coil.

October–December

• October 7– Spain abolishesslavery in Cuba.
• October 24– The British merchant vesselNormantonsinks off the coast of Japan, triggering theNormanton incident.
• October 28– U.S. PresidentGrover Clevelanddedicates theStatue of Liberty,a gift from France, inNew York Harbor.The ensuing spontaneous celebration in New York City leads to the firstticker tape parade.
• November– The extremely harshwinter of 1886–87 in the United Statesbegins, killing tens of thousands of cattle on theGreat Plainsof North America.
• November 1– The biggest Buddhist boys' school in Sri Lanka,Ananda College,is founded in Colombo.
• November 3– In theBritish Raj,what will become one of the biggest boys' schools in Pakistan,Aitchison College,Lahore,is founded under the auspices of SirCharles Umpherston Aitchison.
• November 11–Heinrich Hertzverifies the existence ofelectromagnetic waves,at theUniversity of Karlsruhe.
• November 14– German inventorFriedrich Soenneckenfirst develops the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
• November 15– TheWerkstätte für Feinmechanik und Elektrotechnik(Workshop for Fine Mechanics and Electronics) is founded inBaden-Württemberg,GermanybyRobert Bosch.The company will later become thehome applianceandpower tool brand,Robert Bosch GmbH.
• November 30– TheFolies Bergèrestages its first revue in Paris.
• December 11– LondonAssociation footballclubArsenal,founded as Dial Square by workers at theRoyal ArsenalinWoolwich,play their first match(on theIsle of Dogs). The club is renamed Royal Arsenal soon afterwards, supposedly onDecember 25.
• December 17– English adventurerThomas Stevensconcludes the firstcircumnavigationbybicycleinYokohama,having set out on hispenny-farthingfromSan Franciscoin1884.

Date unknown

• Addis Ababais founded in theEthiopian Empire.
• The village ofSkorenovacis founded in Serbia, mostly bySzékelyHungarians.
• Scotch whiskydistillerWilliam Grant & Sonsis founded.
• Yorkshire Teais established inHarrogate,England.
• Johnson & Johnson,which becomes a multinational brand, begins manufacturinghealthcareproducts inNew Jersey,United States.
• Avon Products,a worldwidecosmeticsandhouseholdbrand is founded inNew York City,United States.
• Food productandprocessing brandDel Monte Foodsis founded inCalifornia,United States.
• Emily Ruetepublishes her landmarkmemoir,Memoirs of an Arabian Princess: An Autobiography.
• Bedford Rugby Clubis formed in England.

Births

January–February

Wilhelm Furtwängler

Alfonso López Pumarejo

Oskar Kokoschka

• January 2–Florence Lawrence,Canadian-born American actress (d.1938)
• January 5–Markus Reiner,Israeli scientist (d.1976)
• January 7–Amedeo Maiuri,Italian archaeologist (d.1963)
• January 11
  • George Zucco,English–born American character actor (d.1960)
  • Chester Conklin,American actor (d.1971)
• January 13–Sophie Tucker,Russian-born American singer, comedian (d.1966)
• January 14–Hugh Lofting,English-born American author (d.1947)
• January 17–Joe Masseria,Italian-born American gangster (d.1931)
• January 25–Wilhelm Furtwängler,German conductor (d.1954)
• January 27–Frank Nitti,Italian-born American gangster (d.1943)
• January 28–Hidetsugu Yagi,Japanese electrical engineer (d.1976)
• January 31–Alfonso López Pumarejo,14th and 16th President of Colombia (d.1959)
• February 2–Frank Lloyd,English-born American film director, scriptwriter and producer (d.1960)
• February 4–Edward Sheldon,American playwright (d.1946)
• February 7–Yehezkel Abramsky,Russian-born British rabbi (d.1976)
• February 8–Charlie Ruggles,American actor (d.1970)
• February 9–Edwin Maxwell,Irish actor (d.1948)
• February 12–Margarita Fischer,American silent film actress (d.1975)
• February 17–Aeneas Francon Williams,English missionary, Church of Scotland minister, writer and poet (d.1971)
• February 19–José Abad Santos,Filipino jurist, lawyer (d.1942)
• February 22–Oskar Kokoschka,Austrian artist and poet (d.1980)
• February 27–Hugo Black,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States(d.1971)

March–April

Kazimierz Świtalski

Kálmán Darányi

Margaret Woodrow Wilson

• March 2
  • Willis H. O'Brien,Americanstop motionanimator (d.1962)
  • Vittorio Pozzo,Italian football player and manager (d.1968)
  • Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg,German general (d.1974)
• March 4–Kazimierz Świtalski,Polish diplomat, politician, soldier and military officer, 18thPrime Minister of Poland(d.1962)
• March 6
  • Saburō Kurusu,Japanese diplomat (d.1954)
  • Nella Walker,American actress, vaudevillian (d.1971)
• March 7–Virginia Pearson,American silent film actress (d.1958)
• March 8–Edward Calvin Kendall,American chemist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine(d.1972)
• March 9–Robert L. Eichelberger,American general (d.1961)
• March 11–Edward Rydz-Śmigły,Polish politician,Marshal of Poland(d.1941)
• March 15–Sergey 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 19–Giuseppe Mario Bellanca,Italian-born American airplane designer, manufacturer (d.1960)
• March 20–Grace Brown,American murder victim whose story became a famous court case (d.1906)
• March 22–Kálmán Darányi,31st Prime Minister of Hungary (d.1939)
• March 24–Edward Weston,American photographer (d.1958)
• March 25–Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople(d.1972)
• March 27–Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,German architect (d.1969)
• April 4–William R. Munroe,American admiral (d.1966)
• April 5–Gustavo Jiménez,President of Peru (d.1933)
• April 14–Ernst Robert Curtius,Alsatian philologist (d.1956)
• April 16
  • Ernst Thälmann,German Communist leader (d.1944)
  • Margaret Woodrow Wilson,American singer;Presidentialdaughter (d.1944)
• April 26–Ma Rainey,American singer (d.1939)
• April 30–Dick Elliott,American actor (d.1961)

May–June

KingAlfonso XIII of Spain

Al Jolson

• May 2–Gottfried Benn,German poet (d.1956)
• May 3–Marcel Dupré,French composer (d.1971)
• May 5–Émile Eddé,4th Prime Minister and 3rd President of Lebanon (d.1949)
• May 10
  • Karl Barth,SwissProtestanttheologian(d.1968)
  • Felix Manalo,Filipino Executive Minister (Tagapamahalang Pangkalahatan) of theIglesia ni Cristo(d.1963)
  • Olaf Stapledon,British author, philosopher (d.1950)
• May 17– KingAlfonso XIII of Spain(d.1941)
• May 18–Ture Nerman,Swedish communist leader (d.1969)
• May 20–John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever,American-born British businessman (d.1971)
• May 26–Al Jolson,American entertainer (d.1950)
• June 6–William A. Glassford,American admiral (d.1958)
• June 7–Henri Coandă,Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d.1972)
• June 9–Kosaku Yamada,Japanese composer, conductor (d.1965)
• June 18–George Mallory,English climber (d.1924)
• June 23–Olaf M. Hustvedt,American admiral (d.1978)
• June 24–Ion Gigurtu,42nd Prime Minister of Romania (d.1959)
• June 25–Henry H. Arnold,American general, aviation pioneer (d.1950)
• June 28–Hitoshi Imamura,Japanese general (d.1968)
• June 29–Robert Schuman,German-French politician, afounding father of the European Union(d.1963)

July–August

Willem Drees

Walter H. Schottky

• July 3
  • Giovanni Battista Caproni,Italian aeronautical, civil, and electrical engineer, aircraft designer, and industrialist (d.1957)
  • Raymond A. Spruance,American admiral, ambassador (d.1969)
• July 5–Willem Drees,Dutch politician and historian, 30thPrime Minister of the Netherlands(d.1988)
• July 6–Lou Skuce,Canadian cartoonist (d.1951)
• July 12–Jean Hersholt,Danish-born American actor (d.1956)
• July 15–William Edmunds,Italian stage, screen character actor (d.1981)
• July 18–Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.,American general (d.1945)
• July 23–Walter H. Schottky,German physicist (d.1976)
• July 24–Jun'ichirō Tanizaki,Japanese writer (d.1965)
• July 25–Bror von Blixen-Finecke,Swedish big-game hunter (d.1946)
• July 31–Fred Quimby,American film producer (d. 1965)
• August 2–John Alexander Douglas McCurdy,Canadian aviation pioneer, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d.1961)
• August 6–Inez Milholland,American suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent and public speaker (d.1916)
• August 12–Campbell Tait,British admiral and Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d.1946)
• August 20–Paul Tillich,German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, theologian (d.1965)
• August 26–Ceferino Namuncurá,ArgentineRoman Catholiclay brother and blessed (d.1905)
• August 27
  • Nicolette Bruining,Dutch theologian, humanitarian (d.1963)
  • Rebecca Clarke,English composer, violist (d.1979)
  • Eric Coates,English composer (d.1957)
• August 28–Andrew Higgins,American boatbuilder, industrialist (d.1952)

September–October

Roberto María Ortiz

Archibald Hill

David Ben-Gurion

• September 1
  • Tarsila do Amaral,Brazilian modernist painter (d.1973)
  • Othmar Schoeck,Swiss composer (d.1957)
• September 5–Nell Brinkley,American illustrator, comic artist (d.1944)
• September 8–Siegfried Sassoon,British poet (d.1967)
• September 11–Khaled Chehab,2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d.1978)
• September 13–Robert Robinson,British chemist,Nobel Prizelaureate (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,English novelist, playwright, poet, theologian and critic (d.1945)
• September 24
  • Edward Bach,English metaphysician, homeopath (d.1936)
  • Roberto María Ortiz,President of Argentina(d.1942)
• September 25–Nobutake Kondō,Japanese admiral (d.1953)
• September 26–Archibald Hill,English physiologist,Nobel Prizelaureate (d.1977)
• October 3–Alain-Fournier,French writer (killed in action1914)
• October 6–Edwin Fischer,Swiss pianist, conductor (d.1960)
• October 11–Conrad Helfrich,Dutch admiral (d.1962)
• October 15–Jonas H. Ingram,American admiral (d.1952)
• October 16–David Ben-Gurion,Polish-born firstPrime Minister of Israel(d.1973)
• October 17–Spring Byington,American actress (d.1971)
• October 22–Oscar Griswold,American general (d.1959)
• October 30–Zoë Akins,American playwright, poet and author (d.1958)

November–December

Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi

Diego Rivera

Ty Cobb

• November 1–Hermann Broch,Austrian author (d.1951)
• November 2–Gheorghe Tătărescu,2-time prime minister of Romania (d.1957)
• November 6–André Marty,French Communist Partyleader (d.1956)
• November 9–Ed Wynn,American actor (d.1966)
• November 10–Walden L. Ainsworth,American admiral (d.1960)
• November 11–Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi,11thPrime Minister of Iraq(d.1969)
• November 12–Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera,Spanish prince, military aviator (d.1975)
• November 15–René Guénon,French-Egyptian author (d.1951)
• November 17–Walter Terence Stace,British philosopher (d.1967)
• November 18–Ferenc Münnich,47th Prime Minister of Hungary (d.1967)
• November 20–Karl von Frisch,Austrian zoologist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine(d.1982)
• November 26–Margaret C. Anderson,American publisher, editor (d.1973)
• December 3–Manne Siegbahn,Swedish physicist,Nobel Prizelaureate (d.1978)
• December 5–Rose Wilder Lane,American author (d.1968)
• December 8–Diego Rivera,Mexican painter (d.1957)
• December 10–Victor McLaglen,English actor, boxer (d.1959)
• December 12–Owen Moore,Irish-born American actor (d.1939)
• December 18–Ty Cobb,American baseball player and a member of theBaseball Hall of Fame(d.1961)
• December 25
  • Gotthard Heinrici,German general (d.1971)
  • Kid Ory,American jazz musician (d.1973)
• December 26–Gyula Gömbös,30th Prime Minister of Hungary (d.1936)
• December 30–Austin Osman Spare,English artist, magician (d.1956)

Unknown

• Cola Nicea,Aromanian soldier (d. unknown)

Deaths

January–June

Emily Dickinson

Ludwig II of Bavaria

• January 16–Amilcare Ponchielli,Italian composer (b.1834)
• January 18–Baldassare Verazzi,Italian painter (b.1819)
• January 26–David Rice Atchison,American politician (b.1807)
• February 9–Winfield Scott Hancock,Union general of the American Civil War, Democratic political candidate (b.1824)
• February 10–Laura Don,American actress (b.1852)
• February 12–Horatio Seymour,18thGovernor of New York,1868Democratic Partypresidential nominee (b.1810)
• February 15–Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell,British politician (b.1813)
• February 18–Dave Rudabaugh,American outlaw, gunfighter (b.1854)
• February 24–Hugh Stowell Brown,Manxpreacher (b.1823)
• March 9–William S. Clark,American chemist (b.1826)
• March 17–Pierre-Jules Hetzel,French editor, publisher (b.1814)
• April 9–Joseph Victor von Scheffel,German poet (b.1826)
• April 16–Andrew Nicholl,Northern Irish painter (b.1804)
• April 20–Louis Melsens,Belgian chemist and physicist (b.1814)
• April 27–Henry Hobson Richardson,American architect (b.1838)
• May 9–Facundo Bacardí,Cuban rum manufacturer (b.1814)
• May 15–Emily Dickinson,American poet (b.1830)
• May 17–John Deere,American inventor (b.1804)
• May 23–Leopold von Ranke,German historian (b.1795)
• June 13
  • Bernhard von Gudden,German neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (b.1824)
  • KingLudwig II of Bavaria(b.1845)
• June 19–Sir Charles Trevelyan,British civil servant and colonial administrator (b.1807)
• June 21–Daniel Dunglas Home,Scottish medium (b.1833)

July–December

Franz Liszt

Eliza Lynch

Chester A. Arthur

• July 1–Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich,German geologist (b.1806)
• July 4
  • Poundmaker,Aboriginal Canadian leader (b. c.1842)
  • Prince Arisugawa Takahito,Japanese Prince (b.1813)
• July 16–Ned Buntline(Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), American publisher, dime novelist and publicist (b.1821)
• July 25–Eliza Lynch,First Lady of Paraguay (b.1833)
• July 31–Franz Liszt,Hungarian pianist, composer (b.1811)
• August 4–Samuel J. Tilden,25thGovernor of New York,1876Democratic Partypresidential nominee (b.1814)
• August 9
  • Sir Samuel Ferguson,Northern Irish poet, artist (b.1810)
  • Bill Smith,Major League Baseballplayer (b.1865)
• 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 4–Benjamin F. Cheatham,Confederate general (b.1820)
• September 14–Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard,American land speculator (b.1802)
• September 25–Hannah T. King,British-born American writer and pioneer (b.1808)
• October 6–Edward William Godwin,English architect (b.1833)
• October 8–Austin F. Pike,American politician from New Hampshire (b.1819)
• October 9–Jean-Jacques Uhrich,French general (b.1802)
• October 10–David Levy Yulee,American politician, US Senator from Florida (b.1810)
• November 4–Sir James Martin,4th Premier of New South Wales (b.1820)
• November 18–Chester A. Arthur,21stPresident of the United States(b.1829)
• November 20–William Bliss Baker,American painter (b.1859)
• November 21–Charles Francis Adams Sr.,American historical editor, politician and diplomat (b.1807)
• December 8
  • Isaac Lea,American conchologist, geologist and publisher (b.1792)
  • William Fraser Tolmie,Scottish-Canadian scientist, politician (b.1812)
• December 16–Josef Drásal,the tallest Czech (b.1841)
• December 26–John A. Logan,American soldier, political leader (b.1826)

Date unknown

• Harriet Bates,American author (b.1856)