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1886
(
MDCCCLXXXVI
) is a
common year starting on Friday
(click on link to calendar)
1886
Events
January - March
April - June
July - September
October - December
Deaths
Unknown dates
top
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
orange
s left
Los Angeles
via the
transcontinental railroad
.
March ? -
Linfield F.C.
is formed in
Belfast
March 17
-
Carrollton Massacre
: 20
African American
s 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.
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.
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
top
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
)
top
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 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
)
top
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 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
)
top
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 Fame
r (d.
1961
)
December 25
-
Kid Ory
, American jazz musician (d.
1973
)
Jacques Majorelle
, French painter (d.
1962
)
top
Deaths
January 17
-
Amilcare Ponchielli
, Italian composer (b.
1834
)
January 26
-
David Rice Atchison
, American politician (b.
1807
)
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
)
top
Unknown dates
Andrew Nicholl
, Northern Irish painter (b.
1804
)
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