1886

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

Years:
1883 1884 1885 - 1886 - 1887 1889 1889

Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s

Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

2.1 January
2.2 February
2.3 March
2.4 April
2.5 May
2.6 June
2.7 July
2.8 September
2.9 October
2.10 November
2.11 December

3 Deaths

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.
March 17 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
March 19 ? Complete darkness for 10 minutes in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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 Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be named "Coca-Cola."
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.
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.
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 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.
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
Etna erupts
Piccadilly Circus

Births

April

April 26 - Ma Rainey, blues singer (d. 1939)

May

May 17 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain
May 20 - John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman (d. 1971)
May 26 - Al Jolson (d. 1950)

June

June 7 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer
June 18 - George Mallory, climber lost on Mt. Everest

July

July 12 - Jean Hersholt - Danish born actor (d. 1956)

September

September 16 - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, and poet

October

October 6 - Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor
October 16 - David Ben-Gurion, first prime minister of Israel (d. 1973)

November

November 1 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d. 1951)

December

December 5 - Rose Wilder Lane, author, reporter (d. 1968)
December 8 - Diego Rivera, painter
December 12 - Owen Moore, actor (d. 1939)
December 18 - Ty Cobb, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1961)
December 25 - Kid Ory, jazz musician (d. 1973)
Charles Williams - British author
Jacques Majorelle - French painter (d. 1962)

Deaths

January 17 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer
January 26 - David Rice Atchison, American politician
May 15 - Emily Dickinson, poet
June 13 - King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
July 1 - Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich. German geologist
July 31 - Franz Liszt
August 16 - Ramakrishna Paramhansa - Indian spiritual figure
September 14 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard

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