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1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1886 - 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 ? Compl ...

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1886: Encyclopedia - 1886

1886

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

Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S.

Rail Transport - Science - Sports

Births - Deaths

1886 - 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 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.
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 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.
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
Etna erupts
Piccadilly Circus
William Grant & Sons founded
Wilhelm Steinitz becomes first official World Chess Champion

1886 - Births

1886 - January-April

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 ? - Linfield fc are formed in belfast
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 15 - Sergei Kirov, Soviet revolutionary (d. 1934)
March 18 - Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970)
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. 1950)
April 26 - Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)

1886 - May-December

May 2 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (d. 1956)
May 3 - Marcel Dupré, French composer (d. 1971)
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 Coanda, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
June 18 - George Mallory, English climber (d. 1924)
July 12 - Jean Hersholt, Danish-born actor (d. 1956)
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)
August 27 - Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
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 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)