1886

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

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 August 2.9 September 2.10 October 2.11 November 2.12 December 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown dates 4 External links

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.
• 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
• Boils erupt
• 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

Births

January

• 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

• February 8 - Charles Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970)
• February 27 - Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)

March

• March 1 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist and poet (d. 1980)
• 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)
• March 18 - 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• August 27 - Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
• August 27 - Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)

September

• 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

• October 6 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
• October 16 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)

November

• 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

• 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)
• May 15 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
• 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

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