1886
1886 (
MDCCCLXXXVI) is a
common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar)
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January 18 - Modern
field hockey is born with the formation of
The Hockey Association in
England.
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January 29 -
Karl Benz patents the first successful
gasoline-driven
automobile.
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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.
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April 25 -
Easter occurs on latest possible date (next in
1943)
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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.
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May 4 -
Emil Berliner started working on inventing the gramophone.
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May 8 - Pharmacist Dr.
John Stith Pemberton invents a
carbonated beverage that would be named "
Coca-Cola."
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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.
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May 29 - Chemist
John Pemberton begins to advertise
Coca-Cola (ad in the
Atlanta Journal).
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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.
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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.
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June 30 -
Royal Holloway, University of London opened by
Queen Victoria in
Surrey United Kingdom.
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July 25 ?
Steve Brodie fakes a jump from the
Brooklyn Bridge*
June 13 - A
fire devastates much of
Vancouver,
British Columbia.
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August 4 ?
William Ewart Gladstone fails to secure enough support for the
Irish Home Rule in the British parliament
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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.
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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.
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September 15 - First day of school in the newly founded
Alhambra School District.
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October 7 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
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October 28 - In
New York Harbor, US President
Grover Cleveland dedicates the
Statue of Liberty.
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November 30 -
Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
* Britain annexes
Burma*
Mt. Etna erupts
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Maidenhead Citadel Band of
The Salvation Army was founded by William Thomas
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Piccadilly Circus*
William Grant & Sons founded
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Wilhelm Steinitz becomes first official World Chess Champion
* Founded
Skorenovac, village, inhabited with
Székely HungariansJanuary
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January 2 -
Florence Lawrence, Canadian-born actress (d.
1938)
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January 14 -
Hugh Lofting, English-born author (d.
1947)
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January 25 -
Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d.
1954)
February
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February 8 -
Charles Ruggles, American actor (d.
1970)
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February 27 -
Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d.
1971)
March
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March 1 -
Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist and poet (d.
1980)
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March 3 -
Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d.
1968)
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March 8 -
Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1972)
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March 11 -
Edward Rydz-Śmigły, Polish politician,
Marshal of Poland (d.
1941)
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March 15 -
Sergei Kirov, Soviet revolutionary (d.
1934)
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March 18 -
Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d.
1970)
* March 18 -
Lothar Arnauld de la Perière, German U-boat ace (d.
1941)
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March 24 -
Edward Weston, American photographer (d.
1958)
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March 25 -
Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople (d.
1972)
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March 27 -
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (d.
1969)
April
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April 14 -
Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (d.
1950)
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April 15 -
Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish
general (d.
1947)
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April 26 -
Ma Rainey, American singer (d.
1939)
May
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May 2 -
Gottfried Benn, German poet (d.
1956)
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May 3 -
Marcel Dupré, French composer (d.
1971)
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May 10 -
Karl Barth, Swiss
Protestant Theologian (d.
1968)
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May 17 - King
Alfonso XIII of Spain (d.
1941)
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May 20 -
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman (d.
1971)
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May 26 -
Al Jolson, American trumpeter (d.
1950)
June
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June 7 -
Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d.
1972)
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June 18 -
George Mallory, English climber (d.
1924)
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June 24 -
George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d.
1949)
July
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July 12 -
Jean Hersholt, Danish-born actor (d.
1956)
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July 23 -
Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d.
1976)
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July 24 -
Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (d.
1965)
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July 25 -
Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (d.
1946)
August
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August 27 -
Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist (d.
1979)
*August 27 -
Eric Coates, English composer (d.
1957)
September
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September 4 -
Albert Orsborn, the 6th General of
The Salvation Army (d.
1967)
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September 13 -
Robert Robinson, British chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1975)
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September 16 -
Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (d.
1966)
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September 20 -
Charles Williams, British author (d.
1945)
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September 26 -
Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1977)
October
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October 6 -
Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d.
1960)
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October 16 -
David Ben-Gurion, first
Prime Minister of Israel (d.
1973)
November
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November 1 -
Hermann Broch, Austrian author (d.
1951)
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November 9 -
Ed Wynn, American actor (d.
1966)
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November 15 -
René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d.
1951)
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November 20 -
Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1982)
December
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December 3 -
Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1978)
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December 5 -
Rose Wilder Lane, American author and reporter (d.
1968)
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December 8 -
Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d.
1957)
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December 12 -
Owen Moore, Irish actor (d.
1939)
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December 18 -
Ty Cobb,
Baseball Hall of Famer (d.
1961)
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December 25 -
Kid Ory, American jazz musician (d.
1973)
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Jacques Majorelle, French painter (d.
1962)
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January 17 -
Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (b.
1834)
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January 26 -
David Rice Atchison, American politician (b.
1807)
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May 15 -
Emily Dickinson, American poet (b.
1830)
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June 13 - King
Ludwig II of Bavaria (b.
1845)
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July 1 -
Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German geologist (b.
1806)
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July 31 -
Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (b.
1811)
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August 9 -
Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b.
1810)
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August 16 -
Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Indian spiritual figure (b.
1836)
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September 14 -
Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, American land speculator (b.
1802)
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November 18 -
Chester A. Arthur, 21st
President of the United States (b.
1829)
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November 22 -
William Bliss Baker, American painter (b.
1859)
Unknown dates
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Andrew Nicholl, Northern Irish painter (b.
1804)
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1886 Coin Pictures
