1886

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

Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s

Years: 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 - 1886 - 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Heads of State

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.
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 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 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.
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 25 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of Littlebighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (the soldiers destroyed all of the villager's winter food and clothing and then slashed their ponies' throats).
November 30 - Folies BergÃÂÃÂ¨re stages its first revue.

Births

January 2 - Florence Lawrence, Hollywood's first "star" (d. 1938)
January 14 - Hugh Lofting, author (d. 1947)
January 25 - Wilhelm FurtwÃÂÃÂ¤ngler, conductor (d. 1954)
February 8 - Charles Ruggles, actor (d. 1970)
February 27 - Hugo Black, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1971)
March 1 - Oskar Kokoschka, painter, graphic artist and poet (d. 1980)
March 15 - Sergei Kirov, Soviet revolutionary
March 18 - Edward Everett Horton, actor (d. 1970)
March 25 - Patriarch Athenagoras (d. 1972)
March 27 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect (d. 1969)
April 26 - Ma Rainey, blues singer (d. 1939)
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 7 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer
June 18 - George Mallory, climber lost on Mt. Everest
July 12 - Jean Hersholt - Danish born actor (d. 1956)
September 16 - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, and poet
October 6 - Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor
October 16 - David Ben-Gurion, first prime minister of Israel (d. 1973)
December 8 - Diego Rivera, painter
December 18 - Ty Cobb, baseball player
December 25 - Kid Ory, jazz musician (d. 1973)
Charles Williams - British author

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
July 1 - Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich. German geologist
July 31 - Franz Liszt
Ramakrishna Paramhansa - Indian spiritual figure

Heads of State

China - GuāngxÃÂÃÂ¹ Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
Germany - Wilhelm I, German Kaiser (1871-1888)
Holy See - Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)
Norway - Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
Ottoman Empire - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
Russia - Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1881-1894)
Spain - Alfonso XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
United States - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (1885-1889)