1886

Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years:	1883 1884 1885 - 1886 - 1887 1888 1889

1886 in topic:
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Countries: Australia - Canada -
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Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
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[edit] Events of 1886

January 1 - Burma was presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift, after the country was annexed into British India in November, 1885.
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.

May 8: Coca-Cola invented.

April 4 - William Ewart Gladstone introduces the First Irish Home Rule Bill in the British parliament. It was defeated on June 8.
April 25 - Easter occurs on latest possible date (next in 1943).
May 1 - A general strike begins 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 US Supreme Court rules on Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co., granting corporations the same rights as living persons.
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 13 - A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
June 30 - Royal Holloway, University of London opened by Queen Victoria in Surrey United Kingdom.

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.
December 11 - Dial Square FC, a football club from Woolwich, London that will eventually become known as Arsenal FC, play their first match, a 6-0 win over Eastern Wanderers.

Maidenhead Citadel Band of The Salvation Army is founded by William Thomas.
Scotch whiskey distiller William Grant & Sons is founded.
Wilhelm Steinitz becomes first official World Chess Champion.
The village of Skorenovac is founded mostly by Székely Hungarians.
An inexpensive method for refining aluminum, the Hall-Héroult process, is discovered.
Father Augustine Tolton, the first Roman Catholic priest from the United States to proclaim himself African American, was ordained in Rome.