1886 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1886?
- January 18, 1886 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
- January 29, 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
- February 23, 1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister Julia Brainerd Hall.
- March 27, 1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
- March 29, 1886 – Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
- April 8, 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
- May 1, 1886 – Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day culminating in the Haymarket Affair.
- May 4, 1886 – Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
- May 5, 1886 – The Bay View Tragedy: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing seven.
- May 8, 1886 – Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named “Coca-Cola” as a patent medicine.
- May 29, 1886 – Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
- June 13, 1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
- June 30, 1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
- July 3, 1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.
- July 4, 1886 – The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
- August 31, 1886 – An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
- October 28, 1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- October 29, 1886 – The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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