1886 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1886?
- 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 1, 1886 – The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
- March 7, 1886 – The City of Lábrea in Amazonas, Brazil is founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Lábrea.
- 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 29, 1886 – Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
- June 2, 1886 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
- June 13, 1886 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM.
- 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 – The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
- 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.
- September 4, 1886 – Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
- September 9, 1886 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
- October 28, 1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- November 27, 1886 – German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for “Effi Briest”, a classic work of German literature.
- November 30, 1886 – The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
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