1886 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1886?
- January 29, 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
- March 7, 1886 – The City of Lábrea in Amazonas, Brazil is founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Lábrea.
- 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 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 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 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.
- July 4, 1886 – The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
- 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.
- 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.
- November 1, 1886 – Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established with 37 students.
- 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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