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

• 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 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[?]).
• October 28 - Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Births

• January 2 - Florence Lawrence, Hollywood's first "star" (+ 1938)
• January 14 - Hugh Lofting, author (+ 1947)
• January 25 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor
• February 8 - Charles Ruggles[?], actor (+ 1970)
• February 27 - Hugo Black, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (+ 1971)
• March 1 - Oskar Kokoschka, painter, graphic artist and poet (+ 1980)
• March 15 - Sergei Kirov, Soviet revolutionary
• March 18 - Edward Everett Horton, actor (+ 1970)
• March 25 - Patriarch Athenagoras (+ 1972)
• March 27 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect (+ 1969)
• April 26 - Ma Rainey, blues singer
• May 17 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain
• May 26 - Al Jolson (+ 1950)
• June 7 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer
• July 12 - Jean Hersholt - Danish born actor (+ 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
• December 8 - Diego Rivera, painter
• December 18 - Ty Cobb, baseball player
• Charles Williams, British author

Deaths

• January 17 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer
• May 15 - Emily Dickinson, poet
• Franz Liszt