1886

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

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 16 - A resolution is passed in the German parliament, to condemn the Prussian deportations, initiated by Otto von Bismarck and politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia.
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 train load of oranges left Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.
March - Linfield F.C. is formed in Belfast
March 3 - The Treaty of Bucharest ends the Serbo-Bulgarian War in the Balkans.
March 16 - Law establishing the Kiel Canal is adopted.
March 17 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
March 29 - Wilhelm Steinitz becomes first recognized World Chess Champion.

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 15 - Portugal and France agree to regulate the borders of their colonies in Guinea.
May 17 - Motherwell Football Club formed
- The US Supreme Court rules on Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co., granting corporations the same rights as living persons.
- 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.

July 9 - Charles Hall files a patent for his process of turning Aluminium Oxide into molten Aluminium.
July 23 - Steve Brodie fakes a jump from the Brooklyn Bridge.
August 20 - A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas
August 31 - Earthquake hits Charlestown, South Carolina USA. Probably between 7.3-7.6 on the Richter Scale. 40,000 left homeless.
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.
September 21 - William Stanley, Jr. patents the first practical alternating current transformer device, the induction coil.

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.