In history, year 1886 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1886.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 29 january | German engine designer and engineer Karl Benz filed a patent for the Motorwagen, the first purpose-built, gasoline-driven automobile. |
| 08 april | British Prime Minister William Gladstone introduced the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons. |
| 04 may | An unknown assailant threw a bomb into a crowd of police, turning a peaceful labor rally in Chicago into the Haymarket massacre, which resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and many by standers. |
| 08 may | In Atlanta, American pharmacist John Pemberton first sold his carbonated beverage Coca-Cola as a patent medicine, claiming that it cured a number of diseases. |
| 25 may | Rashbehari Bose was born. He Rashbehari Bose was a revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India and was one of the key organizers of the Ghadar Revolution and later, the Indian National Army. He earned degrees in the medical sciences as well as in Engineering from France and Germany. |
| 02 june | Grover Cleveland became the only U.S. President to marry in theWhite House when he wed Frances Folsom. |
| 13 june | King Ludwig II of Bavaria was found dead in Lake Starnberg nearMunich under mysterious circumstances. |
| 26 june | French chemist Henri Moissan reported he was able tosuccessfully isolate elemental fluorine, for which he later won theNobel Prize in Chemistry. |
| 04 september | After over 25 years of fighting against the United States Armyand the armed forces of Mexico, Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apachesurrendered at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona. |
| 28 october | In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicatedthe Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, to commemorate the centennialof the Declaration of Independence. |
| 29 october | In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicatedthe Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, to commemorate the centennialof the Declaration of Independence. |
| 11 december | The London-based football club Arsenal, then known as DialSquare, played their first match on the Isle of Dogs. |
| 01 May | The workers' unions of the United States had called for a strike not to keep the work hours longer than 8 hours. Since then, International Workers' Day began to be celebrated all over the world. |
| 03 June | 24 Christians were burnt alive in Namagongo, Uganda. |
| 13 June | About 1,000 buildings were gutted by fire in the city of Vancouver, Canada. |
| 03 July | The New York Tribune became the first newspaper to use a printing machine. |
| 04 July | Canada's first intercontinental train reached Port Moody, British Columbia. |
| 28 October | France presented the Statue of Liberty to America as a symbol of friendship. |
| 03 August | Mathalisharan Gupta, a poet of classical compositions like Panchavati, Yashodhara, Saket, was born on this day in Chirgaon, Jhansi. |
| 04 August | Colombia passed the country's constitution to this day. |
| 16 August | Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Dev, the great saint and thinker died. |
| 29 January | Karl Benz patented the first successful car powered by gasoline energy. |
| 23 February | American chemist and inventor Martin Hale discovered aluminum. |
| 06 March | The first nurses nightingale was published. |
| 01 April | In the US, a strike was organized to schedule time for workers, after which May 01 was declared as International Labor Day. |
| 18 January | The Hockey Association was formed in England. |
| 23 February | The London Times began publishing the world's first classified advertisement. |
| 01 March | The Anglo-Chinese school in Singapore was founded by Bishop William Oldham. |
| 08 April | William Evert Gladstone of the Commons introduced the first Irish self-government bill in the British House. |
| 08 May | American pharmacist Dr. John Pemberton made a carbonated drink named Coca Cola. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 01 May | Gottfried Benn / Poet / Germany |
| 01 December | Rex Stout / Novelist / United States of America |
| 03 January | Arthur Mailey / Cricketer / Australia |
| 06 December | Joyce Kilmer / Author / United States of America |
| 07 June | Henri Coandă / Engineer / Romania |
| 08 September | Siegfried Sassoon / Journalist / United Kingdom |
| 08 March | Edward Calvin Kendall / Academic / United States of America |
| 09 December | Clarence Birdseye / Business Man / United States of America |
| 12 May | Ernst A. Lehmann / Pilot / Germany |
| 13 March | Home Run Baker / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 13 March | Albert William Stevens / Photographer / United States of America |
| 18 March | Edward Everett Horton / Actor / United States of America |
| 20 November | Robert Hunter / Golfer / United States of America |
| 20 November | Karl von Frisch / Zoologist / Germany |
| 23 March | Frank Irons / Jumper / United States of America |
| 25 October | Leo G. Carroll / Actor / United States of America |
| 27 February | Hugo Black / Jurist / United States of America |
| 27 June | Charlie Macartney / Cricketer / Australia |
| 29 December | Norman Hallows / Runner / United Kingdom |
| 30 May | Randolph Bourne / Author / United States of America |