1886 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1886?
- January 29, 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
- March 1, 1886 – The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
- 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.
- 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 5, 1886 – The Bay View Tragedy: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing seven.
- 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 10, 1886 – Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
- June 13, 1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
- July 3, 1886 – The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
- July 4, 1886 – The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
- 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 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 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.
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