1886 Calendar
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1886 Historical Event(s)
January 18, 1886
– Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
January 29, 1886
– Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
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 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 10, 1886
– Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
July 3, 1886
– Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.
July 4, 1886
– The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
Who Were Born On 1886?
April 26, 1886
– Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
May 2, 1886
– Gottfried Benn, German author (d. 1956)
June 18, 1886
– George Mallory, English mountaineer (d. 1924)
June 29, 1886
– Robert Schuman, French politician (d. 1963)
July 19, 1886
– Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (d. 1957)
July 25, 1886
– Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
September 14, 1886
– Jan Masaryk, Czech foreign minister and diplomat (d. 1948)
November 12, 1886
– Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
December 1, 1886
– Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)
December 6, 1886
– Joyce Kilmer, American poet (d. 1918)