page_title: 1886
section_title: January–March
hierarchical_section_title: 1886 / Events / January–March
context_page_description: 1886 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1886th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 886th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1886, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885.
  January 5–9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is published in New York and London.
  January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck.
  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, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885).
  February 6–9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington.
  February 14 – The first train load of oranges leaves Los Angeles via the United States transcontinental railroad.
  March 3 – The Treaty of Bucharest ends the Serbo-Bulgarian War in the Balkans.
  March 16 – A law establishing the Kiel Canal is adopted in the German Empire.
  March 17 – Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
  March 29 – Wilhelm Steinitz becomes the first recognized World Chess Champion.
caption: January 29 –Karl Benz patent.
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