1886

Events from the year 1886 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Grover Cleveland (D-NY)
* Vice President: vacant
* Chief Justice: Morrison Waite (OH)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: John G. Carlisle (D-KY)
* Congress: 49th
==Events==
* February 6 – Seattle riot of 1886 begins: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington.
* February 9 – Seattle riot of 1886 begins ends.
* February 14 – The first train load of oranges leaves Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.
* March 17 – Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
* April 24 – Father Augustine Tolton, the first Roman Catholic priest from the U.S. to identify himself publicly as African American, is ordained in Rome.
* May 1 – A general strike begins in the United States, which escalates on May 4 into the Haymarket affair in Chicago and eventually wins the eight-hour workday in the U.S.
* May 8 – Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that will be named 'Coca-Cola'.
* May 17 – Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that corporations have the same rights as living persons.
* May 29 – Pharmacist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (advertisement in the Atlanta Journal).
* June 2 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
* June 9 – The centennial of the Stoughton Musical Society is celebrated.
* July 23 – Steve Brodie is reported to have made a jump from the Brooklyn Bridge, a claim subsequently disputed.
* August 20 – A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas.
* August 31 – The 6.9–7.3 Mw Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people are killed and damage is estimated at $5–6 million.
* 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.
* October 28 – In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
==Sport==
* October 23 - American Association's St. Louis Browns win the First (Unofficial) 1886 World Series by defeating the National League's Chicago White Stockings 4 games to 2. Final game was played at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Missouri.
==Memoriam==
* January 13 – Thomas Wakeman, founded the first Sioux Indian YMCA (aged 40; Redwood Falls, MN, USA)
* January 22 – James T. Farley, U.S. Senator from California from 1879 to 1885 (aged 56; Jackson, CA, USA)
* January 26 – David Rice Atchison, U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1844 to 1855 (aged 78; Gower, MO, USA)
* February 2 – David Hunter, Union Army general (aged 83; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 9 – Winfield Scott Hancock, Civil War Union general and political candidate (aged 61; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 12 – Horatio Seymour, 18th Governor of New York, Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in the presidential election of 1868 (aged 75; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 8 – John Franklin Miller, U.S. Senator from California from 1881 to 1886 (aged 54; Washington, DC, USA)
* March 9 – Jerome B. Chaffee, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1879 (aged 60; North Salem, NY, USA)
* March 13 – Austin Flint I, co-founder of Buffalo Medical College and president of the American Medical Association (aged 73; New York City, NY, USA)
* April 3 – Arthur Pember, journalist, first president of The Football Association (aged 51; LaMoure, Dakota Territory (Now ND), USA)
* April 27
** Reynell Coates, physician, scientist, teacher, and poet (aged 83; Camden, NJ, USA)
** Henry Hobson Richardson, architect (aged 47; Brookline, MA, USA)
* May 15 – Emily Dickinson, poet (aged 55; Amherst, MA, USA)
* May 17 – John Deere, inventor (aged 82; Moline, IL, USA)
* May 21 – Stephen Pearl Andrews, anarchist and proponent of pantarchy (aged 74; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 26 – David Davis, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1877 to 1883 (aged 71; Bloomington, IL, USA)
* July 16 – Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr.), publisher, dime novelist and publicist (aged 65; Stamford, NY, USA)
* August 4 – Samuel J. Tilden, 25th Governor of New York from 1875 to 1876 and 1876 Democratic presidential candidate (aged 72; Yonkers, NY, USA)
* August 5 – Robert Allen, Union army brigadier general (aged 75; Switzerland)
* August 10 – John W. Stevenson, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1871 to 1877 (aged 74; Covington, KY, USA)
* August 30 – Ferris Jacobs Jr., politician (aged 50; White Plains, NY, USA)
* October 10 – David Levy Yulee, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1845 to 1851 and from 1855 to 1861 (aged 76; New York City, NY, USA)
* November 18 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States from 1881 to 1885, 20th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1881 (aged 57; New York City, NY, USA)
* November 21 – Charles Francis Adams Sr., United States Minister to the United Kingdom, son of John Quincy Adams (aged 79; Boston, MA, USA)
* December 26 – John A. Logan, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1871 to 1877 (aged 60; Washington, DC, USA)
==External links==
* 1886 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 11