1886

Events 
 February 6 – A large demonstration about unemployment at Trafalgar Square led to riots at Pall Mall
 March 1 - Anglo-Chinese School was founded in Singapore by Bishop William Oldham.
 April 6 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada becomes a city.
 October 4 – Johannesburg, South Africa was founded.
 October 28 – France gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States

 Births 
 January 1 – Garegin Njdeh, Armenian politician (d. 1955)
 January 30 – Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, Spanish writer (d. 1950)
 March 18 - Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970)
 April 26 – Gabdulla Tukay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
 May 3 – Marcel Dupré, French composer (d. 1971)
September 13 - Alain LeRoy Locke, American writer (d. 1954)
 October 16 – David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel(d. 1973)
   October 16   – Armin T. Wegner, German writer and polictical activist (d. 1978)
 December 8 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957)

 Deaths 
 May 15 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
 July 31 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)
 November 18 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)

 Books 
 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
 Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett