1886

Events from the year **1886 in the United States**.

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: Edward A. O'Neal (Democratic) (until December 1), Thomas Seay (Democratic) (starting December 1)
* Governor of Arkansas: Simon Pollard Hughes Jr. (Democratic)
* Governor of California: George Stoneman (Republican)
* Governor of Colorado: Benjamin Harrison Eaton (Republican)
* Governor of Connecticut: Henry B. Harrison (Republican)
* Governor of Delaware: Charles C. Stockley (Democratic)
* Governor of Florida: Edward A. Perry (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: Henry D. McDaniel (Democratic) (until November 9), John B. Gordon (Democratic) (starting November 9)
* Governor of Illinois: Richard J. Oglesby (Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: Isaac P. Gray (Democratic)
* Governor of Iowa: Buren R. Sherman (Republican) (until January 14), William Larrabee (Republican) (starting January 14)
* Governor of Kansas: John A. Martin (Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: J. Proctor Knott (Democratic)
* Governor of Louisiana: Samuel D. McEnery (Democratic)
* Governor of Maine: Frederick Robie (Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Henry Lloyd (Democratic)
* Governor of Massachusetts: George D. Robinson (Republican)
* Governor of Michigan: Russell Alger (Republican)
* Governor of Minnesota: Lucius F. Hubbard (Republican)
* Governor of Mississippi: Robert Lowry (Democratic)
* Governor of Missouri: John S. Marmaduke (Democratic)
* Governor of Nebraska: James W. Dawes (Republican)
* Governor of Nevada: Jewett W. Adams (Democratic)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Moody Currier (Republican)
* Governor of New Jersey: Leon Abbett (Democratic)
* Governor of New York: David B. Hill (Democratic)
* Governor of North Carolina: Alfred Moore Scales (Democratic)
* Governor of Ohio: George Hoadly (Democratic) (until January 11), Joseph B. Foraker (Republican) (starting January 11)
* Governor of Oregon: Z. F. Moody (Republican)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Robert E. Pattison (Democratic)
* Governor of Rhode Island: George P. Wetmore (Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina:
	+ until July 10: Hugh Smith Thompson (Democratic)
	+ July 10-November 30: John Calhoun Sheppard (Democratic)
	+ starting November 30: John Peter Richardson III (Democratic)
* Governor of Tennessee: William B. Bate (Democratic)
* Governor of Texas: John Ireland (Democratic)
* Governor of Vermont: Samuel E. Pingree (Republican) (until October 7), Ebenezer J. Ormsbee (Republican) (starting October 7)
* Governor of Virginia: William E. Cameron (Re-adjuster) (until January 1), Fitzhugh Lee (Democratic) (starting January 1)
* Governor of West Virginia: Emanuel Willis Wilson (Democratic)
* Governor of Wisconsin: Jeremiah McLain Rusk (Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of California: John Daggett (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Peter W. Breene (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Lorrin A. Cooke (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Florida: Milton H. Mabry (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: John Smith (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Mahlon Dickerson Manson (Democratic) (until August 3), vacant (starting August 3)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: vacant (until January 14), John A. T. Hull (Republican) (starting January 14)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Alexander P. Riddle (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James R. Hindman (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Clay Knobloch (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Oliver Ames (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Archibald Buttars (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Charles A. Gilman (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: G. D. Shands (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Albert P. Morehouse (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Hibbard H. Shedd (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Charles E. Laughton (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Edward F. Jones (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Charles M. Stedman (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: John George Warwick (Democratic) (starting January 11) Robert P. Kennedy (Republican) (starting January 11)
* Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Chauncey Forward Black (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Lucius B. Darling (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina:
	+ until July 10: John Calhoun Sheppard (Democratic)
	+ July 10-November 30: vacant
	+ starting November 30: William L. Mauldin (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Cabell R. Berry (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Z. W. Ewing (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Barnett Gibbs (Democratic) (until January 18), Thomas B. Wheeler (Democratic) (starting January 18)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Ebenezer J. Ormsbee (Republican) (until October 7), Levi K. Fuller (Republican) (starting October 7)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: John F. Lewis (Republican) (until January 1), John Edward "Parson" Massey (Democratic) (starting January 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Sam S. Fifield (Republican) (until January 3), George W. Ryland (Republican) (starting January 3)

## 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)