1886

1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) 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 (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) 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.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1850s  1860s  1870s  – 1880s –  1890s  1900s  1910s
Years:	1883 1884 1885 – 1886 – 1887 1888 1889

1886 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1886 MDCCCLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2639
Armenian calendar	1335 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԵ
Assyrian calendar	6636
Bahá'í calendar	42–43
Balinese saka calendar	1807–1808
Bengali calendar	1293
Berber calendar	2836
British Regnal year	49 Vict. 1 – 50 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2430
Burmese calendar	1248
Byzantine calendar	7394–7395
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4582 or 4522     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4583 or 4523
Coptic calendar	1602–1603
Discordian calendar	3052
Ethiopian calendar	1878–1879
Hebrew calendar	5646–5647
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1942–1943
- Shaka Samvat	1807–1808
- Kali Yuga	4986–4987
Holocene calendar	11886
Igbo calendar	886–887
Iranian calendar	1264–1265
Islamic calendar	1303–1304
Japanese calendar	Meiji 19 (明治１９年)
Javanese calendar	1815–1816
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4219
Minguo calendar	26 before ROC 民前26年
Nanakshahi calendar	418
Thai solar calendar	2428–2429
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Bird) 2012 or 1631 or 859     — to — མེ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dog) 2013 or 1632 or 860

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