The artist was born in Gilbert Mills, New York, in 1886, and until two years ago when he and his wife moved to California, he lived in western New York, in Batavia.

The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

Cofounder Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.

In 1886, a monument to Alexander III was erected at the approximate location of his death in Kinghorn.

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

The first complete synthesis of an alkaloid was achieved in 1886 by the German chemist Albert Ladenburg.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

Aron Nimzowitsch ( or Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich, or Aaron Nimzovich ) (, ; born Aron Niemzowitsch ) ( 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935 ) was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess master and a very influential chess writer.

A peace treaty was signed in Bucharest on 19 February 1886.

It was not until 1886 that the stolen base appeared as something to be tracked, but was only to " appear in the summary of the game ".

Irish nationalist reaction was mixed, Unionist opinion was hostile, and the election addresses during the 1886 election revealed English radicals to be against the bill also.

The result was a catastrophic split in the Liberal Party, and heavy defeat in the 1886 election at the hands of Lord Salisbury.

The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company and after the 1986 merger with Sperry Univac was renamed as Unisys.

In 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).

In 1886, José Manuel Balmaceda was elected president.

In 1863 the name of the Republic was changed officially to " United States of Colombia ", and in 1886 the country adopted its present name: " Republic of Colombia ".

Although the system established by the Sitges agreement was phased out by 1974, the 1886 Colombian constitution — in effect until 1991 — required that the losing political party be given adequate and equitable participation in the government which, according to many observers and later analysis, eventually resulted in some increase in corruption and legal relaxation.

As early as 1886 he saw that logical operations could be carried out by electrical switching circuits ; the same idea as was used decades later to produce digital computers.

Of particular note, was Ranelagh House, Fulham's palatial home from 1886 – 1888.

Nearly two decades later, in 1886, Clemens Winkler found the new element along with silver and sulfur, in a rare mineral called argyrodite.

The Republic of Colombia ( 1819 – 1830 ) or ‘ Gran Colombia ’ as it began to be called only after 1886, more or less corresponded in territory to the old colonial administrative district called the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( 1717 – 1819 ).

Bradford released another volume in 1886 called Harriet, the Moses of her People, which presented a less caustic view of slavery and the South.

The first edition of Psychopathia Sexualis ( 1886 ) presented four categories of what Krafft-Ebing called " cerebral neuroses ":

It was immediately adopted by the French military for their Mle 1886 infantry rifle and called " Poudre B ".

The rapid increase in the number of convictions for public drunkenness was more a reflection of the growing population rather than social deterioration. In 1886, a national body called the New Zealand Alliance for Suppression and Abolition of the Liquor Traffic was formed, pushing for control of the liquor trade as a democratic right.

In 1886 the canal was sold to a miller called Edward Press for £ 600, but the principal clerk absconded with most of the money and it was never recovered.

The first embryonic world parliament, called the Inter-Parliamentary Union, was organized in 1886 by Cremer and Passy, composed of legislators from many countries.

* Pleasant Valley War ( also sometimes called the Tonto Basin War or Feud ) was an 1886 Arizona range war between two feuding families, the cattle-herding Grahams and the sheep-herding Tewksburys.

The fruit orchards become so prevalent that in 1886, the San Jose Board of Trade called Santa Clara County the " Garden of the World ".

The Lincoln Train Depot, originally called the " West Harrisville Depot ", was built in 1886 by the Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad, a predecessor to the Detroit and Mackinac Railway.

* COMET Captain Pentecost Mitchell found ore here and an exploration called the ECLlPSE was developed from 1886 to 1890.

In 1886 Architect Charles C. Haight designed a notable large Tudor style home called Westbrook.

The company was called the Trenton Rock Oil Company, and by 1886, had 250 wells from Lima to St. Marys, Ohio, and west to Indiana.

By 1900, Chester Atwood had increased his land holdings and his family included wife Patsy Ann ( familiarly called Mattie ), daughters Ottie ( b. 1883 ) and Arrie ( b. 1886 ), son Bennie ( b. 1887 ), daughter Allie ( b. 1889 ), son Coleman ( b. 1891 ), and daughters Lizzie ( b. 1893 ) and Ambrozia ( b. 1895 ).

Two earlier communities, Marcelina and Home Valley, had been located in the vicinity in the 1850s and 1860s, but people were not induced to settle the area until 1886, when the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway built a switch and depot called Brackenridge, named after railroad benefactor George W. Brackenridge.

The town had originally been called Montvale, but a change was made in 1886 when an application for s post office was made.

In 1886, when the jetty was finished, the structure was converted into a hotel and called the Tarpon Inn.

Incorporated in 1886, the town of Claremont became the eastern terminus of the new Atlantic and Danville Railway ( A & D ), a narrow gauge railroad, which was completed to a point near Emporia called James River Junction, where it connected with a standard gauge track towards Danville.

They were long placed at or near the beginning of the songbirds or oscines ( now often called Passeri ), just after the suboscines and before the swallows, for example in the American Ornithologists ' Union's first check-list ( American Ornithologists ' Union 1886, according to Patterson 2002 ).

Cody brought his " Wild West Show " to an area of Mariners Harbor called Erastina ( named for Staten Island promoter Erastus Wiman ) for two seasons from June to October in 1886 and again in 1887.

His principal works include, " The Boy " ( 1885 ); " Cain " ( 1886 ), later destroyed ; " Brotherly Love ," sometimes called " Two Friends " ( 1887 ); the allegorical " Two Natures " ( 1894, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York ); " The Hewer " ( 1902, at Cairo, Illinois ); " Great God Pan " Dodge Hall quadrangle, Columbia University campus, New York City ; the " Rose Maiden "; the simple and graceful " Maidenhood ".

He then devoted himself to fiction, beginning with a collection of naturalistic short stories called Im Zwielicht (" At Twilight ", 1886 ), and the novels Frau Sorge (" Dame Care ", 1887 ), Geschwister (" Siblings ", 1888 ) and Der Katzensteg (" Cats ' Bridge ", 1890 ).