* 1886 – 1890: Herbert Akroyd Stuart of Halifax Yorkshire, England receives his first patent on a prototype of the hot bulb engine.

* Metropolitan Opera, New York: 12 November 1886, conducted by Anton Seidl, with Therese Herbert-Förster ( the wife of Victor Herbert ) in the title role, Carl Zobel as Radamès, Marianne Brandt as Amneris, Adolf Robinson as Amonasro, Emil Fischer as Ramfis, and Georg Sieglitz as the King.

Born June 25, 1886, in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, Arnold was the son of Dr. Herbert Alonzo Arnold ( 1857 – 1933 ), a strong-willed physician and a member of the prominent political and military Arnold Family.

Herbert and his opera singer wife, Therese Förster, moved to the U. S. in 1886 when both were engaged by the Metropolitan Opera.

Although Herbert had not been exposed to Gilbert and Sullivan before his arrival in the U. S. in 1886, their popularity led him to adopt some of their musical and dramatic sensibilities.

From 1885 – 1983, Pittenweem was part of the East Fife Parliamentary constituency, its most famous MP being Prime Minister Herbert Asquith ( Liberal ) from 1886 – 1918.

Herbert, Prince of Bismarck ( né Nicolaus Heinrich Ferdinand Herbert von Bismarck ) ( 28 December 1849 – 18 September 1904 ) was a German politician, who served as Foreign Secretary from 1886 to 1890.

Major-General Sir Herbert Taylor MacPherson VC, GCB, KCSI ( 22 January 1827 – 20 October 1886 ) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Sir John Herbert Lewis was married twice, first in 1886 to Adelaide ( d. 1895 ), daughter of Charles Hughes, publisher, Wrexham and in 1897 to Ruth, daughter of W. S. Caine, MP.

Herbert was then chosen early in 1886 to replace William Grantham, who had just been appointed a judge, in Croydon.

George Herbert ( 1886 – 1942 ) was created a Baronet in 1937.

* Herbert William Heinrich ( 1886 – 1962 ), American industrial safety engineer

Quitting this post in 1867, he undertook extensive travels, his descriptions of which appeared as Promenade au tour du monde, 1871 ( 1873 ; English translation by Lady Herbert, 1874 ) and Through the British Empire ( 1886 ).

* 1886 Herbert Edward Ryle ( 1856-1925 ) ( Also Bishop of Exeter and Winchester )

* George Herbert Leigh Mallory ( 1886 – 1924 ), British mountaineer who died attempting to climb Mount Everest

In 1886, historian William Smith Pelletreau published The History of Putnam County, New York.

Putnam ’ s Sons, 1886.

* Dawes, E. C .: Journal of Gen. Rufus Putnam kept in Northern New York during Four Campaigns of the old French and Indian War, Joel Munsell ’ s Sons, Albany, New York ( 1886 ).

In 1886, with help from a group of women in Boston, Putnam raised funds to purchase at the Serpent Mound site for preservation.

After raising sufficient funds, in 1886 Putnam returned to the same site.

Fritz married Magda, and they had two daughters: Bertha ( 1886 – 1957 ) and Barbara ( 1887 – 1972 ).

In 1905 he married Jeanne Renault ( 1886 – 1966 ) with whom he had two sons and three daughters.

She married Owen Moore ( 1886 – 1939 ), an Irish-born silent film actor, on January 7, 1911.

On February 24, 1886, at the age of thirty-nine, Edison married the 20-year-old Mina Miller ( 1866 – 1947 ) in Akron, Ohio.

Following the election, he went to London in 1886 and married his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow.

Taft married his longtime sweetheart, Helen Herron, in Cincinnati in 1886.

* Mary Ellen, ( 1856 – 1908 ) who married the mathematician and author Charles Howard Hinton and had four children: George ( 1882 – 1943 ), Eric (* 1884 ), William ( 1886 – 1909 ) and Sebastian ( 1887 – 1923 ) inventor of the Jungle gym.

The future General Patton married Beatrice Banning Ayer ( January 12, 1886 – September 30, 1953 ), the daughter of wealthy textile baron Frederick Ayer, on May 26, 1910.

She died in 1886, and in 1889 he married Mary W. Clymer.

In 1886 Geneviève married Émile Straus, a rich lawyer ; she became a famous Parisian society hostess and a close friend of, among others, Marcel Proust.

After the death of his wife, he married Louise Wakeman Knox ( 1851 – 1904 ) on November 9, 1886.

The first popular male impersonator in U. S. theater was Annie Hindle, who started performing in New York in 1867 ; in 1886 she married her dresser, Annie Ryan.

His parents were married in 1886.

The couple had two daughters: Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, born 20 November 1860, who married Maurice Lippmann and was the mother of Serge Napoléon Lippmann ( 1886 – 1975 ) and Auguste Alexandre Lippmann ( 1881 – 1960 ); and Jeanine Dumas ( 3 May 1867 – 1943 ), who married Ernest d ' Hauterive ( 1864 – 1957 ), son of George Lecourt d ' Hauterive and his wife Léontine de Leusse.

In 1886, Lorenzo Snow said that brothers and sisters should be able to get married.

In 1886, at age 42, Slocum married his 24-year-old cousin, Henrietta " Hettie " Elliott.

In 1916 he married Gerda Paula Serlachius ( 1886 – 1984 ).

Her parents were married on April 26, 1886 in Platte City, Platte County, Missouri.

In 1886, he married Haruji, the eldest daughter of Iwasaki Yatarō, the president of Mitsubishi.

He married Carlota de Guzmán-Blanco y de Ybarra ( Caracas, 1869-Courbevoie, 1939 ) in 1886 in Paris and had three children:

In 1826, shortly after the death of his father, Meyerbeer married his cousin, Minna Mosson ( 1804 – 1886 ).

She married three times: firstly, in 1879, to Frederick Gustavus Burnaby ( 1842 – 1885 ); secondly, in 1886, to John Frederick Main ( died 1892 ); and thirdly, in 1900, to Francis Bernard Aubrey Le Blond.

The couple had six children: Julia Romana Howe ( 1844 – 1886 ) married Michael Anagnos, a Greek scholar who succeeded Dr. Howe as director of the Perkins Institute ; Florence Marion Howe ( 1845 – 1922 ), an author, she wrote a well-known treatise on manners and was married to lawyer David Prescott Hall ; Henry Marion Howe ( 1848 – 1922 ), a metallurgist who lived in New York ; Laura Elizabeth Howe ( 1850 – 1943 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to Henry Richards and lived in Maine ; Maud Howe ( 1855 – 1948 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to an English muralist and illustrator, John Elliott ; Samuel Gridley Howe, Jr. ( 1858 – 1863 ).