The Fizeau experiment and its 1886 repetition by Michelson and Morley apparently confirmed the stationary aether with partial aether dragging, and refuted complete aether dragging.

For example, one year before their famous experiment of 1887, Michelson and Morley ( 1886 ) performed a repeat of the Fizeau experiment of 1851, replacing Fizeau's setup with an even-reflection Sagnac interferometer of such high stability, that even placing a lighted match in the light path did not cause artifactual fringe displacement.

Sonya (" Sophia ") Adler ( died 1886 ), born Sonya Oberlander, early stage name Sonya Michelson, was one of the first women to perform in Yiddish theater in Imperial Russia.

To check Fresnel's theory again, Michelson and Edward Morley ( 1886 ) performed a repetition of the Fizeau experiment.

* Arnold Morley 1886

* Samuel Morley ( MP ) ( 1809 – 1886 ), British Member of Parliament and philanthropist

Walter Morley Aseltine, PC, QC ( September 3, 1886 in Napanee, Ontario – November 14, 1971 ) was a Canadian parliamentarian.

This service was successfully challenged by the post office in 1886.

He successfully ran again in 1884 and was re-elected in 1886, serving from 1885 to 1889.

In 1885, Wharton successfully bid a contract with the United States Navy for forged steel armor, and in 1886 he visited England ( Whitworth Co .) and France ( Schneider Co .) to research the designs for a plant to forge steel of higher quality.

New national principles were composed and mailed out to the entire readership of Western Rural and a 5th Convention was successfully held in November 1886.

The political activists successfully lobbied for passage of a set of political demands that included support of the Knights of Labor and the Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886.

Dougherty's discovery was confirmed by Captain Keates of the Louise in 1860, giving its coordinates as, and by Captain Stannard of the Cingalese 1886, giving the location as.

After he survived typhoid and yellow fever, Sternberg documented the cause of malaria ( 1881 ), discovered the cause of lobar pneumonia ( 1881 ), and confirmed the roles of the bacilli of tuberculosis and typhoid fever ( 1886 ).

As such, his reputation was further confirmed by The Black Poodle ( 1884 ), The Tinted Venus ( 1885 ), A Fallen Idol ( 1886 ), and other works.

The Hawke's Bay County Council confirmed the petition and the Town District of Taradale was proclaimed on the second day of December 1886.

The Treaty of Bucharest 1886 effectively confirmed the unification of Bulgaria.

After a protest by Limavady in 1886 the result was confirmed, but medals were withheld from both teams in spite of a challenge in the High Court by a Distillery player.

A suggestion from 1886 that the Shompen call themselves Shab Daw ' a has not been confirmed by modern research.

Microbial cellulose was first confirmed as cellulose in 1886.

They also considered a skull, YPM 1887, in 1886 referred to C. amplus by Marsh, later confirmed by Gilmore, to belong to C. dispar as well.

They at first disputed this claim vigorously and even tried to cast aspersions on Guyot's reputation, but by 1886 his results had been confirmed by others and the North-South lake region had lost some of its cachet.

But by 1886 other surveyors had confirmed Guyot's results, and the North-South Lake area was no longer the heart of the Catskills.

* Tex Austin ( 1886 – 1938 ), American rodeo promoter

* Austin Osman Spare ( 1886 – 1956 ), English artist and magician

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

* 1886 – Athenagoras I, Greek religious leader, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )

* 1886 – Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad state ( d. 1967 )

* 1886 – Walter Edward Dandy, American neurosurgeon and scientist ( d. 1946 )

* 1823 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright ( d. 1886 )

* 1886 – Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist ( d. 1979 )

* 1886 – Eric Coates, English composer and viola player ( d. 1957 )

* 1886 – Edward Ballantine, American composer ( d. 1971 )

* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1886 – Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet ( d. 1964 )

Prominent leaders include co-founders Lucien Febvre ( 1878 – 1956 ) and Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ).

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.

Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.

* 1886 – Ernst Thälmann, German politician ( d. 1944 )

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

Evidently as a result of his becoming familiar with the New Testament during his twenties, he asked to be baptized into the Lutheran Church in 1886.

Enterprise was platted in 1886, and received its name as the result of a vote at a community meeting held in a tent owned by a mercantile company in 1887.

Gladstone hoped to repeat his triumph of 1868, when he had won a General Election on the topic of Irish Disestablishment ( which had been a major cause of dispute between Conservatives and Liberals since the 1830s ), but the result of the July 1886 general election was Liberal defeat.

The result was the self-published novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab ( 1886 ), which became a great success.

With the defeat of his bill he dissolved parliament and called an election for July 1886, the result swinging in the other direction, Conservatives and Liberal Unionists between them winning a clear majority.

The canal was sold to the Marquess of Bute in 1885, who made some improvements at the Cardiff end, but six railway companies were serving Merthyr by 1886, all competing for traffic, and the upper sections, particularly the pound at Aberfan, was suffering from severe subsidence as a result of the coal mining.

Yet another result of these failures to modernize, is that outdated Lebel rifles-many of which had since been modified into a carbine-length version, the " Mle 1886 M93R35 "-were still in the hands of second line troops at the outbreak of World War II.

One theme is its assessment as a " personality ", as a result of an 1886 case in the United States Supreme Court in which a statement by Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite led to corporations as " persons " having the same rights as human beings, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Quaker brothers Thomas Pim and Robert Goodbody decided to relocate Goodbody Tabacco manufacturing to Greenville near Harolds Cross after a disastrous fire in their Tullamore premises in 1886 ; as a result most of their employees were also relocated to the area, where red brick terrace housing were built in the area by the Dublin Artizans ' Dwellings Company, in which the Pim family were prominent members.

As a result of his field research, a map of his work was published in 1886 covering the Canadian Rockies from the US border to Red Deer Valley and Kicking Horse Pass.

The result of his own investigations in prose was titled Segerssvärdet 1882, ( The Sword of Victory ), followed by two volumes of mythic studies titled Undersökningar i germanisk mythologi, första delen, 1886 ( Investigations into Germanic Mythology, Volume 1 ); and Undersökningar i germanisk mythologi, andre delen, ( Investigations into Germanic Mythology, Volume 2 ) 1889 as well as a children's version of Norse mythology in 1887 titled Fädernas gudasaga ( Our Fathers ' Godsaga ).

As a result, when the General Assembly convened in Richmond, Virginia, in 1886, they voted to appropriate $ 10, 000 to erect a home for the family of their founder.

After graduating in 1886, Wölfflin published the result of two years ' travel and study in Italy, as his Renaissance und Barock ( 1888 ), the book that celebrated the pathological " Baroque " as a stylistic category and a serious area of study.

The Philos and their rivals, the Hermesians, were the result in a split in the college's original literary society, the Adelphian Circle, formed in 1886.

The Imperial Institute, as it was first known, was established in 1887 as a result of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 by the governments of the United Kingdom and several countries of the British Empire to promote research which would benefit the empire.

Sir William MacGregor, the Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea, noted in 1886 that the population was nearly extinct as a result of these raids.

As a result of his efforts, Nathaniel E. Harris was elected and served as the President of Georgia Tech's Board of Trustees from 1886 until his death in 1929.

The club was founded in 1886, as a result being listed as one of the oldest football clubs in Spain.

Verneuil began working on the synthesis of rubies by flame fusion as far back as 1886 and came to a result within six years, depositing his sealed notes at the Paris Academy of Science in 1891 and 1892, but only announcing his discovery in 1902.