Cosmopolitan began as a family magazine, launched in 1886 by Schlicht & Field of New York as The Cosmopolitan.

There were four kinds of allegiances ( Rittson v Stordy ( 1855 ) 3 Sm & G 230 ; De Geer v Stone ( 1882 ) 22 Ch D 243 ; Isaacson v Durant ( 1886 ) 54 LT 684 ; Gibson, Gavin v Gibson 3 KB 379 ; Joyce v DPP AC 347 ; Collingwood v Pace ( 1661 ) O Bridg 410 ; Lane v Bennett ( 1836 ) 1 M & W 70 ; Lyons Corp v East India Co ( 1836 ) 1 Moo PCC 175 ; Birtwhistle v Vardill ( 1840 ) 7 Cl & Fin 895 ; R v Lopez, R v Sattler ( 1858 ) Dears & B 525 ; Ex p Brown ( 1864 ) 5 B & S 280 );

London: George Bell & Sons, 1886.

* 1804 – John Deere, American manufacturer ( Deere & Company ) ( d. 1886 )

* By Nile and Tigris, a narrative of journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British museum between the years 1886 and 1913, by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, 1920 ( a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; DjVu & layered PDF format )

* Hunter, William., The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Turbner & Co .: London 1886

Deer-stalking London: Chapman & Hall 1886

* June 25 – John A D McCurdy, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia & pilot ( b. 1886 )

J & E Hall of Dartford, England outfitted the ' SS Selembria ' with a vapor compression system to bring 30, 000 carcasses of mutton from the Falkland Islands in 1886.

However, the American Point System standardized finally in 1886 is different from Hawks ’ original idea in that 1 pica is not precisely equal to < sup > 1 </ sup >⁄< sub > 6 </ sub > inch ( neither the Imperial inch nor the U. S. inch ), as the United States Type Founders ’ Association defined the standard pica to be the Johnson Pica which had been adopted and used by Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan type foundry ( MS & J ), Philadelphia.

* Historia de Cataluña, by V. Balaguer ( II vols., Madrid, 1886, & c .)

Founded in 1886, it is a research university ranked as 45th in the US among national universities by U. S. News & World Report in 2012.

In 1886 it officially became ' Waterloo Station ', reflecting long-standing common usage, even in some L & SWR timetables.

On 8 March 1886, the inventors took a stagecoach built by Wilhelm Wimpff & Sohn inside the house, telling the neighbours that it was a birthday gift for Mrs. Daimler.

" By the maternal side he was great grandson of Matthew Pilkington " from ' Worthyies of Bucks & men of note ' Robt Gibbs 1886 p 363.

The first significant growth of the area was realized in 1886, when the Kansas City-Memphis & Birmingham and the Sheffield & Birmingham Railroads were completed through Jasper.

The current town of Ramona was founded in 1886, when a land speculation syndicate, headed by Milton Santee, " organized the Santa Maria Land & Water Company and acquired for a townsite in the Santa Maria Valley and named it Ramona ".

In The Glory Years, by Frank F. Pourade ( 1964, Copley Press, republished by the San Diego Historical Society ), the author indicates that the Santa Maria Land & Water Company syndicate changed the name in 1886.

Swedish immigrants continued to be drawn to Deere & Company, with John Deere as leader continuing to hire new employees in droves until his death in 1886.

* History of Kennebunkport & Arundel, Maine ( 1886 )

* Naumkeag Museum & Gardens ( 1886 )

* March 31 – John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, British Field Marshal ( b. 1886 )

The first auto race track in the country, Narragansett Park, located off Park Avenue, opened in present-day Stadium Ball Field in September 1886 as a trotting track.

* Field Notes on Apple Culture ( 1886 )

Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC ( 10 July 1886 – 31 March 1946 ), was a British and Anglo-Irish soldier.

The CPR had constructed smaller hotels in 1886 to accommodate travellers, including: Glacier House in Glacier in the Rogers Pass, Mount Stephen Hotel in Field, B. C.

* Mount Stephen House, Field, British Columbia ( 1886 – 1963 ; demolished 1953 – 1963 ); Tudor hotel was used by YMCA from 1919 to 1953

When the Main Northern Line opened on 17 September 1886, a single platform known as Field of Mars was located on the western side of the line opposite Chester Street.

Located at the northwest corner of University and Culver, Culver Field was home of the Rochester Broncos from 1886 until it burned down in 1892.

Cyrus W. Field had become a major figure behind the NY & NE by 1886 but after the state of Massachusetts refused to sell him the $ 3 million in stock it held ( instead disposing of the shares to a rival group because of concern about Field's close association with Jay Gould ) Field sold his holdings in the NY & NE.

Bowen was first selected to play for Wales against England at the Rectory Field, Blackheath in 1886 under the captaincy of Charlie Newman.

Maidstone College of Art was founded in 1867, and Rochester College of Art in 1886.

* James Cunningham ( industrialist ), manufacturer of carriages Rochester, N. Y. (+ 1886 )

In 1886, it became the Wagner Memorial Lutheran College after a building in Rochester was purchased for its use by John G. Wagner in memory of his son.

The baseball stadium that would come to be known as Sunlight Park was built for the team and opened on May 22, 1886, with Toronto defeating Rochester 10 – 3 in front of 3, 000 fans.

Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.

* How to Win: A Book For Girls NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1886. reprinted 1887 & 1888.

Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.

* Holton D. Robinson ( 1886 ), Born in Massena, NY he invented stronger suspension bridge cable, and built such famous spans as the Manhattan Bridge and the San Francisco Bay Bridge.

* Anonymous, Illustrated sketch book of Staten Island, NY: Its industries and commerce, New York 1886 page 133, Excerpt at www. rootsweb. ancestry. com /~ nyrichmo.

A passage from an anonymous author in an Illustrated Sketch Book of Staten Island, NY: Its industries and commerce, from 1886, describes New Brighton as follows:

* Ali, Omar H. 2003 " Black Populism in the New South, 1886 – 1898 ," Ph. D. dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY ( UMI Number: 3104783 )