* 1886 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

This was a direct blow against the society's own dictionary published in 1886, and reform movement lost much of its momentum.

Friendly rival and Flor de Sánchez y Haya owner Ignacio Haya built his own factory nearby in the same year, and many other cigar manufacturers soon followed, especially after an 1886 fire that gutted much of Key West.

Canoe Lake is the last remnant of an area of marsh and open water known as the Great Morass, drained in 1886, on which much of Southsea now sits.

In November 1886, Churchill announced his own ' Unauthorised Programme ' at Dartford, the content of which had much in common with Chamberlain's own recent manifesto, including smallholdings for rural labourers and greater local government.

* 1886 A hurricane destroys Indianola and causes much damage to Houston.

Land in the area in 1886 was selling for around $ 10 – 25 per acre, but by the spring of 1887 land was selling for as much as $ 18, 000 per acre.

The town of Benson, which derives its name from early settler Alfred Monroe (" Mim ") Benson, owes much of its historical development to the railroad line which passed through the present location in town in 1886 on its route between Fayetteville and Contentnea.

Neither the granting of town rights to Doberan in 1879 ( motto: Hirsch, crook and swan, are the arms of Doberan ) nor the construction of the railway line from Rostock via Bad Doberan to Wismar in 1883 / 84, nor the establishment of a narrow gauge steam railway between 1886 and 1910 altered the situation much.

The " Voltaire " was at the Academy of 1883 ; it was followed, in 1884, by the " Marriage de convenance ", perhaps the most popular of all Orchardson's pictures ; in 1885, by " The Salon of Madame Récamier "; in 1886, by " After ", the sequel to the " Marriage de convenance ", and " A Tender Chord ", one of his most exquisite productions ; in 1887, by " The First Cloud "; in 1888, by " Her Mother's Voice "; and in 1889, by " The Young Duke ", a canvas on which he returned to much the same pictorial scheme as that of the " Voltaire ".

* Tsuguharu Foujita or Fujita, ( 1886 – 1968 ), Japanese artist, who spent much of his career in France

Cruelle Enigme followed in 1885 ; then André Cornelis ( 1886 ) and Mensonges ( 1887 )-inspired by Octave Mirbeau's life-were received with much favour.

During the debate which followed Gladstone's conversion to Home Rule in 1886, he declared: " As a Nationalist, I do not regard as entirely palatable the idea that forever and a day Ireland's voice should be excluded from the councils of an empire which the genius and valour of her sons have done so much to build up and of which she is to remain ".

Until the pope either formally revokes Christchurch's designation ( which, given its historic status and significance for Dubliners, is unlikely ), or grants cathedral status to another church ( which is much more likely ), the main Roman Catholic church in Dublin will continue to be the " pro-cathedral " ( meaning in effect acting cathedral ), a title officially given to St Mary's Church in 1886, though it used that title unofficially since the 1820s.

Although unable to accomplish much due to his lack of a parliamentary majority, the split of the Liberals over Irish Home Rule in 1886 enabled him to return to power with a majority, and, excepting a Liberal minority government ( 1892 – 95 ), to serve as Prime Minister from 1886 to 1902.

Ernst Thälmann ( 16 April 1886 – 18 August 1944 ) was the leader of the Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ) during much of the Weimar Republic.

However, much of the area of these villages was already under the control of the Imperial Japanese Army, who had established a field artillery training school in 1886.

In early 1886, the Knights were trying to coordinate 1400 strikes involving over 600, 000 workers spread over much of the country.

Suddenly, it all collapsed, largely because the Knights were unable to handle so much on their plate at once, and because they took a smashing blow in the aftermath of the Haymarket Riot in May 1886 in Chicago.

It was established in 1886, and it became the dominant American publication covering baseball — so much so that it acquired the nickname " The Bible of Baseball ".

Vilmorin's first husband was an American real-estate heir, Henry Leigh Hunt ( 1886 – 1972 ), only son of Leigh Smith John Hunt, a businessman who once owned much of Las Vegas, by his wife Jessie Noble.

Sadly the population today is much diminished ; the whole of the Durness area suffered greatly from the Highland Clearances, the first in 1819 and thereafter throughout the greater part of the 19th century until the Crofting Act of the 1886 finally gave crofters a measure of security of tenure.

In 1886, a Head Tax was imposed on the Chinese, which reached as much as $ 500 per person to enter Canada by 1904.

His transmission range was at least as much as a half a mile and he received a patent for this device,, in 1886.

An early experimental non-magnetic tape recorder patented in 1886 by Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory.

The earliest known audio tape recorder was a non-magnetic, non-electric version invented by Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory and patented in 1886 ().

It is named for W. Graham Claytor ( 1886 – 1971 ) of Roanoke, Virginia, a vice president of Appalachian Power and supervised construction of the dam and creation of the lake.

Graham was a strong supporter of Scottish independence and in 1886 had helped establish the Scottish Home Rule Association, and while in the House of Commons made several attempts to persuade fellow MPs of the desirability of a Scottish parliament.

* Vice-Admiral Sir William Graham, 1886 – 1888

* John D. Graham ( 1886 – 1961 ), American painter

* William M. Graham ( New York ) ( 1819 – 1886 ), New York politician

* William Graham ( field hockey ) ( 1886 – 1947 ), Irish Olympic field hockey player

Frank Porter Graham ( October 14, 1886 – February 16, 1972 ) was a president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and, for a brief period, United States Senator.

* Frank Porter Graham ( 1886 – 1972 ), Democratic Senator from North Carolina, 1949 – 1950

* John D. Graham ( 1886 – 1961 )

From the summer of 1886, famed inventor and scientist Alexander Graham Bell made his estate and future retirement home at Red Head, a peninsula opposite Baddeck.

From 1879 to 1886, an unusually long period, he was adjutant of his battalion, and in that capacity accompanied it to the Sudan in 1884 in the expedition under Sir Gerald Graham VC.

* W. Graham Claytor, president of Southern Railway ( b. 1886 ).

He was the son of Gertrude Harris Boatwright Claytor, a lyric poet, and W. Graham Claytor ( 1886 – 1971 ), who was vice-president of Appalachian Power.

William Graham Claytor ( December 20, 1886 – February 28, 1971 ), of Roanoke, Virginia, was the vice president of Appalachian Power Company, an electric utility service.

It is named for W. Graham Claytor ( 1886 – 1971 ) of Roanoke, Virginia, a vice president of Appalachian Power who had supervised construction of the dam and creation of the lake.

* Tommy Graham ( Australian rules footballer ) ( 1886 –?

* Graham Berry 1886 – 1891

These improvements were invented by Alexander Bell's cousin Chester Bell, a chemist, and Charles Sumner Tainter, an optical instrument maker, at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory in Washington, D. C. Hubbard and Chester Bell approached Edison about combining their interests, but Edison refused, resulting in the Volta Laboratory Association merging the shares of their Volta Graphophone Company with the company that later evolved into Columbia Records in 1886.

* Captain Lord Alastair Mungo Graham ( b. 1886 )