In 1886, Jules Marcou said Vespucci renamed himself from Alberigo Vespucci ( Albericus Vespucius ) to Amerigo Vespucci after meeting the native inhabitants of the eponymous Amerrique mountain ranges of Nicaragua that connect North America and South America, an important geographic feature of New World maps and charts.

* 1886 – An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.

Davis ' reputation in the South was restored by the book, and by his warm reception on his tour of the region in 1886 and 1887.

** Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, South African artist ( b. 1886 )

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

Then in 1886, an Australian discovered gold in the Witwatersrand area of the South African Republic.

She organised some 37 women in her Leek School of Art Embroidery to collaborate working from a full-scale water-colour facsimile drawing provided by the South Kensington Museum The full-size replica was finished in 1886 and is now exhibited in the Museum of Reading in Reading, Berkshire, England .< ref name = reading >

He failed when he stood for election in 1884 ( East Hobart ) and 1886 ( South Hobart ).

* July 4, 1886: Charleston, South Carolina During Sunday school, Emma Connelly shot and killed John Steedley for " circulating slanderous reports " about her, even though her brother publicly whipped him a few days earlier.

Deciding to emigrate, the couple and their children moved to Australia's New South Wales in 1878, but it was here that Mary died after a few years, and so in 1886 Stephen remarried, this time to Harriet Eliza Gordon ( 1853 – 1910 ), an Englishwoman from a wealthy background who had moved to Australia when still a child.

In 1886, Jefferson County produced 55, 120 bales of cotton, the most in Arkansas, and the second-most throughout the South.

* John Murray ( sheep breeder ) father ( ca. 1812 – 1886 ) and son ( 1841 – 1908 ) breeders of merino sheep in South Australia.

Shed Road, the first all-weather turnpike in the American South, was constructed in the 1870s and operated from 1874 – 1886.

Over the ensuing centuries, portions of the township were taken to create many new municipalities: Hamilton Township on February 5, 1813 ; Atlantic City on May 1, 1854 ; Absecon on May 1, 1854 ; South Atlantic City ( now Margate City ) on September 7, 1885 ; Pleasantville on January 10, 1889 ; Linwood on February 20, 1889 ; Somers Point on April 24, 1886 ; Longport on March 7, 1898 ; Ventnor City on March 17, 1903 ; and Northfield on March 21, 1905.

Since 1837, ten municipalities have separated from the original Egg Harbor Township, including Atlantic City ( 1854 ), Absecon ( 1872 ), South Atlantic City ( now Margate ) ( 1885 ), Somers Point ( 1886 ), Pleasantville ( 1888 ), Linwood ( 1889 ), Longport ( 1898 ), Brigantine ( 1903 ), Ventnor ( 1903 ) and Northfield ( 1905 ).

The Borough of Mount Pleasant has three listings on the National Register of Historic Places: the Samuel Warden House ( 1886 ) at 200 South Church Street, the demolished Mount Pleasant Armory, and the Mount Pleasant Historic District, which encompasses the oldest parts of the borough.

The city received its present name from the post office, which had officially changed its name from South Cottonwood Post Office to Murray Post Office in 1883, after the Civil War general, Eli Murray, territorial governor of Utah from 1880 to 1886.

South African gold production went from zero in 1886 to 23 % of the total world output in 1896.

In an unsuccessful attempt to recover some of the financial losses from the Fair, the grounds and structures were reused for the North Central & South American Exposition from November 10, 1885 to March 31, 1886 with no great success.

He joined the orchestra of an opera company, with which he toured South America in 1886.

In January 1886, Tillman wrote a letter of address to the farmers of South Carolina, who Tillman said composed 76 % of the total population of the State of South Carolina.

Conway remained the leader of South Place until 1886, when Stanton Coit took his place.

Notable examples of damaging intraplate earthquakes are the devastating Gujarat earthquake in 2001, the 1811-1812 earthquakes in New Madrid, Missouri, and the 1886 earthquake in Charleston, South Carolina.

Historic examples of intraplate earthquakes include those in Mineral, Virginia in 2011 ( estimated magnitude 5. 8 ), New Madrid in 1811 and 1812 ( estimated magnitude as high as 8. 1 ), the Boston ( Cape Ann ) earthquake of 1755 ( estimated magnitude 6. 0 to 6. 3 ), earthquakes felt in New York City in 1737 and 1884 ( both quakes estimated at about 5. 5 magnitude ), and the Charleston earthquake in South Carolina in 1886 ( estimated magnitude 6. 5 to 7. 3 ).

While the Belgian interest soon concentrated on the Congo River, the British and Germans focused on Eastern Africa and in 1886 partitioned continental East Africa between themselves ; the Sultanate of Zanzibar, now reduced to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, remained independent, for the moment.

Yeshiva University has its roots in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva founded in 1886 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a cheder-style elementary school founded by Eastern European immigrants that offered study of Talmud along with some secular education, including instruction in English.

Although the intervention of Austria protected Serbia from the consequences of defeat, Prince Alexander's success sealed the union with Eastern Rumelia, and after long negotiations the sultan Abdul Hamid II nominated the Prince of Bulgaria as governor-general of that province for five years ( 5 April 1886 ).

* Tobias Brinkmann: Why Paul Nathan Attacked Albert Ballin: The Transatlantic Mass Migration and the Privatization of Prussia's Eastern Border Inspection, 1886 – 1914.

In 1886 the Ottoman government accepted the Bulgarian rule over Eastern Rumelia and that was the end of the free Pomak state.

In 1886 workers at the Arsenal formed a football club initially known as Dial Square after the workshops in the heart of the complex, playing their first game on 11 December ( a 6-0 victory over Eastern Wanderers ) in the Isle of Dogs.

The Army also underwent its first mobilizations, in July 1880 – April 1882 due to the Greek annexation of Thessaly, and again in September 1885 – May 1886, when Bulgaria annexed Eastern Rumelia.

A second community, the " new " Claiborne, was started in 1886 when Gen. Joseph B. Seth and the Baltimore & Eastern Railroad Company agreed to begin ferry and railroad service between Claiborne and Bay Ridge, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

Between 1875 and 1886 The Great Eastern was a permanent fixture at Milford Docks, remaining there for lengthy repairs.

* In 1886 the Uva Province was created from parts of Central Province, Eastern Province ( district of Bintenna ) and Southern Province ( district of Wellassa ).

Anchialos was liberated from Ottoman rule on 27 January 1878 and became part of Eastern Rumelia as a kaza centre in Burgaz sanjak until Bulgaria unified in 1886.

Eastern Rumelia was granted some autonomy in 1878, rebelled in 1885 and joined Bulgaria in 1886.

This allowed the introduction of a series of financial reforms which tended to ameliorate the condition of the peasantry: the poll tax was abolished in 1886, a law was passed to accelerate legal transfer of the land allotted to the peasants in 1861, the payments due from them for this land were greatly reduced, Crown lands were made available for leasing or purchase to the peasants on advantageous terms, and great stretches of Crown lands in Eastern Russia and Siberia were opened for peasant emigration and resettlement.

As a member of Narodnaya Volya, he was imprisoned for two years ( for about a year in the Peter and Paul Fortress ) and in 1886 exiled to the Irkutsk region of Eastern Siberia.

He studied law, philosophy and Near Eastern studies at the University of Vienna from 1882 to 1886.

In 1886, Wood returned to Britain to take charge of Eastern Command at Colchester.

The park housed the minor league Providence Grays of the Eastern League in 1886, but the park was too large for the pitiful attendance that the team drew, and by early June the park was once again empty.

Between 1886 and 1888, CPR built the International Railway of Maine, also referred to as the " Short Line ", across a gap between Quebec's Eastern Townships and the Maine Central Railroad at Mattawamkeag, Maine ( on the European and North American Railway " Maine " section ).

After holding an appointment in England for a brief period as ADC to Wood, who was now General Officer Commanding Eastern District, he rejoined the Egyptian Army in 1886 as assistant military secretary to Sir Francis Grenfell.

This company was supposedly reorganized as the Harrisburg and Eastern Railroad on November 26, 1886, but it was unclear who actually owned it, and the Harrisburg and New England continued to function as a paper corporation, supposedly buying the charter rights of the South Mountain Railroad at a sheriff's sale on November 30, 1888.