1886

• Britain annexes Burma.
• US President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
• Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes his novel Little Lord Fauntleroy.
• Thomas Hardy publishes The Mayor of Casterbridge.
• Robert Louis Stevenson publishes The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
• Friedrich Nietzsche publishes Thus Spake Zarathustra.

These people were born in 1886:

• Mexican painter Diego Rivera.
• American baseball great Ty Cobb.

These people died in 1886:

• American poet Emily Dickinson
• Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States.

1885 - 1886 - 1887

19th century

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