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Events from the year 1886 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative (until 28 January), William Gladstone, Liberal (until 20 July), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative

1 January - Burma was presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift, after the country was annexed into British India in November, 1885.
18 January - British Hockey Association founded.^[1]
27 January - Salisbury loses supports of the Irish Party, and resigns as Prime Minister.^[1]
1 February
- William Ewart Gladstone becomes Prime Minister for the third time.^[2]
- Mersey railway opens, linking Birkenhead to Liverpool.^[1]
7-8 February - Two days of rioting in London's West End by unemployed. Coincides with the coldest winter in 30 years.
March - Linfield F.C. is formed in Belfast.
10 March - First Crufts dog show held in London.^[3]
4 April - Gladstone introduces the First Irish Home Rule Bill in Parliament. It was defeated on 8 June.
30 June - Royal Holloway, University of London opened by Queen Victoria in Surrey.
27 July - General election won by the Conservative Party under Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.
1 September - The Severn Tunnel opens.^[1]
9 December - Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster.

10 May - Olaf Stapledon, author and philosopher (died 1950)
20 May - John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, businessman (died 1971)
18 June - George Mallory, climber (died 1924)
24 June - George Shiels, dramatist (died 1949)
26 August - Ronald Niel Stuart, Royal Navt Captain (died 1954)
27 August - Rebecca Helferich Clarke, composer and violist (died 1979)
27 August - Eric Coates, composer (died 1957)
13 September - Robert Robinson, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
20 September - Charles Williams, author (died 1945)
26 September - Archibald Vivian Hill, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1977)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 311–312. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ PMs in history William Ewart Gladstone, 10 Downing Street website
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.