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1886 in the United States
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1860s 1870s – 1880s – 1890s 1900s
Years:	1883 1884 1885 – 1886 – 1887 1888 1889
Flag:	38 stars; (1877 – 1890)

Events from the year 1886 in the United States.

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February 14 – The first train load of oranges leaves Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.
March – Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, USA.
March 17 – Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
May 1 – A general strike begins in the United States, which escalates into the Haymarket Riot and eventually wins the eight-hour workday in the U.S.
May 8 – Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be named Coca-Cola.
May 17 – Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that corporations have the same rights as living persons.
May 29 – Pharmacist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (ad in the Atlanta Journal).
June 2 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
July 23 – Steve Brodie fakes a jump from the Brooklyn Bridge.
August 20 – A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas.
August 31 – An earthquake of between 7.3 and 7.6 on the Richter Scale hits Charlestown, South Carolina, leaving 40,000 homeless.
September 4 – Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
October 28 – In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

Father Augustine Tolton, the first Roman Catholic priest from the United States to proclaim himself African American, is ordained in Rome.