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| 1886 |
| | | Gladstone becomes Britain's prime minister again, after joining forces with the Irish Nationalists to defeat Lord Salisbury's government | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Dutch painter Vincent Willem van Gogh moves from Antwerp to Paris | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Addis Ababa is founded, to become subsequently the capital of Ethiopia | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Gladstone's bill promising Home Rule for Ireland splits the Liberal party in Britain's House of Commons | |
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| 1886 |
| | | US author Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes Little Lord Fauntleroy, featuring an aristocratic child in a velvet suit | |
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| 1886 |
| | | In the Haymarket Affair a demonstration in Chicago against police brutality results in deaths and subsequent executions | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The Statue of Liberty, after crossing the Atlantic, is erected on Bedloe's island in the approach to New York harbour | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Robert Louis Stevenson introduces a dual personality in his novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The American Federation of Labor, with Samuel Gompers as its first president, is formed as an umbrella organization to represent all unions | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The split in the Liberal party over Home Rule results in a defeat for Gladstone and the return of Lord Salisbury as Britain's prime minister | |
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