Quotes About 1886

ONE MORNING IN AUGUST 1886, as heat rose from the streets with the intensity of a child's fever

In 1886, Standard Oil set up the Natural Gas Trust, with Rockefeller as its largest shareholder.

THE LONDON "SEASON" OF THE YEAR 1886, UPON ITS surface, was much as other and similar seasons had been before it. No blare of sudden trumpets marked its advent. Victoria was still placidly upon her throne; Lord Salisbury—for the second time—had ousted Gladstone from the premier's chair; Ireland was seething with outrage and sedition; and Beecham's Pills were "universally admitted to be a marvellous antidote for nervous disorders.

Marc Bloch was born in 1886, fought in World War I,

The history of domestic terrorism is long. The Haymarket bombing occurred in Chicago in 1886.

As a postscript, it is interesting to note that on a visit to London in 1886, Ouida did meet Oscar Wilde and indeed published four articles in his magazine Woman's World between 1888 and 1889; her experience of knowing Wilde, who described her as "the last romantic", did influence her later works, however superficially.