Editing 1886 (section)

=== April–June ===
[[File:Coca-Cola bottle cap.svg|thumb|140px|right| [[May 8]]: [[Coca-Cola]] invented.]]
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[William Ewart Gladstone]] introduces the [[Government of Ireland Bill 1886|First Irish Home Rule Bill]] in the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]; it is defeated on [[June 8]].
* [[April 6]] &ndash; The settlement of [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], is incorporated.
* [[April 24]] &ndash; Father [[Augustine Tolton]], the first [[Priesthood (Catholic Church)|Roman Catholic priest]] from the United States to identify himself publicly as [[African American]], is ordained in [[Rome]].
* [[April]] &ndash; The [[Svenska drägtreformföreningen|Swedish Dress Reform Society]] is established. 
* [[May 1]] &ndash; A [[general strike]] begins in the United States, which escalates on [[May 4]] into the [[Haymarket affair]] in Chicago, and eventually wins the [[eight-hour day]] for workers.
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Emile Berliner]] starts work that leads to the invention of the [[Phonograph|gramophone]].
* [[May 8]] &ndash; American pharmacist Dr. [[John Pemberton]] invents a [[carbonated]] beverage that will be named '[[Coca-Cola]]'.
* [[May 15]] &ndash; Portugal and France agree to regulate the borders of their colonies in Guinea.
* [[May 17]]
** ''[[Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad]]'': The [[U.S. Supreme Court]] rules that [[corporations]] have the same rights as living persons.
** [[Motherwell Football Club]] is founded in Scotland.
* [[May 29]] &ndash; [[John Pemberton]] begins to advertise [[Coca-Cola]] (in ''[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution#The Atlanta Journal|The Atlanta Journal]]'').
* [[June 2]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Grover Cleveland]] marries [[Frances Folsom]] in the [[White House]] (Washington, D.C.), becoming the only [[President of the United States]] to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Uganda Martyrs]]: [[Charles Lwanga]], 12 other Catholic boys and men, and 9 Anglicans, are burned (and another Catholic speared) to death, at the orders of Kabaka [[Mwanga II of Buganda]] in [[Namugongo]].
[[Image:Lake Tarawera.jpg|thumb|160px|right| [[June 10]]: [[Mount Tarawera]] erupts.]]
* [[June 10]] &ndash; The  [[1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera|Mount Tarawera volcano erupts]] in [[New Zealand]], resulting in the deaths of over 150 people and the destruction of the famous [[Pink and White Terraces]].
* [[June 12]] &ndash; King [[Ludwig II of Bavaria]] is detained as part of a deposition, drowning the following day under mysterious circumstances. Six weeks later his unfinished [[Neuschwanstein Castle]] is opened to the public.
* [[June 13]]
** The [[Great Vancouver Fire]] devastates much of [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]].
** A large [[1886 St. Croix River log jam|log jam]] forms on the [[St. Croix River (Wisconsin–Minnesota)|St. Croix River]] near [[Taylors Falls]], [[Minnesota]]
* [[June 25]] &ndash; [[Arturo Toscanini]] makes his conducting debut, with an Italian opera company visiting [[Rio de Janeiro]].
* [[June 30]] &ndash; The [[Royal Holloway, University of London|Royal Holloway College]] for women is opened by [[Queen Victoria]], near London, England.