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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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| 1886 |
| | | The Crofters' Holdings Act provides security of tenure and other safeguards for Highland crofters in Scotland | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The Home Rule campaign for Ireland prompts a Scottish Home Rule Association to fight in a related cause | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Germany and Britain define neighbouring spheres of interest in east Africa | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The German and British agreement in east Africa creates the present-day boundary between Tanzania and Kenya | |
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