Events from 1886

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1886

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1886 ID: 1070
Pope Leo XIII officially adds St. Michael Prayer to Leonine Prayers, mandating after all Low Masses
ID: 1070
1886 ID: 1071
Ernst Haeckel coins term ecology and promotes Darwin's theories at University of Jena
ID: 1071
Jena
1886 ID: 1072
Arthur Andersen & Co. founded in Chicago - pioneers accounting as business consulting
ID: 1072
Chicago
1886 ID: 1073
Heinrich Hertz generates and detects radio waves using Maxwell's equations
ID: 1073
1886 ID: 1074
Henri Poincare develops qualitative theory of differential equations - foundation for chaos theory
ID: 1074
1886 ID: 1075
Hall and Heroult simultaneously develop electrolytic process for aluminum production
ID: 1075
1886 ID: 1076
Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil - master vs slave morality, Christianity as slave revolt
ID: 1076
1886 ID: 4217
Hollerith receives his first patent (U.S. Patent 395,782) for 'Art of Compiling Statistics' - foundation of punch card data processing
ID: 4217

Books & Texts from 1886

📖 jonathan-swift - the-battle-of-the-books-and-other-short-pieces
📖 jerome-k-jerome - the-idle-thoughts-of-an-idle-fellow
📖 frances-hodgson-burnett - little-lord-fauntleroy
📖 hiram-corson - an-introduction-to-the-study-of-robert-brownings-poetry
📖 robert-louis-stevenson - the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde
📖 robert-louis-stevenson - kidnapped
📖 henry-kendall - the-poems-of-henry-kendall
📖 thomas-hardy - the-mayor-of-casterbridge