1886

Events

 * April 12:
 * Howell Jackson becomes Judge of the United States Circuit Courts for the Sixth Circuit

Births

 * February 27:
 * Hugo Lafayette Black Sr. - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (d. 1971)
 * June 19:
 * Dan Edward Garvey - Governor of Arizona (d. 1974)

Deaths

 * February 12:
 * Horatio Seymour - Governor of New York (b. 1810)
 * June 26:
 * David Davis Jr. - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1815)
 * August 4:
 * Samuel Jones Tilden - Governor of New York (b. 1814)
 * November 18:
 * Chester Alan Arthur - President of the United States (b. 1829)