Events January–March January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. January 5–9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is published in New York and London. January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). February 6–9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, London. February 14 – The first trainload of oranges leaves Los Angeles via the United States transcontinental railroad. March 3 – The Treaty of Bucharest ends the Serbo-Bulgarian War in the Balkans. March 16 – A law establishing the Kiel Canal is adopted in the German Empire. March 17 – Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi. March 29 – Wilhelm Steinitz becomes the first recognized World Chess Champion. March – Gottlieb Daimler assembles his first automobile, in Germany. April–June April 4 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the First Irish Home Rule Bill in the Parliament of the United Kingdom; it is defeated on June 8. April 6 – The settlement of Vancouver, British Columbia, is incorporated. April 24 – Father Augustine Tolton, the first Roman Catholic priest from the United States to identify himself publicly as African American, is ordained in Rome. April – The Swedish Dress Reform Society is established. May 1 – 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 – Emile Berliner starts work that leads to the invention of the gramophone. May 8 – American pharmacist Dr. John Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that will be named 'Coca-Cola'. May 15 – 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