The following lists events that happened during
1886
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 ...
in
Chile.
Incumbents
*
President of Chile:
Domingo Santa María (until September 18),
José Manuel Balmaceda
Events
June
*15 June -
Chilean presidential election, 1886
Births
*date unknown -
Oscar Novoa
Oscar Novoa (born 1886, date of death unknown) was a Chilean fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1928 Summer Olympics
The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ...
*21 August -
Max Jara
Maximiliano Jara Troncoso (August 21, 1886 in Yerbas Buenas – July 6, 1965 in Santiago), better known as Max Jara, was a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1956.
He studied medicine at the University of Chile. ...
(d. 1965)
Deaths
*25 January -
Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna
Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna (August 25, 1831 – January 25, 1886) was a Chilean writer, journalist, historian and politician. Vicuña Mackenna was of Irish and Basque descent.
Biography
Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna was born in Santiago, the ...
(b. 1831)
*13 May -
Patricio Lynch (b. 1825)
*5 June -
Antonio Varas
Antonio Varas de la Barra (June 13, 1817 – June 5, 1886) was a Chilean political figure. He began his political career as a Conservative, but was later a member of the National Party, of which he was one of the founders in 1857. He served ...
(b. 1817)
*3 September -
José Miguel Barriga Castro
José Miguel Barriga Castro ( Los Andes, Chile, June 14, 1816 – September 3, 1886) was a Chilean lawyer, politician and surveyor. He was the son of Don Juan Agustín Barriga and Margarita Castro. On May 24, 1844, he married Trinidad Espinoza Pla ...
(b. 1816)
*6 September -
Vicente Pérez Rosales (b. 1807)
References
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Years of the 19th century in Chile
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