List of state leaders in 1886

This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, and other rulers in the year 1886.

Africa

• Ashanti Confederacy – Akyampon Panyin, Chair of the Kwasafomanhyiamu (1884–1887)
• Bagirmi - Gaourang II of Bagirmi (1885-1918)
• Kingdom of Benin - Adolo (1848-1888)
• Kingdom of Burundi – Mwezi IV Gisabo (1852–1908)
• Kingdom of Dahomey – Glele (1856–1889)
• Ethiopian Empire – Yohannes IV (1871–1889)
• Futa Jallon - Almany Almadou (1873-1896)
• Kingdom of Kaffa -
• Kingdom of Kongo - Pedro V of Kongo (1859-1891)
• Liberia – Hilary R. W. Johnson, President of Liberia (1884–1892)
• Mahdist State of Sudan – Abdallahi ibn Muhammad (1885–1898)
• Merina Kingdom - Ranavalona III (1883-1897)
• Opobo - Jaja (1869-1887)[1]
• Sokoto Caliphate
  • Caliph – Umaru bin Ali (1881–1891)
  • Grand Vizier -
    1. Abdullah bin Muhammad Fodiye (c.1874–1886)
    2. Muhammadu Buhari (1886–1910)
• Upingtonia - George Diederik P. Prinsloo (1885-1887)
• Wassoulou Empire – Samori Ture (1878–1898)
• Zabarima (emirate) - Babatu
• Sultanate of Zanzibar – Barghash bin Said (1870–1888)

Asia

• Emirate of Afghanistan – Abdur Rahman Khan (1880–1901)
• China (Qing dynasty) - Guangxu Emperor (1875–1908)
• Empire of Japan
  • Monarch – Emperor Meiji (1867–1912)
  • Prime Minister - Itō Hirobumi (1885–1888)
• Joseon (Korea) – Gojong (1864–1907, Emperor after 1897)
• Nepal -
• Sultanate of Oman – Turki bin Said (1871–1888)
• Persia (Qajar dynasty) – Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1848–1896)
• Rajpipla State - Gambhirsinhji II (1860-1897)
• Siam – Chulalongkorn (1868–1910)

Europe

• Andorra
  • Co-Princes -
    • French Co-Prince - Jules Grévy, President of France (1879–1887)
    • Episcopal Co-Prince - Salvador Casañas y Pagés, Bishop of Urgell (1879–1901)
  • First Syndic -
    1. Francesc Duran (1886)
    2. Francesc Maestre (1886–1888)
• Austria-Hungary – Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary (1848–1916)
  • Minister-President of Austria - Count Eduard von Taaffe (1879–1893)
  • Minister-President of Hungary - Kálmán Tisza (1875–1890)
• Belgium
  • Monarch – Léopold II, King of the Belgians (1865–1909)
  • Cabinet Chief - Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (1884–1894)
• Principality of Bulgaria
  • Monarch -

1. Alexander I Joseph (1879–1886)
2. Ferdinand I (1886–1918)

• Kingdom of Denmark
  • Monarch – Christian IX (1863–1906)
  • Prime Minister - Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup (1875–1894)
• French Third Republic –
  • President - Jules Grévy (1879–1887)
  • President of the Council -
    1. Henri Brisson (1885–1886)
    2. Charles de Freycinet (1886)
    3. René Goblet (1886–1887)
• German Empire –
  • Monarch – Wilhelm I, Kaiser (1871–1888)
  • Chancellor - Otto von Bismarck (1871–1890)
  • see also List of German rulers in 1886
• Kingdom of Greece
  • Monarch – George I (1863–1913)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. Theodoros Deligiannis (1885–1886)
    2. Dimitrios Valvis (1886)
    3. Charilaos Trikoupis (1886–1890)
• Kingdom of Italy
  • Monarch – Umberto I (1878–1900)
  • Prime Minister - Agostino Depretis (1881–1887)
• Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
  • Monarch – William III of the Netherlands (1849–1890)
  • Prime Minister - Édouard Thilges (1885–1888)
• Netherlands –
  • Monarch – William III, King of the Netherlands (1849–1890)
  • Chairman of the Dutch Council of Ministers - Jan Heemskerk (1874–1877, 1883–1888)
• Ottoman (Turkish) Empire – Abdul Hamid II, Sultan (1876–1909)
• Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves
  • Monarch – Luís I (1861–1889)
  • President of the Council of Ministers -
    1. António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo (1881–1886)
    2. José Luciano de Castro (1886–1890)
• Russian Empire – Alexander III (1881–1894)
• Kingdom of Spain –
  • Monarch – Alfonso XIII (1886–1931), under the regency of his mother Queen Maria Christina (1885–1902)
  • Prime Minister - Práxedes Mateo Sagasta (1871–1872, 1874, 1881–1883, 1885–1890, 1892–1895, 1897–1899)
• Kingdom of Sweden –
  • Monarch – Oscar II (1872–1907)
  • Prime Minister - Robert Themptander (1884–1888)
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland –
  • Monarch – Victoria (1837–1901)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1885–1886, 1886–1892, 1895–1902)
    2. William Ewart Gladstone (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886, 1892–1894)

North America

• Canada -
  • Prime Minister - Sir John A. Macdonald (1878–1891)
• Costa Rica – Bernardo Soto Alfaro, President of Costa Rica (1885–1890)
• Honduras - Luis Bográn, President of Honduras (1883-1891)
• Haiti -
• Mexico - Porfirio Díaz, President of México (1884–1911)
• United States - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (1885–1889)

Oceania

• Kingdom of Hawaii – Kalākaua (1874–1891)
• Niue – Tui-toga, King of Niue (1875–1887)
• Samoa – Malietoa Laupepa, Malietoa (1880–1898)
• Tonga –
  • Monarch – George Tupou I, King of Tonga (1845–1893)
  • Prime Minister - Shirley Waldemar Baker (1880–1890)

South America

• Argentina
  1. Julio Argentino Roca, President of Argentina (1880–1886)
  2. Miguel Juárez Celman, President of Argentina (1886–1890)
• Empire of Brazil –
  • Monarch – Pedro II (1831–1889)
  • President of the cabinet of ministers - João Maurício Vanderlei, Baron of Cotejipe (1885–1888)
• Uruguay –
  1. Máximo Santos, President of Uruguay (1882–1886)
  2. Francisco Antonino Vidal, President of Uruguay (1886)
  3. Máximo Santos, President of Uruguay (1886)
  4. Máximo Tajes, President of Uruguay (1886–1890)

References

1. Sylvanus John Sodienye Cookey King Jaja of the Niger Delta: His Life and imes 1821-1891