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Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s
Years:	1873 1874 1875 - 1876 - 1877 1878 1879

1876 in topic:
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Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science
Sports - Rail Transport
Countries: Australia - Canada - Germany - Ireland - New Zealand - Norway - South Africa - U.S. - UK
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works

Year 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1876
2 Births
- 2.1 January - June
- 2.2 July - December
3 Deaths
- 3.1 January - June
- 3.2 July - December

Events of 1876

January - March

January 31 - The United States orders all Native Americans whatsoever move into closely guarded reservations.
February 2 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
February 3 - Paraguay makes peace with Argentina after the War of the Triple Alliance.
February 15 - Texas ratifies its current constitution.
February 22 - Johns Hopkins University is founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
March 7 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,466).
March 10 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."

April - June

April 16 - Bulgarian April uprising.
May 1 - Settle-Carlisle Railway in England is opened to passenger traffic.
May 10 - The Centennial Exposition begins in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
May 11 - May 12 - Berlin Memorandum - Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary propose an armistice between Turkey and its insurgents.
May 16 - British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli rejects the Berlin Memorandum.
May 18 - Wyatt Earp starts work in Dodge City, Kansas, serving under Marshal Larry Deger.
June 4 - The Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California via the First Transcontinental Railroad 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
June 17 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud - 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
June 25 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Little Bighorn. 300 men of the US 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer wiped out by 5000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

July - September

Punch cartoon from June 17. Russia preparing to let slip the Balkan "Dogs of War" to attack Turkey, while policeman John Bull (Britain) warns Russia to take care. The Balkans would attack Turkey two weeks later.

July 1 - Serbia declares war on Turkey.
July 2 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey.
July 4 - The United States celebrates its centennial.
July 8 - Reichstadt Agreement between Russia and Austria-Hungary on partitioning the Balkan peninsula.
July 13 - The prosecution of Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman, for using ritualist practices begins.
August 1 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
August 8 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
August 31 - Murat V, sultan of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
September 5 - Gladstone publishes Bulgarian Horrors pamphlet.
September 7 - In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly wiped out.

October - December

October 4 - Texas A&M University, opened for classes.
October 31 - Catastrophic cyclone strikes the east coast of India. 200,000 people lose their lives.
November 2 - A giant squid, 6.1 meters long, washes ashore in Thimble Tickle Bay in Newfoundland
November 7 - The U.S. presidential election is held. After long and heated disputes, Rutherford Birchard Hayes would be declared the winner over Samuel Jones Tilden.
November 10 - The Centennial Exposition ends in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
November 23 - Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
November 25 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (the soldiers destroyed all of the villager's winter food and clothing and then slashed their ponies' throats).
November 29 - Porfirio Díaz becomes President of Mexico.
December 5 - A Brooklyn, New York theater fire kills more than 300.
December 6 - The first cremation in the United States took place in a crematory built by Francis Julius LeMoyne.
December 29 - Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 92 dead.

Undated

Charles Wells opens his brewery based in Bedford, England.
Lyford House, by Richardson Bay, Tiburon, California is constructed
Construction of Spandau Prison completed.
Invention of the four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto.
Samurai are banned from carrying swords in Japan.
Harvard Lampoon founded.
The Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland founded.
Lars Magnus Ericsson and Carl Johan Andersson start a small mechanical workshop in Stockholm, Sweden, dealing with telegraphy equipment, which grows into the world-wide company Ericsson.
Friends Academy is founded by Gideon Frost.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer first published.

Births

**1876 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1876 MDCCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2629
Armenian calendar	1325 ԹՎ ՌՅԻԵ
Bahá'í calendar	32 – 33
Berber calendar	2826
Buddhist calendar	2420
Burmese calendar	1238
Chinese calendar	4512/4572-12-5 (乙亥年十二月初五日) — to — 4513/4573-11-16 (丙子年十一月十六日)
Coptic calendar	1592 – 1593
Ethiopian calendar	1868 – 1869
Hebrew calendar	5636 – 5637
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1931 – 1932
- Shaka Samvat	1798 – 1799
- Kali Yuga	4977 – 4978
Holocene calendar	11876
Iranian calendar	1254 – 1255
Islamic calendar	1292 – 1293
Japanese calendar	Meiji 9 (明治9年)
Korean calendar	4209
Thai solar calendar	2419