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1876
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'''1876 (MDCCCLXXVI)''' is a
leap year starting on Saturday.
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'''Years:''' 1873 1874 1875 - 1876 -
1877 1878 1879
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Events
January-March
*
Chinese New Year of the
Fire Rat begins.
*
January 31 -
United States orders all
Indigenous peoples in the United States Native Americans to move into reservations.
*
February 2 - The
National League 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 14 -
Alexander Graham Bell applies for a
patent for the
telephone.
*
February 22 -
Johns Hopkins University founded in
Baltimore, Maryland.
*
March 7 -
Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the
telephone (patent # 174,465).
*
March 10 -
Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful
telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."
April-June
*
April 16 -
Bulgarian
April uprising
*
April 17 - Six
Fenians Fenian prisoners escape from a penal colony in
Fremantle, Western Australia Fremantle,
Australia with the aid of ship
Catalpa rescue Catalpa.
*
May 1 - Turks crush uprising of Bulgar Slavs
*
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
Berlin Memorandum
*
May 18 -
Wyatt Earp starts work in
Dodge City, Kansas, serving under
Marshal Larry Deger
*
May 30 -
Abd-ul-Aziz,
List of Ottoman Sultans Sultan of the
Ottoman Empire is deposed and succeeded by his nephew
Murat V.
*
June 4 - An express
railroad train called the
Transcontinental Express arrives in
San Francisco, California via the
First Transcontinental Railroad (North America) First Transcontinental Railroad only 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 forces at Rosebud Creek in
Montana Territory.
*
June 25 - Indian Wars:
Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Lieutenant colonel George Armstrong Custer of the
US 7th Cavalry Regiment leads a unit of 300 men in battle against the allied forces of
Lakota,
Cheyenne and
Arapaho, counting 5000 men under the leadership of
Sitting Bull and
Crazy Horse. The latter emerge victorious.
July-September
*
July 1 -
Serbia Declaration of war declares war on
Turkey
*
July 2 -
Montenegro declares war on
Turkey
*
July 4 -
United States Centennial See: [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/T825xB1xI5/ ''Centennial exposition described and illustrated''], being a concise and graphic description of this grand enterprise commemorative of the first centennary of American independence. Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard bros, 1876.
*
July 8 -
Reichstadt Agreement between Russia and Austria-Hungary on partitioning the Balkan peninsula.
*
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,
List of Ottoman Sultans Sultan of the
Ottoman Empire is deposed and succeeded by his brother
Abdul Hamid II.
*
September 5 -
William Ewart Gladstone Gladstone publishes ''Bulgarian Horrors'' pamphlet
*
September 7 - In
Northfield, Minnesota,
Jesse James 1847 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, the state’s first public institution of higher education, opened on October 4, 1876 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
*
October 31 - Catastrophic
cyclone strikes the east coast of
India. 200,000 people lose their lives.
*
November 2 -
Atlantic giant squid 6.1 meters long washes ashore in
Thimble Tickle Bay in
Canada
*
November 21 -
Porfirio Diaz arrives in
Mexico City and takes power
*
November 7 -
U.S. presidential election, 1876 U.S. presidential election is held. After long and heated disputes,
Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford Birchard Hayes would be declared the winner over
Samuel Jones Tilden.
*
November 7 -
Green Clay Smith ran as presidential candidate of
Prohibition Party.
*
November 7 -
Samuel Fenton Cary ran as vice-presidential candidate of Greenback Party.
*
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
United States American defeat at the
Battle of the Little Bighorn,
United States Army troops under General
Ranald Mackenzie sack
Chief Dull Knife's sleeping
Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the
Powder River (Montana) Powder River (the soldiers destroyed all of the villager's winter food and clothing and then slashed their ponies' throats).
*
November 29 -
Porfirio DÃaz becomes President of
Mexico.
*
December 5 - Fire in theater in
Brooklyn,
New York City, kills more than 300
*
December 23 -
Conference of Constantinople about Ottoman treatment of its ethnic minorities begins
*
December 29 - The
Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster, 64 injured, 92 dead at
Ashtabula, Ohio.
Unknown dates
*
Spandau Prison finished
* Invention of the
four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine by
Nikolaus Otto
* United States of America
Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia
* After the
Young Turks rebellion deposes sultan
Abd al-Aziz. He is succeeded by
Murad V who, after being declared insane, gives way to
Abd al-Hamid I.
*
Samurai are banned from carrying swords in
Japan.
*
Harvard Lampoon founded.
*
Heinz Ketchup introduced.
Births
January-March
*
January 5 -
Konrad Adenauer,
Chancellor of Germany (d.
1967)
*
January 11 -
Elmer Flick, baseball player (d.
1971)
*
January 12 -
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (d.
1948)
*
January 12 -
Jack London, American author (d.
1916)
*
January 20 -
Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d.
1967)
*
January 23 -
Otto Diels, German chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1954)
*
January 29 -
Havergal Brian, British composer (d.
1972)
*
February 12 -
Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama Thubten Gyatso, 13th
Dalai Lama (d.
1933)
*
February 19 -
Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (d.
1957)
*
March 1 -
Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (d.
1942)
*
March 2 -
Pope Pius XII (d.
1958)
*
March 4 -
Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d.
1947)
*
March 11 -
Carl Ruggles, British composer (d.
1971)
*
March 21 -
John Tewksbury, American athlete (d.
1968)
April-September
*
April 4 -
Maurice de Vlaminck, lyricist (d.
1958)
*
April 11 -
Paul Henry (painter) Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d.
1958)
*
April 22 -
Robert Bárány,
Nobel Prize winner in medicine (d.
1936)
*
June 5 -
Tony Jackson, American jazz musician (d.
1920)
*
June 13 -
William Sealy Gosset, English chemist (d.
1937)
*
July 12 -
Max Jacob, French poet (d.
1944)
*
July 19 -
Joseph Fielding Smith (1876-1972) Joseph Fielding Smith, president of
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.
1972)
*
August 7 -
Mata Hari, exotic dancer and spy (d.
1917)
*
September 6 -
John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1935)
*
September 15 -
Bruno Walter, German conductor (d.
1962)
*
September 16 -
Marvin Hart, boxer (d.
1931)
*
September 18 -
James Scullin, ninth
Prime Minister of Australia (d.
1953)
*
September 26 -
Edith Abbott, social worker, educator, and author (d.
1957)
*
September 29 -
Nicholas Kandel, bandit, pillager (d.
1942)
October-December
*
October 13 -
Rube Waddell,
Baseball Hall of Famer (d.
1914)
*
November 7 -
Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d.
1958)
*
November 7 -
Culbert Olson, Governor of California (d.
1962)
*
November 17 -
August Sander, German photographer (d.
1964)
*
November 23 -
Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d.
1946)
*
November 24 -
Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (d.
1937)
*
December 9 -
Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (d.
1940)
*
December 12 -
Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (d.
1928)
*
December 21 -
Jack Lang (Australia) Jack Lang, Australian politician (d.
1975)
*
December 25 -
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (d.
1948)
*
December 25 -
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1959)
*
December 29 -
Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist (d.
1973)
*
Alfred Stock, German chemist (d.
1946)
Deaths
*
January 14 -
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b.
1780)
*
February 18 -
Charlotte Cushman, American stage actress (b.
1816)
*
May 26 -
František Palacký, Czech historian and politician (b.
1798)
*
June 21 -
Antonio López de Santa Anna,
President of Mexico (b.
1794)
*
June 25 -
George Armstrong Custer, U.S. officer (killed in battle) (b.
1839)
*
August 2 -
Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter and entertainer (b.
1837)
*
October 1 -
James Lick, American land baron (b.
1796)
*
Abd al-Aziz,
Ottoman Sultan (b.
1830)
Other
*1876 was also the year that sports club
Académica de Coimbra, from
Coimbra,
Portugal, was founded
*1876 was also the year that football club Port Vale FC were formed
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