1876

Years: 1873 1874 1875 - 1876 - 1877 1878 1879
Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1876 in art 1876 in literature 1876 in music 1876 in science 1876 in sports 1876 in Canada List of state leaders in 1876 List of religious leaders in 1876

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January 31 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
February 2 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
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 # 174,464).
March 10 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
April 17 - Six Fenian prisoners escape from a penal colony in Fremantle, Australia with the aid of ship Catalpa.
May 1 - Turks crush uprising of Bulgar Slavs
May 11-12 - Berlin Memorandum - Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary propose armistice between Turkey and its insurgents
May 16 - British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli rejects Berlin Memorandum
May 30 - Abd-ul-Aziz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
June 4 - An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California via the 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 1 - Serbia declares war on Turkey
July 2 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
July 4 - United States Centennial
July 8 - Reichstadt Agreement between Russia and Austria-Hungary on partitioning the Balkan peninsular.
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.
November 7 - U.S. presidential election is held. After long and heated disputes, Rutherford Birchard Hayes would be declared the winner over Samuel Jones Tilden.
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 29 - Porfirio DÃÂaz 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
Spandau Prison finished
Paraguay makes peace with Argentina
Invention of the four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto
United States of America Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

Births

January 5 - Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor 1949-1963 (d. 1967)
January 11 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (d. 1971)
January 12 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer
January 12 - Jack London, author (d. 1916)
January 29 - Havergal Brian, composer (d. 1972)
February 19 - Constantin Brancusi, sculptor
March 1 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president
March 2 - Pope Pius XII, (d. 1958)
March 11 - Carl Ruggles, composer (d. 1971)
March 21 - John Tewksbury, American athlete
April 4 - Maurice de Vlaminck, lyricist (d. 1958)
April 22 - Robert_Barany, Nobel Prize winner in medicine
June 5 - Tony Jackson, jazz musician (d. 1920)
August 7 - Mata Hari, exotic dancer/spy
September 15 - Bruno Walter, conductor (d. 1962)
September 16 ÃÂ Marvin Hart, future heavyweight boxing champion (d. 1931)
September 18 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
November 23 - Manuel de Falla, composer (d. 1946)
November 24 - Walter Burley Griffin, architect
December 9 - Berton Churchill, pioneer Hollywood actor (d. 1940)
December 12 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete
December 21 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (d. 1975)
December 25 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan (disputed)
Alfred Stock, German chemist

Deaths

January 16 - Edmund H. Sears, composer
June 21 - Antonio LÃÂ³pez de Santa Anna seven times President of Mexico, penniless in Mexico City.
June 25 - George Armstrong Custer, Lieutenant colonel of the US 7th Cavalry Regiment.
August 6 - George Fruits, the last surviving U.S. veteran of the American Revolutionary War at the age of 114.
October 1 - James Lick, California land baron.