1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday.

Events

January-March

• Chinese New Year of the Fire Rat begins.
• January 31 - 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 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 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 10 - The town of Springerville, Arizona is given its official name.
• 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, 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-September

• July 1 - Serbia declares war on Turkey
• July 2 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
• July 4 - United States Centennial See: 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.
• 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, 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 is held. After long and heated disputes, 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 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 - 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 bridge disaster, 64 injured, 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.

Unknown dates

• Charles Wells opened his brewery based in Bedford, England.
• Spandau Prison finished
• Invention of the four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto
• United States of America Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
• Samurai are banned from carrying swords in Japan.
• Harvard Lampoon founded.
• Heinz Ketchup introduced.
• 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.

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 laureate (d. 1954)
• January 29 - Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)
• February 12 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (d. 1933)
• February 16 - G.M. Trevelyan, British historian (d. 1962)
• 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, French painter and poet (d. 1958)
• April 11 - Paul Henry, Irish artist (d. 1958)
• April 22 - Robert Bárány, Hungarian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
• May 10 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918)
• May 18 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1931)
• June 5 - Tony Jackson, American jazz musician (d. 1920)
• June 13 - William Sealy Gosset, English chemist (d. 1937)
• July 2 - Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
• July 12 - Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
• July 19 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of 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 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)

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, Australian politician (d. 1975)
• December 25 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder and Father of the Nation of Pakistan, he is one three brothers and the youngest son to Poonja, his youngest sister is the Mother of the Nation (d. 1948)
• December 25 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• December 29 - Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist (d. 1973)
• Alfred Stock, German chemist (d. 1946)

Unknown date

• Alfred S. Alschuler, American architect (d. 1940)

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 13 - Mikhail Bakunin, Anarchist (b. 1814)
• 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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