1876

Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s

Years: 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 - 1876 - 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881

Events

• January 31 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
• February 14 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone.
• February 2 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed
• 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."
• May 30 - Abd-ul-Aziz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
• 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 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 Díaz becomes President of Mexico.
• Invention of the four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto
• United States of America Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

Year in topic

• 1876 in literature
• 1876 in science

Births

• January 5 - Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor 1949-1963 (+ 1967)
• January 12 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer
• January 12 - Jack London, author (+ 1916)
• January 29 - Havergal Brian, composer (+ 1972)
• February 19 - Constantin Brancusi, sculptor
• March 1 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president
• March 2 - Pope Pius XII, (+ 1958)
• March 4 - Léon-Paul Fargue, poet
• March 11 - Carl Ruggles, composer (+ 1971)
• April 4 - Maurice de Vlaminck, lyricist (+ 1958)
• April 22 - Robert_Barany, Nobel Prize winner in medicine
• August 7 - Mata Hari, exotic dancer/spy
• September 15 - Bruno Walter, conductor (+ 1962)
• November 23 - Manuel de Falla, composer (+ 1946)
• November 24 - Walter Burley Griffin, architect
• December 9 - Berton Churchill, pioneer Hollywood actor (+ 1940)
• December 12 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete
• December 25 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan (disputed)
• Gdansk - Alfred Stock, German chemist

Deaths

• January 16 - Edmund H. Sears, composer
• October 1 - James Lick, California land baron
• George Fruits, the last surviving U.S. veteran of the American Revolutionary War at the age of 114.

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