1876

1876 is a Leap year starting on Saturday.

Events

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 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 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.
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 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.
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 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 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.

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
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.