1876 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1876?
- January 31, 1876 – The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
- February 1, 1876 – A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Pennsylvanian Irish anti-owner coal miners, the “Molly Maguires”, to disband.
- February 2, 1876 – The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
- February 19, 1876 – Founding of the National Amateur Press Association (NAPA) in Philadelphia.
- February 26, 1876 – Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea’s status as a tributary state of Qing Dynasty China.
- March 7, 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
- March 10, 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
- April 11, 1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
- May 2, 1876 – The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
- June 4, 1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
- June 17, 1876 – Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook’s forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
- June 25, 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
- July 8, 1876 – White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
- August 1, 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
- August 8, 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
- October 6, 1876 – The American Library Association was founded.
- November 1, 1876 – New Zealand’s provincial government system is dissolved.
- November 17, 1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow.
- November 25, 1876 – Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife’s sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
- December 29, 1876 – The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
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