1876 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1876?
- January 31, 1876 – The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
- February 19, 1876 – Founding of the National Amateur Press Association (NAPA) in Philadelphia.
- 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.
- April 20, 1876 – The April Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire.
- April 22, 1876 – The first ever National League is played in Philadelphia.
- May 2, 1876 – The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
- May 30, 1876 – Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
- 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.
- 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.
- September 7, 1876 – In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town’s bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
- October 4, 1876 – Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
- October 6, 1876 – The American Library Association was founded.
- October 31, 1876 – A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths.
- 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.
- December 29, 1876 – The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
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