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 14, 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
- February 19, 1876 – Founding of the National Amateur Press Association (NAPA) in Philadelphia.
- March 10, 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
- 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 2, 1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
- 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.
- August 31, 1876 – Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
- October 6, 1876 – The American Library Association was founded.
- November 1, 1876 – New Zealand’s provincial government system is dissolved.
- November 23, 1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
- 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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