1876

1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday.

Years: 1873 1874 1875 - 1876 - 1877 1878 1879
Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Events

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."

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 11-12 - 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 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.

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.