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Year 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1876
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April - June
July - September
Punch cartoon from June 17. Russia preparing to let slip the Balkan "Dogs of War" to attack Turkey, while policeman John Bull ( Britain) warns Russia to take care. The Balkans would attack Turkey two weeks later.
October - December
- October 4 - Texas A&M University opens for classes.
- October 31 - A catastrophic cyclone strikes the east coast of India, killing 200,000.
- November 2 - A giant squid, 6.1 meters long, washes ashore at Thimble Tickle Bay in Newfoundland.
- November 7 - U.S. presidential election, 1876: After long and heated disputes, Rutherford Birchard Hayes is eventually declared the winner over Samuel Jones Tilden.
- November 10 - The Centennial Exposition ends in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 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 S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (the soldiers destroy all of the villagers' winter food and clothing, and then slash their ponies' throats).
- November 29 - Porfirio Díaz becomes President of Mexico.
- December 5 - A Brooklyn, New York theater fire kills more than 300.
- December 6 - The first cremation in the United States takes place in a crematory built by Francis Julius LeMoyne.
- December 29 - The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 92 dead.
Undated
- Charles Wells opens his brewery based in Bedford, England.
- Lyford House, by Richardson Bay, Tiburon, California is constructed.
- Construction of Spandau Prison is completed.
- The four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine is invented by Nikolaus Otto.
- Samurai are banned from carrying swords in Japan.
- The samurai's stipends are replaced by one-time grants of income bearings bonds.
- Japan brings a fleet to Inchon, the port of Seoul. The Japanese force the Korean government to sign an unequal treaty, open 3 ports to Japanese trade and cease considering itself a tributary of China. On China's urging Korea also signs treaties with the European powers in effort to counterbalance Japan.
- The Harvard Lampoon is founded.
- The Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland is founded.
- Lars Magnus Ericsson and Carl Johan Andersson start a small mechanical workshop in Stockholm, Sweden, dealing with telegraphy equipment, which grows into the worldwide company Ericsson.
- Friends Academy is founded by Gideon Frost.
- Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is first published.
- Adolphus Busch's brewery, Anheuser Bush, first markets Budweiser, a pale lager, as a nationally sold beer.
- Tanzimat ends in the Ottoman Empire.
- The Clontarf Cricket Club is established. The 2008 2nd XI calls their assault on all Senior II competitions "Operation 1876" in honour of this fantastic year.
Births
January - June
- January 5 - Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1967)
- January 12
- January 20 - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)
- January 23 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
- January 29 - Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)
- February 12 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (d. 1933)
- February 16
- February 19 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957)
- March 1 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (d. 1942)
- March 2 - Pope Pius XII (d. 1958)
- March 4
- March 11 - Carl Ruggles, American composer (d. 1971)
- March 21 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (d. 1968)
- March 26 - Prince William of Wied, sovereign Prince of Albania (d. 1945)
- March 31 - Borisav "Bora" Stankovic, Serbian writer (d. 1927)
- April 3 - Margaret Anglin, Canadian stage actress (d. 1958)
- April 4 - Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter and poet (d. 1958)
- April 11 - Paul Henry, Irish artist (d. 1958)
- April 22 - Robert Bárány, Hungarian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
- May 10 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918)
- May 18 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1931)
- June 5 - Tony Jackson, American jazz musician (d. 1920)
- June 13 - William Sealy Gosset, English chemist (d. 1937)
July - December
- July 2 - Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)
- July 12 - Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
- July 16 - Alfred Stock, German chemist (d. 1946)
- July 19 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
- August 7 - Mata Hari, exotic dancer and spy (d. 1917)
- August 25 - Eglantyne Jebb, co-founder of the Save the Children Fund and champion of children's human rights (d. 1928)
- September 1 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)
- September 6 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
- September 15 - Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)
- September 16 - Marvin Hart, American boxer (d. 1931)
- September 18 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)
- September 26 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (d. 1957)
- October 13 - Rube Waddell, baseball player (d. 1914)
- November 2 - William Haywood, British architect (d. 1957)
- November 7
- November 17 - August Sander, German photographer (d. 1964)
- November 23 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
- November 24 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (d. 1937)
- December 9 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (d. 1940)
- December 12 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (d. 1928)
- December 21 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (d. 1975)
- December 25
- December 29 - Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist (d. 1973)
- date unknown
Deaths
January - June
- January 3 - Pierre Larousse, grammarian (b. 1817)
- January 10 - Gordon Granger, American General (b. 1822)
- February 18 - Charlotte Cushman, American actress (b. 1816)
- April 9 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804)
- May 7 - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795)
- May 8 - Truganini, the last Tasmanian Aboriginal (b. c. 1812)
- May 24 - Henry Kingsley, English novelist (b. 1830)
- May 26 - František Palacký, Czech historian and politician (b. 1798)
- June 4 - Abdülâziz, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1830)
- June 6 - Auguste Casimir-Perier, French diplomat (b. 1811)
- June 7 - Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway (b. 1807)
- June 21 - Antonio López de Santa Anna, President of Mexico (b. 1794)
- June 25 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (in battle) (b. 1839)
July - December
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