1876

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s

Years: 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 - 1876 - 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881

Events

January 31 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
February 14 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone.
February 2 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed
February 22 - Johns Hopkins University founded
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."
August 1 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
Invention of the four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto
United States of America Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Abd-ul-Aziz (1861-1876) to Murat V (1876)
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Murat V (1876) to Abd-ul-Hamid II (1876-1909)
November - U.S. presidential election is held. After long and heated disputes, Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner over Samuel J. Tilden

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

1876 in literature:

Births

January 5 - Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor 1949-1963 (+ 1967
January 5 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman
January 12 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer
January 12 - Jack London, author (+ 1916)
February 19 - Constantin Brancusi, sculptor
March 2 - Pope Pius XII, (+ 1958)
March 4 - Léon-Paul Fargue, poet
April 4 - Maurice de Vlaminck[?], lyricist (+ 1958)
September 15 - Bruno Walter, conductor
November 24 - Walter Burley Griffin, architect
December 9 - Berton Churchill, pioneer Hollywood actor (+ 1940)
December 25 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan (disputed)
Gdansk - Alfred Stock, German chemist

Deaths

January 16 - Edmund H. Sears[?], composer

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