Important Historical Events of the year 1876, Year 1876 in History

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List of 1876 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1876

What happened in the year 1876?

Date	Event
January 15, 1876	The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
February 2, 1876	The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
February 14, 1876	Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
February 24, 1876	The stage première of Peer Gynt, a play by Henrik Ibsen with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Christiania (Oslo), Norway.
February 26, 1876	Japan and Korea sign the Treaty of Kangwha, which grants Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights in Korea, opens three Korean ports to Japanese trade, and ends Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
March 7, 1876	Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
March 10, 1876	The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
April 11, 1876	The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
April 17, 1876	Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
April 20, 1876	The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
April 22, 1876	The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.
May 2, 1876	The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
May 10, 1876	The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
May 30, 1876	Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
June 4, 1876	An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First transcontinental railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
June 17, 1876	American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: One thousand five hundred 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	The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
August 1, 1876	Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
August 8, 1876	Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
August 16, 1876	Richard Wagner's Siegfried, the penultimate opera in his Ring cycle, premieres at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
August 17, 1876	Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, the last opera in his Ring cycle, premieres at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
August 31, 1876	Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
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	The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
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	American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.
December 23, 1876	First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
December 29, 1876	The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.