1876 Calendar
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1876 Historical Event(s)
March 7, 1876
– Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
March 10, 1876
– Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
April 20, 1876
– The April Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire.
May 2, 1876
– The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
June 2, 1876
– Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
June 4, 1876
– An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
July 8, 1876
– White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC.
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.
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 5, 1876
– Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, NY.
Who Were Born On 1876?
January 29, 1876
– Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)
February 21, 1876
– Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
April 30, 1876
– Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (d. 1937)
July 19, 1876
– Joseph Fielding Smith, American religious figure (d. 1972)
August 15, 1876
– Stylianos Gonatas, Greek military officer and politician (d. 1966)
August 16, 1876
– Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (d. 1942)
September 5, 1876
– Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
October 6, 1876
– Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941)
October 13, 1876
– Rube Waddell, American baseball player (d. 1914)
December 25, 1876
– Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1959)