1876 Calendar
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1876 Historical Event(s)
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.
April 22, 1876
– The first ever National League is played in Philadelphia.
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.
June 25, 1876
– Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
August 1, 1876
– Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
August 8, 1876
– Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
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.
December 29, 1876
– The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
Who Were Born On 1876?
February 12, 1876
– Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (1879-his death) (d. 1933)
March 4, 1876
– Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
June 13, 1876
– William Sealey Gosset, English chemist, statistician (d. 1937)
August 29, 1876
– Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
September 5, 1876
– Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician. (d. 1944)
September 7, 1876
– C.J. Dennis, Australian poet and writer (d. 1938)
September 15, 1876
– Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian novelist (d. 1938)
October 8, 1876
– Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, British Labour politician (d. 1966)
November 7, 1876
– Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
December 9, 1876
– Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)