Notable Historical Events - 1876
1876 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. |
Jan 31 |
The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations. |
Feb 2 |
Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis |
Feb 3 |
Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football |
Feb 7 |
Pres Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring |
Feb 12 |
Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop |
Feb 14 |
A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor |
Feb 15 |
Historic Elm at Boston blown down |
Feb 17 |
Sardines 1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine) |
Feb 18 |
Direct telegraph link established between Britain & New Zealand |
Feb 22 |
Johns Hopkins University opens |
Feb 24 |
Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," premieres in Oslo |
Mar 1 |
Guernsey Cattle Club forms (Farmington Conn) |
Mar 4 |
US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap |
Mar 7 |
Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone |
Mar 7 |
Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians |
Mar 10 |
1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) |
Mar 16 |
Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY) |
Mar 17 |
1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks) |
Mar 17 |
Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps |
Mar 25 |
Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0) |
Apr 1 |
1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5) |
Apr 2 |
Philadelphia A's & Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Phila |
Apr 8 |
Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda" premieres in Milan |
Apr 11 |
Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks organizes |
Apr 11 |
Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan |
Apr 18 |
Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hrs 32 min |
Apr 22 |
1st NL game, Boston Braves beat Phila Athletics 6-5 |
Apr 22 |
Tsjaikovsky completes his "Swan Lake" ballet |
Apr 22 |
Phila Nationals Wes Fisler scores baseball's 1st run |
Apr 25 |
Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout) |
May 2 |
Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League |
May 2 |
The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria. |
May 10 |
Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia |
May 13 |
Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens |
May 15 |
2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38.25 |
May 17 |
7th US Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer leaves Ft Lincoln |
May 23 |
1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston) |
May 25 |
1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14) |
May 25 |
4th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Shirley wins in 2:44.75 |
May 26 |
HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration |
May 30 |
Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V. |
Jun 2 |
Hristo Botev, a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary, is killed in Stara Planina |
Jun 3 |
Lacrosse introduced in Britain & Canada |
Jun 4 |
An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City. |
Jun 5 |
Bananas become popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia |
Jun 10 |
10th Belmont: William Donohue aboard Algerine wins in 2:40.5 |
Jun 11 |
Republicans pick Rutherford B. Hayes as US presidental candidate |
Jun 14 |
1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics) |
Jun 14 |
California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise |
Jun 15 |
Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention |
Jun 15 |
Tsunamis after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000 |
Jun 17 |
1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's) |
Jun 17 |
Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother |
Jun 25 |
Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel (sometime Brevet Major General) George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne, Custer killed |
Jun 27 |
1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Phila Athletics) |
Jun 27 |
Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate |
Jun 30 |
Serbia declares war on Turkey |
Jul 3 |
Montenegro declares war on Turkey |
Jul 4 |
1st public exhibition of electric light in SF |
Jul 4 |
Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty |
Jul 8 |
White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg SC, killing 5 |
Jul 9 |
Black landowner murdered in Hamburg SC |
Jul 13 |
29th US Postmaster General: James N Tyner of Ind takes office |
Jul 15 |
Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford |
Jul 20 |
1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins |
Jul 31 |
US Coast Guard officers' training school established (New Bedford MA) |
Aug 1 |
Colorado becomes 38th state of the Union |
Aug 8 |
Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m |
Aug 8 |
Thomas Edison patents mimeograph |
Aug 10 |
1st phone call between Brantford & Paris, Canada |
Aug 12 |
Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup |
Aug 13 |
The Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with the first complete performance of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle |
Aug 14 |
Prairie View State University forms |
Aug 15 |
US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find |
Aug 16 |
Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth |
Aug 17 |
Wagner's opera "Götterdämmerung" premieres in Bayreuth |
Aug 24 |
Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed |
Aug 31 |
Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II. |
Sep 6 |
Race riot in Charleston SC |
Sep 6 |
Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed |
Sep 7 |
Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested) |
Sep 12 |
King Leopold II opens Congo-conference |
Sep 14 |
Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda |
Sep 14 |
Leopold II closes Congo-conference |
Sep 17 |
Race riots in SC |
Sep 19 |
1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich) |
Sep 19 |
Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa |
Sep 20 |
Ottawa Football Club forms |
Sep 23 |
Ottawa Rough Riders play their 1st game |
Sep 26 |
1st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux) |
Oct 6 |
American Library Association organized in Philadelphia |
Oct 9 |
1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires |
Oct 16 |
Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed) |
Oct 17 |
Henry Morton Stanley's reaches Lualaba River |
Oct 23 |
New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office |
Oct 26 |
President sends federal troops to SC |
Oct 31 |
Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 ravages British India (Modern-day Bangladesh), resulting in over 200,000 human deaths. |
Nov 1 |
King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden) |
Nov 1 |
New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved. |
Nov 4 |
John Brahms' 1st Symphony in C premieres |
Nov 5 |
Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe |
Nov 7 |
Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to receive a PhD from a US college (Yale) |
Nov 7 |
Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennesse College |
Nov 7 |
Pres Rutherford B. Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R) |
Nov 17 |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people. |
Nov 21 |
Skirmish between HM Stanley's expedition & natives |
Nov 23 |
Columbia, Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association |
Nov 25 |
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. |
Dec 5 |
Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench |
Dec 5 |
Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death |
Dec 6 |
1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn |
Dec 6 |
City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time |
Dec 6 |
US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won) |
Dec 7 |
NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked |
Dec 8 |
Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years |
Dec 23 |
Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed |
Dec 29 |
11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die |
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