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Chinese New Year of the Fire Rat begins.

January 31 - United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.

February 2 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.

February 3 - Paraguay makes peace with Argentina after the War of the Triple Alliance.

February 22 - Johns Hopkins University founded in Baltimore, Maryland.

March 7 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent
174,465).

March 10 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."

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April 16 - Bulgarian April uprising.

April 17 - Six Fenian prisoners escape from a penal colony in Fremantle, Australia with the aid of ship Catalpa.

May 11-May 12 - Berlin Memorandum - Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary propose an armistice between Turkey and its insurgents.

May 16 - British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli rejects Berlin Memorandum.

May 18 - Wyatt Earp starts work in Dodge City, Kansas, serving under Marshal Larry Deger.d]], 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.

June 17 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud - 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.

June 25 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Little Bighorn. Lieutenant colonel George Armstrong Custer of the US 7th Cavalry Regiment leads a unit of 300 men in battle against the allied forces of Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho, counting 5000 men under the leadership of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The latter emerge victorious.

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July 1 - Serbia declares war on Turkey.

July 2 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey.

July 4 - The United States celebrates its centennial.

July 8 - Reichstadt Agreement between Russia and Austria-Hungary on partitioning the Balkan peninsula.

July 13 - The prosecution of Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman, for using ritualist practices begins.

August 1 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.

August 8 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

August 31 - Murat V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.

September 5 - Gladstone publishes Bulgarian Horrors pamphlet.

September 7 - In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly wiped out.

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October 4 - Texas A&M University, opened for classes.

October 31 - Catastrophic cyclone strikes the east coast of India. 200,000 people lose their lives.

November 2 - An giant squid, 6.1 meters long, washes ashore in Thimble Tickle Bay in Canada

November 7 - The U.S. presidential election is held. After long and heated disputes, Rutherford Birchard Hayes would be declared the winner over Samuel Jones Tilden.

November 23 - Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.

November 25 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (the soldiers destroyed all of the villager's winter food and clothing and then slashed their ponies' throats).

November 29 - Porfirio Díaz becomes President of Mexico.

December 5 - A Brooklyn, New York theater fire kills more than 300.

December 23 - Conference of Constantinople about Ottoman treatment of its ethnic minorities begins.

December 29 - Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 92 dead.

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Charles Wells opened his brewery based in Bedford, England.

Spandau Prison finished.

Invention of the four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto.

United States of America Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

Samurai are banned from carrying swords in Japan.

Harvard Lampoon founded.

The Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland founded.

Lars Magnus Ericsson and Carl Johan Andersson start a small mechanical workshop in Stockholm, Sweden, dealing with telegraphy equipment, which grows into the world-wide company Ericsson.

Big Sable Point Lighthouse is built and lit.

Friends Academy is founded by Gideon Frost

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January 5 - Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1967)

January 12 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (d. 1948)

January 12 - Jack London, American author (d. 1916)

January 20 - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)

January 23 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)

January 29 - Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)

February 12 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (d. 1933)

February 16 - G.M. Trevelyan, British historian (d. 1962)

February 19 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (d. 1957)

March 1 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (d. 1942)

March 2 - Pope Pius XII (d. 1958)

March 4 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)

March 11 - Carl Ruggles, British composer (d. 1971)

March 21 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (d. 1968)

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April 4 - Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter and poet (d. 1958)

April 11 - Paul Henry, Irish artist (d. 1958)

April 22 - Robert Bárány, Hungarian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)

May 10 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918)

May 18 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1931)

June 5 - Tony Jackson, American jazz musician (d. 1920)

June 13 - William Sealy Gosset, English chemist (d. 1937)

July 2 - Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1933)

July 12 - Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)

July 19 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)

August 7 - Mata Hari, exotic dancer and spy (d. 1917)

September 6 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)

September 15 - Bruno Walter, German conductor (d. 1962)

September 16 - Marvin Hart, American boxer (d. 1931)

September 18 - James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1953)

September 26 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (d. 1957)

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October 13 - Rube Waddell, baseball player (d. 1914)

November 2 - William Haywood, British architect (d. 1957)

November 7 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)

November 7 - Culbert Olson, Governor of California (d. 1962)

November 17 - August Sander, German photographer (d. 1964)

November 23 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)

November 24 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (d. 1937)

December 9 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (d. 1940)

December 12 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (d. 1928)

December 21 - Jack Lang, Australian politician (d. 1975)

December 25 - Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (d. 1948)

December 25 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)

December 29 - Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist (d. 1973)

Alfred Stock, German chemist (d. 1946)

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Alfred S. Alschuler, American architect (d. 1940)

Anton Boisen, founder of Clinical Pastoral Education movement (d. 1965)

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January 14 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)

February 18 - Charlotte Cushman, American actress (b. 1816)

May 26 - František Palacký, Czech historian and politician (b. 1798)

June 13 - Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (b. 1814)

June 21 - Antonio López de Santa Anna, President of Mexico (b. 1794)

June 25 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (killed in battle) (b. 1839)

August 2 - Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter and entertainer (b. 1837)

October 1 - James Lick, American land baron (b. 1796)

Abd al-Aziz, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1830)

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1876 was also the year that sports club Académica de Coimbra, from Coimbra, Portugal, was founded

1876 was also the year that football club Port Vale FC were formed

1876 was also the year that Stourbridge Football Club were formed