1876 - What happened in 1876 ?

January 1876

Monday 31:

The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.

February 1876

Wednesday 02:

The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.

Monday 14:

Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone. So did Elisha Gray.

Tuesday 22:

Johns Hopkins University is founded in Baltimore, Maryland.

March 1876

Tuesday 07:

Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464).

Friday 10:

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

April 1876

Tuesday 11:

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized

May 1876

Thursday 18:

Wyatt Earp starts work in Dodge City, Kansas under Marshall Larry Deger.

Tuesday 30:

Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.

June 1876

Sunday 04:

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.

Saturday 17:

1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory. http://ne.essortment.com/battlerosebud_rfks.htm

Sunday 25:

Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

August 1876

Tuesday 01:

Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.

Tuesday 08:

Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

Thursday 31:

Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.

September 1876

Thursday 07:

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 killed.

November 1876

Wednesday 01:

New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.

Thursday 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.

Saturday 25:

Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic 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 1876

Friday 29:

The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster, 64 injured, 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.