What Happened in 1876 — Events, Births & Deaths

The Plan of Tuxtepec is announced.

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

The stage première of Peer Gynt, a play by Henrik Ibsen with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Christiania (Oslo), Norway.

Japan and Korea sign the Treaty of Kangwha, which grants Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights in Korea, opens three Korean ports to Japanese trade, and ends Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.

Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".

The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.

Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.

The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.

The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.

The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.

The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.

Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.

An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco via the first transcontinental railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.

American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: One thousand five hundred Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.

American Indian Wars: Battle of the Little Bighorn: 300 men of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5,000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho, led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.

A performance of Wagner's Das Rheingold opens the first Ring cycle at the first Bayreuth Festival.

The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now known as Texas A&M) opens as the first public college in Texas.

American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.

First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.

The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.