Events

• January 31 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
• February 14 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone.
• February 2 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed
• February 22 - Johns Hopkins University founded
• March 7 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464).
• March 10 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
• August 1 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
• Invention of the four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto
• United States of America Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Abd-ul-Aziz (1861-1876) to Murat V (1876)
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Murat V (1876) to Abd-ul-Hamid II (1876-1909)
• November - U.S. presidential election is held. After long and heated disputes, Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner over Samuel J. Tilden

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1876 in literature:

Births

• January 5 - Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor 1949-1963 (+ 1967
• January 5 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman
• January 12 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer
• January 12 - Jack London, author (+ 1916)
• February 19 - Constantin Brancusi, sculptor
• March 2 - Pope Pius XII, (+ 1958)
• March 4 - Léon-Paul Fargue, poet
• April 4 - Maurice de Vlaminck[?], lyricist (+ 1958)
• September 15 - Bruno Walter, conductor
• November 24 - Walter Burley Griffin, architect
• December 9 - Berton Churchill, pioneer Hollywood actor (+ 1940)
• December 25 - Muhammed Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan (disputed)
• Gdansk - Alfred Stock, German chemist

Deaths

• January 16 - Edmund H. Sears[?], composer