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1876

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Table of contents
1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 31 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.\n* February 2 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.\n* February 14 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone.\n* February 22 - Johns Hopkins University founded in Baltimore, Maryland.\n* March 7 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464).\n* March 10 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."\n* April 17 - Six Fenian prisoners escape from a penal colony in Fremantle, Australia with the aid of ship Catalpa.\n* May 1 - Turks crush uprising of Bulgar Slavs\n* May 11-12 - Berlin Memorandum - Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary propose armistice between Turkey and its insurgents\n* May 16 - British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli rejects Berlin Memorandum\n* May 30 - Abd-ul-Aziz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.\n* June 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.\n* 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.\n* 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.\n* July 1 - Serbia declares war on Turkey\n* July 2 - Montenegro declares war on Turkey\n* July 4 - United States Centennial\n* July 8 - Reichstadt Agreement between Russia and Austria-Hungary on partitioning the Balkan peninsular.\n* August 1 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.\n* August 8 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.\n* August 31 - Murat V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.\n* September 5 - Gladstone publishes Bulgarian Horrors pamphlet\n* 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.\n* November 7 - U.S. presidential election is held. After long and heated disputes, Rutherford Birchard Hayes would be declared the winner over Samuel Jones Tilden.\n* 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.\n*November 29 - Porfirio Díaz becomes President of Mexico\n* December 5 - Fire in theater in Brooklyn, New York City, kills more than 300\n* December 23 - Conference of Constantinople about Ottoman treatment of its ethnic minorities begins \n* Spandau Prison finished\n* Paraguay makes peace with Argentina\n* Invention of the four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto\n* United States of America Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

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