Today in History for Year 1876

Months in Year 1876: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 119

Jan 1st - The Reichsbank opens in Berlin.
Jan 31st - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
Feb 2nd - Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis
Feb 3rd - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
Feb 7th - Pres Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
Feb 12th - Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop
Feb 14th - A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
Feb 15th - Historic Elm at Boston blown down
Feb 17th - Sardines 1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine)
Feb 18th - Direct telegraph link established between Britain & NZ
Feb 22nd - Johns Hopkins University opens
Feb 24th - Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," premieres in Oslo
Mar 1st - Guernsey Cattle Club forms (Farmington Conn)
Mar 4th - US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
Mar 7th - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
Mar 7th - Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
Mar 10th - 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)
Mar 16th - Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
Mar 17th - 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)
Inventor Alexander Graham Bell Mar 17th - Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps
Mar 25th - Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0)
Apr 1st - 1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5)
Apr 2nd - Philadelphia A's & Boston Red Caps play 1st NL game, in Phila
Apr 8th - Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda," premieres in Milan
Apr 11th - Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks organizes
Apr 11th - Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan
Apr 18th - Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hrs 32 min
Apr 22nd - 1st NL game, Boston Braves beat Phila Athletics 6-5
Apr 22nd - Tsjaikovsky completes his "Swan Lake" ballet
Apr 22nd - Phila Nationals Wes Fisler scores baseball's 1st run
Apr 25th - Chicago Cubs 1st NL game, beats Louisville 4-0 (1st NL shutout)
May 2nd - Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League
May 2nd - The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
May 10th - Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia
May 13th - Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens
May 15th - 2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38.25
US Calvary Commander George Armstrong Custer May 17th - 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln
May 23rd - 1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
May 25th - 1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)
May 25th - 4th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Shirley wins in 2:44.75
May 26th - HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
May 30th - Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
Jun 2nd - Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
Jun 3rd - Lacrosse introduced in Britain & Canada
Jun 4th - 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.
Jun 5th - Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Phila
Jun 10th - 10th Belmont: William Donohue aboard Algerine wins in 2:40.5
Jun 11th - Republicans pick Rutherford B Hayes as presidental candidate
Jun 14th - 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics)
Jun 14th - California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
Jun 15th - Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention
Jun 15th - Tsunami's after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000
Jun 17th - 1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)
Jun 17th - Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother
Jun 25th - Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux & Cheyenne, death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
Jun 27th - 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Phila Athletics)
Jun 27th - Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as presidential candidate
Jun 30th - Serbia declares war on Turkey
Jul 3rd - Montenegro declares war on Turkey
Jul 4th - 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
Jul 4th - Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
Jul 8th - White terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg SC, killing 5
Jul 9th - Black landowner murdered in Hamburg SC
Jul 13th - 29th Postmaster General: James N Tyner of Ind takes office
Jul 15th - Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford
Jul 20th - 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
Jul 31st - US Coast Guard officers' training school established (New Bedford MA)
Aug 1st - Colorado becomes 38th state
Aug 8th - Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m
Inventor Thomas Edison Aug 8th - Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
Aug 10th - 1st phone call between Brantford & Paris, Canada
Aug 12th - Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America's Cup
Aug 13th - Wagner's "Of the Ring," premieres
Aug 14th - Prairie View State University forms
Aug 15th - US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
Aug 16th - Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth
Aug 17th - Opera "Götterdämmerung" premieres in Bayreuth
Aug 24th - Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
Aug 31st - Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
Sep 6th - Race riot in Charleston SC
Sep 6th - Southern Pacific line from LA to SF completed
Sep 7th - Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)
Sep 12th - King Leopold II opens Congo-conference
Sep 14th - Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda
Sep 14th - Leopold II closes Congo-conference
Sep 17th - Race riots in SC
Sep 19th - 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich)
Sep 19th - Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa
Sep 20th - Ottawa Football Club forms
Sep 23rd - Ottawa Rough Riders play their 1st game
Sep 26th - 1st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux)
Oct 6th - American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
Oct 9th - 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
Oct 16th - Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed)
Oct 17th - Henry Morton Stanley's reaches Lualaba River
Oct 23rd - New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
Oct 26th - President sends federal troops to SC
Oct 31st - Cyclone hits Bengal, about 200,000 die
Oct 31st - A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 human deaths.
Nov 1st - King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 168

Jan 1st - Johan C Altorf, sculptor (October 3rd monument)
Jan 1st - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
Jan 3rd - Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/pres (1949-60)
Jan 5th - Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949)
Jan 7th - William Yeates Hurlstone, composer
Jan 9th - Hans Bethge, writer
Jan 10th - Johannes W "Jan" Eisenloeffel, Dutch goldsmith
Jan 11th - Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971)
Jan 12th - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Venice Italy, composer
Jan 12th - Jack London, American writer/socialist (Call of the Wild)
Jan 17th - Olga Fastrova, writer
Jan 17th - Frank Hague, American politician (d. 1956)
Jan 20th - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)
Jan 29th - Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer
Jan 29th - Havergal Brian, Dresden Staffordshire, composer
Feb 3rd - William Tedmarsh, silent movie actor (d. 1937)
Feb 4th - Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls, composer
Feb 6th - Wilhelm Schmidtbonn[-Schmidt], German playwright (Der Sprechende Eros)
Feb 8th - Paula Modersohn-Becker, German "entartet" painter
German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (Jan 5th) Feb 9th - Martin Stixrud, Norway, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1920)
Feb 12th - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (d. 1933)
Feb 13th - Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933)
Feb 16th - George Macauley Trevelyan, England, historian (Giuseppi Garibaldi)
Feb 20th - Fyodor Akimenko, composer
Feb 21st - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian/French sculptor (Princesse X)
Feb 21st - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
Feb 23rd - Agnes M Royden, writer
Feb 23rd - Wadi' Sabra, composer
Feb 24th - Jean Poveigh, composer
Feb 24th - Victor Moore, Hammonton NJ, comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, 7 Year Itch)
Feb 25th - Charles Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1856]
Feb 26th - Agustin P Justo y Rolon, pres Argentina (1931-38)
Feb 26th - Pauline Musters, smallest man (1'11.2" (58.9 cm))
Feb 28th - John Alden Carpenter, Chicago Illinois, composer (Sea Drift)
Mar 1st - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president (d. 1942)
Mar 2nd - Pius XII, [Euhenio MGG Pacelli], 260th Pope (1939-58)
Mar 4th - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
Mar 4th - Theodore Hardeen, Magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magician's Guild (d. 1945)
Mar 8th - Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio)
Mar 11th - Carl Ruggles, Marion Mass, composer (Evocations)
Mar 11th - David Wijnkoop, Dutch revolutionary socialist
Mar 16th - Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)
Mar 17th - Frederic Ayers, composer
Mar 20th - Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1927)
Mar 21st - John Tewksbury, American athlete (d. 1968)
Mar 23rd - Muirhead Bone, Glasgow Scotland, etcher/engraver of architecture
Mar 26th - Prince William of Wied (d. 1945)
Mar 29th - Jan Ingenhoven, composer
Mar 29th - Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian/antifascist
Mar 30th - Clifford Whittingham Beers, US, mental hygiene pioneer
Mar 31st - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (d. 1927)
Apr 4th - Maurice de Vlaminck, Paris, Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow)
Apr 5th - Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer
Apr 11th - Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (d. 1958)
Apr 14th - Murray Bisset, cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1899 & 1910)
Apr 17th - Ian Hay, Scotland, novelist/playwright (PIp, Carrying On)
Apr 19th - Hendrik W A E, duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin/king of Netherlands
Apr 20th - Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Prince William of Orange)
Apr 22nd - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)
Apr 23rd - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925)
Apr 24th - Ioannis Georgiadis, Greek fencer (d. 1960)
Apr 24th - Erich Raeder, German naval commander (d. 1960)
Apr 25th - Ruben Marcos Campos, composer
Apr 28th - Frank Cavanagh, one of football's coaching greats
Apr 29th - Zauditu of Ethiopia (d. 1930)
Apr 30th - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (d. 1937)
May 3rd - Bert Hopkins, cricketer (Australian pace bowler of the 1900's)
May 3rd - John Elicius Benedict B P Quick Carrington Dwyer, cricketer (Sussex)
May 10th - Ivan Cankar, Slavs author (Hlapec Jernej-Njegova Pravica)
May 12th - Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria
May 13th - Raoul Laparra, composer
May 17th - Alban Collignon, Belgian sport journalist
May 20th - John Owen Jones, composer
May 26th - Jack Root, boxing's 1st light heavyweight champion
May 27th - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (d. 1945)
Jun 2nd - Hakon Borresen, composer
Jun 4th - Robert Dower, cricketer (1 Test South Africa v England 1898, scored 0 & 9)
Jun 5th - Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
Jun 11th - Alfred L Kroeber, Hoboken NJ, author (Anthropologist looks at History)
Jun 12th - Narciso Garay, composer
Jun 13th - William Sealey Gosset, English chemist, statistician (d. 1937)
Jun 21st - Willem H Keesom, physicist (helium vast)
Jun 23rd - Irvin S Cobb, Ky, writer/humorist (Old Judge Priest)
Jun 26th - Nico[laas P] de Jong, Dutch radio play actor (Laughter & Tears)
Jun 29th - Nellie Taylor Ross, 1st woman to serve as a gov (Wyoming, 1925-27)
Jul 2nd - Wilhelm Cuno, German ship owner/republic chancellor (1922-23)
Jul 4th - William Farnum, Boston MA, actor (Spoilers, Man who Fights Alone)
Jul 12th - Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
Jul 17th - Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat
Jul 17th - Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, Georgia, lived to be 115 (died in 1991)
Jul 17th - Vittorio Gnecchi, composer
Jul 19th - Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
Jul 19th - John Gunn, Former England cricketer (d. 1963)
Jul 20th - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944)
Jul 23rd - William Gillies Whittaker, composer
Jul 26th - Ernest Schelling, Belvidere NJ, composer/conductor (Victory Ball)
Jul 29th - Maria Ouspenskaya, Tula Russia, actress (Waterloo Bridge)
Aug 5th - Mary R Beard, Indianapolis, historian (Woman as a Force in History)
Aug 7th - Mata Hari, [Margaretha G Zelle], dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I)
Aug 12th - Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer (Miss Pinkerton)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Dec 29th - Frederic A Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty sculptor) weds Jeanne-Emilie

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 68 of 68

Jan 7th - Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
Jan 9th - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
Jan 10th - Charles EH de Coussemaker, Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70
Jan 15th - Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
Feb 3rd - Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83
Feb 10th - Johan August Soderman, composer, dies at 43
Feb 21st - Henry John Gauntlett, composer, dies at 70
Feb 24th - Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
Feb 24th - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
Feb 28th - Charles Edward Horsley, composer, dies at 53
Mar 4th - Alfred Holmes, composer, dies at 38
Mar 5th - Marie d'Agoult, [pen name Daniel Stern], French author and mother of composer Franz Liszt's children, dies at 70
Mar 18th - F Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65
Mar 19th - Jozef Stefani, composer, dies at 75
Apr 2nd - Paul van Vlissingen, Dutch ship owner, dies at 78
Apr 3rd - Henriette Davidis, writer, dies
Apr 9th - Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804)
Apr 16th - Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer, dies at 83
Apr 19th - Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer, dies at 65
May 7th - Franz count of Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69
May 7th - William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795)
May 8th - Truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies
May 12th - Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63
May 12th - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)
May 19th - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian/politician, dies at 74
May 20th - Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 8 days old
May 20th - Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies
May 24th - Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46
May 24th - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1843)
May 26th - Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian/MP, dies at 77
May 27th - Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies
Jun 1st - Christo Botew, writer, dies
Jun 7th - George Sand, writer, dies at 71
Jun 8th - George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71
Jun 18th - August Rockel, composer, dies at 61
Jun 20th - Antonio L de Santa Ana, pres Mexico, dies at 79
Jun 21st - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79
Jun 25th - Boston Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn
US Calvary Commander George Armstrong Custer (Jun 25th) Jun 25th - George A Custer, US general (Little Bighorn), dies at 36
Jun 25th - John Patton, trumpeter, dies at Little Bighorn
Jun 25th - Lame White Man, Cheyenne, dies at Little Bighorn
Jun 25th - Myles Keogh, US officer, dies at Little Bighorn
Jun 25th - Thomas W Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn
Jun 27th - Christian G Ehrenberg, German zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81
Jun 28th - August W Ambros, Austria musicologist, dies at 59
Jul 8th - Josef Dessauer, composer, dies at 78
Jul 11th - Ottho G Heldring, vicar (H-gestichten), dies at 72
Jul 14th - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
Jul 15th - Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Zemstra), dies at 82
Jul 24th - Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66
Aug 2nd - Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces & a pair of 8's
Aug 19th - George Smith, English assyriologist (script), dies at 36
Sep 3rd - Felix, cricketer (legendary All-England player), dies
Folk Hero of the American Old West Wild Bill Hickok (Aug 2nd) Sep 5th - Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
Sep 9th - American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle
Sep 25th - A Glabbrenner, writer, dies at 66
Sep 27th - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
Oct 1st - Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer, dies at 77
Oct 1st - James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
Oct 10th - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
Oct 18th - Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85
Oct 20th - Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 68
Oct 29th - Jacques Gregoir, composer, dies at 59
Nov 6th - Giacomo Antonelli, secretary of state of Pius IX, dies at 70
Nov 7th - Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65
Nov 28th - Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist, dies at 84
Dec 3rd - Hermann Goetz, composer, dies at 35
Dec 20th - Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US