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* 1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1, 500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
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In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).
Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević
By French aristocrat Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan ( 1876 – 1937 ), he had Roger Marie Vincent Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin ( 12 September 1905 – 20 July 1980 )
1876 and American
* 1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics ( d. 1958 )
Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.
* Harper's Weekly 150 cartoons on elections 1860-1912 ; Reconstruction topics ; Chinese exclusion ; plus American Political Prints from the Library of Congress, 1766 – 1876
Illegal and experimental forward passes had been attempted as early as 1876, but the first legal forward pass in American football took place in 1906, after a change in rules.
Among the longest single poems in American literature, Clarel, published in 1876, had an initial printing of only 350 copies.
1876 and Indian
Entering the Indian education department in 1870, he became professor of English literature in Delhi College in 1873, tutor to the Raja of Rutlam in 1876, and principal of the Rajkumar College at Indore in 1877.
During the British Raj, famines in India, often attributed to failed government policies, were some of the worst ever recorded, including the Great Famine of 1876 – 78 in which 6. 1 million to 10. 3 million people died and the Indian famine of 1899 – 1900 in which 1. 25 to 10 million people died.
* 1876 – American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the 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.
Other notable famines include the Great Famine of 1876 – 78, in which 6. 1 million to 10. 3 million people died and the Indian famine of 1899 – 1900, in which 1. 25 to 10 million people died.
The Yavapai and Apache tribes were forcibly removed from the Verde Valley in 1876, to the San Carlos Indian Reservation, 180 miles southeast.
George Armstrong Custer ( December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876 ) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.
They named the town Mount Pleasant when it was incorporated in 1876 due to the presence of a nearby Indian burial mound.
Forsyth was established in 1876 as the first settlement on the Yellowstone River, and in 1882 residents named the town after General James William Forsyth who commanded Fort Maginnis, Montana during the Indian Wars and the 7th Cavalry at the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Forsyth was established as a settlement on the Yellowstone in 1876 as a steamboat landing supporting United States Army operations in the Indian Wars.
The first issue of the Indian Journal was published in 1876 said to be one of the first paper in Indian Territory ( OK ).
When Stephen Powers visited the northern Paiute to collect Indian materials for the Smithsonian Institution in preparation for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, he reported that the northern Paiute wrapped their hair in strips of beaver fur, made medicine from parts of beaver and that their creation legend included beaver.
* Myles Keogh-American Civil War military officer and later Captain of Company I, U. S. 7th Cavalry Regiment-Fought in Indian Wars and was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
* He was also president of the board of regents of the University of Minnesota, and president of the Board of Indian Commissioners from 1875 – 1876.
Many of the Indian leaders and army officers who participated in the Battle of Honsinger Bluff were present at the more famous Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876, three years later.
After remaining idle for more than two weeks on Goose Creek, on July 6, 1876 General George Crook ordered Lt. Frederick W. Sibley to take 25 men and two scouts, Big Bat Pourier and Frank Grouard, and make a reconnaissance to the north to locate the hostile Indian forces.
** Red Cloud Cemetery: location of the grave of Chief Red Cloud, as well as Bloody Knife ( 1840 – 1876 ), Chief of the Indian Scouts of the 7th Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer.
Indian sovereignty over the Powder River country endured only eight years until the Great Sioux War of 1876.
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