* 1876 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist ( d. 1937 )

* 1847 – Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Italian wife of Amadeo I of Spain ( d. 1876 )

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 ).

* 1914 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player ( b. 1876 )

* 1924 – Stan Rowley, Australian sprinter ( b. 1876 )

* 1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch spy ( d. 1917 )

* 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

* 1876 – Varghese Payapilly Palakkappilly, Indian-Syrian priest ( d. 1929 )

* 1876 – Alexander I of Serbia ( d. 1903 )

* 1876 – Stylianos Gonatas, Greek military officer and politician ( d. 1966 )

* 1876 – Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator ( d. 1942 )

* 1876 – Julian Ashby Burruss, American academic ( d. 1947 )

* 1876 – Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author ( d. 1958 )

* 1876 – Oscar De Somville, Belgian rower ( d. 1938 )

* 1801 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician ( d. 1876 )

* 1796 – James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder ( d. 1876 )

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

* Alexander I Obrenović of Serbia ( 1876 – 1903 ), king of Serbia

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 )

*** Territory of Colorado, 1861 – 1876

*** State of Colorado, 1876

The Texas and Pacific reached town in 1876 ; the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway ( later merged into the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ) and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway in 1887 ; the Texas Midland ( later Southern Pacific ) in 1894 ; and the Paris and Mount Pleasant ( Pa-Ma Line ) in 1910.

The first name for the settlement was probably Pueblo Colorado, but when Don Lorenzo Hubbell ( Nov 27, 1853-November 12, 1930 ) purchased the post in 1876, he changed the name to Ganado in honor of Ganado Mucho, the last Navajo peace chief and the twelfth signer of the Navajo peace treaty of 1868.

The oldest railway in Texas, the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad chartered on February 11, 1850, as the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway Company built the first Seguin depot in 1876.

The land that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought into the United States became, between 1850 and 1912, all or part of ten states: California ( 1850 ), Nevada ( 1864 ), Utah ( 1896 ), and Arizona ( 1912 ), as well as the whole of, depending upon interpretation, the entire state of Texas ( 1845 ) that then included part of Kansas ( 1861 ), Colorado ( 1876 ), Wyoming ( 1890 ), Oklahoma ( 1907 ), and New Mexico ( 1912 ).

*** Territory of Colorado, 1861 – 1876

*** State of Colorado, 1876

* In 1876 The Solid Muldoon emerged in Beulah, Colorado and was exhibited at 50 cents a ticket.

It is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the union in 1876.

On March 14, 1876, the Colorado territorial legislature passed an amendment to the state constitution that provided money for the establishment of the University of Colorado in Boulder, the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, and Colorado Agricultural College in Fort Collins, now known as Colorado State University.

The college was originally founded in 1873 by the Episcopal Church, but in 1874 control was transferred to the Colorado Territory, and CSM became a state institution when Colorado attained statehood in 1876.

In 1874 the School of Mines, supported by the territorial government since efforts began in 1870, was acquired by the territory and has been a state institution since 1876 when Colorado attained statehood.

On August 1, 1876, Colorado was admitted as a state, maintaining its territorial borders.

The Territory of Colorado was a historic, organized territory of the United States that existed between 1861 and 1876.

The territory ceased to exist when Colorado was admitted to the Union as a state on August 1, 1876.

Settlers continued traveling into the area through 1876, although many of them had great difficulty in crossing the Little Colorado.

Even though a date was never stated, the U. S. flag in the schoolroom scene has 38 stars, placing the film after Colorado became the 38th state on August 1, 1876.

The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.

* 1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.

* 1876 – Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.

* 1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.

Abdülaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876 ; his death at Feriye Palace in Constantinople a few days later was attributed to suicide at the time, although in Sultan Abdulhamid II's recently surfaced memoirs, the event is described as an assassination by the order of Hussein Avni Pasha and Midhat Pasha.

It is based at the Pavillon de Breteuil in Sèvres, France, granted to the Bureau in 1876, where it enjoys extraterritorial status.

Budweiser () is a 5 % abv American-style lager produced by the Belgian-Brazilian beer conglomerate Anheuser – Busch InBev, introduced in 1876 by Adolphus Busch and one of the highest selling beers in the United States.

In 1876, a branch line of the Central Pacific Railroad, the Berkeley Branch Railroad, was laid from a junction with the mainline called Shellmound ( now a part of Emeryville ) into what is now downtown Berkeley.

Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.

In the Impressionist exhibit of 1876 however, art critic Albert Wolf complained in his review, “ Try to make M. Pissarro understand that trees are not violet, that sky is not the color of fresh butter.

The depression is named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger, whose expedition of 1872 – 1876 made the first recordings of its depth.

Diana is also a character in the 1876 Léo Delibes ballet Sylvia.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the English language was in 1876 referring " extensive diaspora work ( as it is termed ) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent ".

The Dewey Decimal Classification ( DDC ), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system created by Melvil Dewey in 1876.

Leonora ( 1846 ) by William Henry Fry, the first European-styled " grand " opera composed in the United States of America, is based on Bulwer-Lytton's play The Lady of Lyons, as is Frederic Cowen's first opera Pauline ( 1876 ).

* 1876 – The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.

She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede ( 1859 ), The Mill on the Floss ( 1860 ), Silas Marner ( 1861 ), Middlemarch ( 1871 – 72 ), and Daniel Deronda ( 1876 ), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

* 1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina

1876 is a well known year in the history of librarianship in the United States.

* 1876 – Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.

* 1876 – New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.

* 1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow.

* 1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed ( better known as Boss Tweed ) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.