* 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 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U. S. state.

* 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 )

The end of the samurai era in the 1860s, along with the 1876 ban on wearing swords in public, marked the end of any practical use for mail and other armour in Japan.

After a rapidly modernizing Japan forced Korea to open its ports in 1876, it successfully challenged the Qing Empire in the Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 1895 ).

Kudzu was introduced from Japan into the United States at the Japanese pavilion in the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

Under the unequal Treaty of Ganghwa, which the Koreans signed with reluctance in 1876, Japan was allowed to send diplomatic missions to Hanseong, and opened trading posts in Incheon and Wonsan.

On February 27, 1876, after certain incidents and confrontations involving Korean isolationists and the Japanese, Japan imposed the Japan – Korea Treaty of 1876 ; forcing Korea to open itself to Japanese and foreign trade and to proclaim its independence from China in its foreign relations.

Kuroda was dispatched as an envoy to Korea in 1875, and negotiated the Japan – Korea Treaty of 1876.

In 1876, at the age of twenty-seven, Kiyoura joined the Ministry of Justice, and served as a prosecutor and helping draft Japan ’ s first modern Criminal procedures laws.

* Ryūkyū Kingdom ( 1644 – 1879, in 1876 the Ryūkyū Kingdom ceased all diplomatic relation with Qing China and in 1879 was abolished by Japan )

He concluded the Chefoo Convention with Sir Thomas Wade ( 1876 ), and thus ended the difficulty caused by the murder of Mr. Margary in Yunnan ; he arranged treaties with Peru and the Convention of Tientsin with Japan, and he directed the Chinese policy in Korea.

However, in 1876, Korea established a trade treaty with Japan after Japanese ships approached Ganghwado and threatened to fire on Seoul.

* Famous Generals of Japan ( 1876 – 1882 )

Japan, after the Meiji Restoration, had acquired Western military technology and had forced Joseon to sign the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1876.

* National Archives of Japan: Map of Meiji Tokyo, showing 11 large districts and 103 small districts on map published in 1876, ( Meiji 9 ).

* National Archives of Japan, Digital Gallery: Marine survey chart: Tokyo bay, Kuwanonsaki to Koshiba, published 1876

The treaty was signed on 15 February 1876, thus opening Korea to Japan.

In 1876, Clark was invited by the government of Japan to establish the Sapporo Agricultural College, now Hokkaido University.

, meaning traditional school, or old school, refers specifically to schools of martial arts, originating in Japan, either prior to the beginning of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, or the Haitōrei edict in 1876.

In 1876 during the Meiji period, satsumas were brought to the United States from the Satsuma Province in Kyūshū, Japan by a spouse of a member of the U. S. Embassy.

This forced Korea to open its doors to Japan by signing the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1876.

François Léonce Verny, ( December 2, 1837 – May 2, 1908 ) was a French officer and naval engineer who directed the construction of the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in Japan, as well as many related modern infrastructure projects from 1865 to 1876, thus helping jump-start Japan's modernization.

He left Tokyo in 1876 and served as Diplomatic Secretary in St Petersburg, Constantinople and Paris before being appointed Parkes's successor in Japan.