* 1876 – Texas A & M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.

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.

Henry Smith ( born 1876 ) was an African-American who was tortured and murdered at a public, heavily attended and promoted lynching on February 1, 1893 at the Paris Fairgrounds in Paris, Texas.

The Galveston News said on 2 May 1876 that Denison Texas had a Polo Club which was before James Gordon Bennett established his Westchester Club or attempted to play the " first " game.

John Warne Gates demonstrated barbed wire for Washburn and Moen in Military Plaza, San Antonio, Texas in 1876.

In 1876, the Texas and Pacific Railway arrived in Fort Worth, causing a boom and transforming the Fort Worth Stockyards into a premier cattle industry in wholesale trade.

During this golden era of Galveston's history, the city was home to a number of state firsts that include among others the first post office ( 1836 ), the first naval base ( 1836 ), the first Texas chapter of a Masonic order ( 1840 ); the first cotton compress ( 1842 ), the first parochial school ( Ursuline Academy ) ( 1847 ), the first insurance company ( 1854 ), the first gas lights ( 1856 ), the first opera house ( 1870 ), the first orphanage ( 1876 ), the first telephone ( 1878 ) and the first electric lights ( 1883 ).

Gray's new map of Texas and Indian Territory ( c. 1876 )

An 1876 area rancher meeting in Graham, regarding cattle rustling, became the beginnings of what is now known as the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.

In 1965, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark Number 5927 was placed at the county courthouse, acknowledging the 1876 creation of the county.

The Texas legislature established Yoakum County from Bexar County in 1876.

Officially formed in 1876, the county is named for Royal Tyler Wheeler, a chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court.

In 1876, the Texas State Legislature established Wheeler County.

Terry County was formed from Bexar County in 1876 and named for Col. Benjamin Franklin Terry, who commanded the Terry's Texas Rangers in the Civil War.

In 1876 the Texas state legislature carved Swisher County from Young and Bexar districts.

An 1876 area rancher meeting regarding cattle rustling became the beginnings of what is now known as the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association

Oldham County was formed in 1876 and organized in 1880, and named for Williamson Simpson Oldham, a Texas pioneer and Confederate Senator.

On August 21, 1876, the Texas legislature formed King County from Bexar County.

* 1876 The Texas legislature forms Kent County from Young and Bexar districts.

* History of Hutchinson County, Texas: 104 years, 1876 – 1980, hosted by the Portal to Texas History

The Texas legislature formed Hansford County in 1876 from Young and Bexar counties.

Also important on the Brown & Sharpe scene, at the turn of the century, was Mr. Richmond Viall, Works Superintendent of the company from 1876 to 1910.

Upon his return to Sweden in 1876, he founded a small mechanical workshop together with his friend Carl Johan Andersson who had also worked at Öllers & Co ..

Lyon & Healy evidently began manufacturing these instruments around 1876 in its factories in Chicago and nearby cities.

In the 1920s John Fothergill ( 1876 – 1957 ) was the innkeeper of the Spread Eagle in Thame, Berkshire, and published his autobiography: An Innkeeper's Diary ( London: Chatto & Windus, 1931 ).

Famous illustrators for British editions include: Arthur Boyd Houghton, John Tenniel, John Everett Millais and George John Pinwell for Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments, published in 1865 ; Walter Crane for Aladdin's Picture Book ( 1876 ); Albert Letchford for the 1897 edition of Burton ’ s translation ; Edmund Dulac for Stories from the Arabian Nights ( 1907 ), Princess Badoura ( 1913 ) and Sindbad the Sailor & Other Tales from the Arabian Nights ( 1914 ).

Its first line began operating in December 1876, and traveled from the courthouse down Main Street to the T & P Depot.

* 1876 – F. Hurter & V. C. Driffield begin systematic evaluation of sensitivity characteristics of photographic emulsions – science of sensitometry.

* Joseph ( born 1836 ; second child of Theobald & Christina ; married between 1875 & 1876 ).

* Charlotte ( born 1837 ; third child of Theobald & Christina ; married between 1876 & 1882 ).

F. & J. Heinz launched their tomato ketchup in 1876.

The B & ER converted to mixed gauge the line from Bristol as far as Taunton by 1 June 1875, but the remainder of the line to Exeter was not done until 1 March 1876, three months after the B & ER had amalgamated with the GWR.

Hence when the GWR absorbed the B & ER in 1876 the split was GWR 5 / 8 and MR ( later LMS ) 3 / 8 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948.

( Chicago, Burlington and Kansas City Railway ) built a line running north to south through the county in 1876, which was followed by construction of the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railway line east to west though the county from 1878 to 1881.

In 1876 the mail contracts expired and the Post Office ended both B & NARMSPC's and Inman's subsidies.

The Great Northern Railway ( Ireland ) absorbed the PD & O in 1876 and the L & ER in 1883.

* Priory Church, Leominster ( 1864 – 66 ) & ( 1876 – 78 )

* George Clement Martin 1874 – 1876 MVO ( subsequently Sub-Organist & then Organist )

In February 1876, the land was sold to Mr. & Mrs. Ephraim Waggoner.

From 1876 to 1880, it was the seat of lumber operations for Alger, Smith & Company, then the largest pine timber producers in the world.

At the end of 1876, after operating for only five years, the DL & LM went into receivership and was reorganized as the Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad.