In 1876 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ; from 1878 to 1891 he was president of the Royal Historical Society ; and in 1881 he became president of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Girls ' Day School Trust.

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

Percival graduated from the Noble and Greenough School in 1872 and Harvard University in 1876 with distinction in mathematics.

There is one high school located within the city boundaries, Victoria High School, founded in 1876, making it the oldest High School in North America north of Portland, Oregon and west of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

In 1876, Washington returned to live in Malden, West Virginia, teaching Sunday School at African Zion Baptist Church ; he married his first wife, Fannie Smith, at the church in 1881.

In 1876, when Iowa no longer needed an orphan home, legislators Edward G. Miller and H. C. Hemenway started the Iowa State Normal School.

* Iowa State Normal School, 1876 – 1909

In 1876, a predecessor of the Royal College of Music, the National Training School for Music, was founded by the RSA, and the Society was instrumental in the preservation of West Wycombe, purchasing the entire village and handing it over to the National Trust.

The Grill Room 1876 – 81 was designed by Sir Edward Poynter, the lower part of the walls consist of blue and white tiles with various figures and foliage enclosed by wood panelling, above there are large tiled scenes with figures depicting the four seasons and the twelve months these were painted by ladies from the Art School then based in the museum, the windows are also stained glass, there is an elaborate cast iron grill still in place.

* Everett Shinn ( 1876 – 1953 ), painter from the Ashcan School.

* Grove Street Elementary School ( 1876 )

He founded the Société d ' Anthropologie de Paris in 1859, the Revue d ' Anthropologie in 1872, and the School of Anthropology in Paris in 1876.

Karl Pearson was educated privately at University College School, after which he went to King's College, Cambridge in 1876 to study mathematics, graduating in 1879 as Third Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos.

Sumner School was founded in 1876 and is these days a full primary school, teaching children from years 1 to 8.

He attended Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, entered Yale College in 1876, and graduated in 1880.

Nicholson Trent Ironworks ( 1840s ), Northgate Railway Station ( 1851 ), North End Wesleyan Chapel ( 1868 ), St. Leonard's Anglican Church ( 1873 ), Baptist Chapel ( 1876 ), Primitive Methodist Chapel ( 1878 ), Newark Hospital ( 1881 ), Ossington Coffee Palace ( 1882 ), Gilstrap Free Library ( 1883 ), Market Hall ( 1884 ), Unitarian Chapel ( 1884 ), The Fire Station ( 1889 ), Waterworks ( 1898 ) and the School of Science and Art ( 1900 ).

On 10 October 1876, he wrote to The Meteor, the Rugby School magazine, that he had learnt from an unnamed source that the change from a kicking game to a handling game had "... originated with a town boy or foundationer of the name of Ellis, Webb Ellis ".

By 1876 the ratio was so high that John Lyon Lower School was brought under the authority of the governors of the Upper School so that the school remained within its charge of providing education for the boys of the parish.

Cornish was founded in 1914, as the Cornish School, by pianist and voice teacher Nellie Cornish ( 1876 – 1956 ), who was influenced by the pedagogical ideas of Maria Montessori, as well as Calvin Brainerd Cady's ideas on music pedagogy, and who served as the school's director for its first 25 years.

Largely due to the efforts of Mulock and Loudon, in 1876 a School of Science was established and in 1878 an independent School of Practical Science ( which joined the university in 1889 as the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering ).

On 4 April 1876 the entire Uppingham School in Rutland, England, consisting of 300 boys, 30 masters and their families, moved to Borth for a period of 14 months, taking over the disused Cambrian Hotel and a large number of boarding houses, to avoid a typhoid epidemic.

File: A Girl with a Watering Can. JPG | A Girl with a Watering Can, 1876, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

The Lowell Art Association was founded in 1876, and the new Opera House was built in 1889.

He then became teacher of etching at the South Kensington School of Art, and in 1876 Slade Professor at University College, London.

File: Entrée d ' un gave ( Source of a Mountain Stream. jpg | Entrée d ' un gave ( Source of a Mountain Stream ), 1876, held at the Birmingham Museum of Art

File: Courbet Landscape NGFA. jpg | Landscape, 1876, National Gallery for Foreign Art

His other works include Studies in English Art ( 2 vols., 1876 – 1880 ), The Masters of Genre Painting ( 1880 ), English Water Colour ( 1902 ), Turner and Ruskin ( 2 vols., 1900 ).

From 1876 – 1880 he attended the Art Academy in The Hague where his extraordinary talent was rewarded on various occasions.

Image: 1876 Frederic Leighton-Daphnephoria. jpg | Daphnephoria, oil on canvas painting, 1874 – 1876, Lady Lever Art Gallery

* Ontario School of Art, 1876 – 86 founded by the Ontario Society of Artists to provide professional training in art.

Dobell's suggestive, but too ornate prose writings were collected and edited with an introductory note by John Nichol ( Thoughts on Art, Philosophy and Religion ) in 1875 or 1876.

Category: Art museums established in 1876

Dowden's first book, Shakespeare, his Mind and Art ( 1875 ), resulted from a revision of a course of lectures, and made him widely known as a critic: translations appeared in German and Russian ; his Poems ( 1876 ) went into a second edition.

At one time Bond Street was best known for top end art dealers and antique shops, clustered around the London office of Sotheby's auction house, which has been in Bond Street for over a hundred years, and of the Fine Art Society, present on the street since its foundation in 1876.

In 1876, the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art ( PMSIA ) was founded as both a museum and an art school.

He painted Le Pont de l ’ Europe ( The Bridge of Europe ) in 1876 ( now in the Petit Palais, Musée d ’ Art Moderne in Geneva, Switzerland ) and " On the Pont de l ' Europe " in 1876-80 ( Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth ).

* " The Art of Projecting ", Boston, 1876

In January 1876 one of these figural works, a portrait titled " Keying Up " – The Court Jester ( now in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ) was exhibited at the Boston Art Club ; later that year it was exhibited and won a medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, and this success gained Chase his first fame.

Others of his numerous plays are Les Compensations ( 1876 ); L ' Art de tramper les femmes ( 1890 ), with Émile de Najac.

From the 1850s Doulton & Co .' s decorative stoneware, that was produced in association with the nearby Lambeth School of Art, enjoyed significant success at various international exhibitions, including at The Great Exhibition in 1851, Philadelphia Exhibition in 1876, and also at Chicago in 1893.

* A Plea for Art in the House ( 1876 )