A leading proponent of the Great Game, Disraeli introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which created Queen Victoria Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Tsar.

Disraeli was elevated to the House of Lords in 1876 when Queen Victoria made him Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden.

Disraeli, who expanded the Empire to protect British interests abroad, cultivated the image of himself ( and the Conservative Party ) as " Imperialist ", making grand gestures such as conferring the title " Empress of India " on Queen Victoria in 1876.

A pamphlet he published in September 1876, Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East, attacked the Disraeli government for its indifference to the Ottoman Empire's violent repression of the Bulgarian April uprising.

* January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act 1876, introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Chamberlain eventually rejected the possibility of standing in Sheffield again, and when George Dixon to retired from his Birmingham seat in May 1876, Chamberlain was returned unopposed ( 17 June 1876 ) for the Birmingham constituency, after a period of anxiety following his nomination in which he denounced the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, accusing him of being ' a man who never told the truth except by accident.

It was created in 1876 for Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, a favourite of Queen Victoria.

Disraeli had also promoted the Royal Titles Act 1876 that had given Victoria the title of " Empress of India ".

When Disraeli became an earl in 1876 he automatically lost his seat in the Commons but remained Prime Minister, leading his government from the House of Lords.

He returned to government in 1874, serving once again as India Secretary in the government of Benjamin Disraeli, and Britain's Ambassador Plenipotentiary at the 1876 Constantinople Conference.

Malmesbury served as Foreign Secretary under the Earl of Derby in 1852 and again from 1858 to 1859 and was also Lord Privy Seal under Derby and Benjamin Disraeli between 1866 and 1868 and under Disraeli between 1874 and 1876.

He again held office under Disraeli as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1876 to 1880.

Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister ( 1868 and 1874 – 1880, and Earl of Beaconsfield 1876 ), whose father rented a house at nearby Bradenham, purchased the manor in 1848 with the help of a loan of £ 25, 000 ( equivalent to almost £ 1, 500, 000 today ) from Lord Henry Bentinck and Lord Titchfield, because as leader of the Conservative Party " it was essential to represent a county ," and county members had to be landowners.

In 1876 Disraeli was raised to the peerage as Earl of Beaconsfield and moved to the House of Lords.

An 1876 political cartoon of Benjamin Disraeli ( 1804 – 1881 ) making Queen Victoria Empress of India.

In 1876 Disraeli was made Earl of Beaconsfield.

He was briefly Solicitor-General under Benjamin Disraeli and then served as a justice of the Court of Common Pleas between 1868 and 1876, as a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1876 and 1883 and as Master of the Rolls.

This title had been assumed by her in 1876, under the encouragement of the Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

He accompanied Disraeli ( who in 1876 had been ennobled as Earl of Beaconsfield ) to the Congress of Berlin in 1878, where he acted as one of the secretaries of the special embassy of Great Britain.

* Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield 1876 – 1881 *

* Benjamin Disraeli 1852 – 1876 ( overall leader from 1868 )

That achievement was his creation of the universal grinding machine, which made its appearance in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.

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.

Nobel's third and longest-lasting relationship was with Sofie Hess who was from Vienna, whom he met in 1876.

' Gelignite ', or blasting gelatin, as it was named, was patented in 1876 ; and was followed by a host of similar combinations, modified by the addition of potassium nitrate and various other substances.

The " Mask of Agamemnon " which was discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae ( whether it represents an individual, and if so, whom, remains unknown )</ center >

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

August Wilhelm Ambros ( November 17, 1816 – June 28, 1876 ) was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent.

Astoria was incorporated by the Oregon Legislative Assembly on October 20, 1876.

In 1872, the firm was taken over by Friedrich Schreiber, and in 1876 it merged with the firm of August Cranz, who bought the company in 1879 and ran it under his name.

Abdülaziz ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد العزيز / ` Abdü ’ l -` Azīz ; February 9 / 18, 1830 – June 4, 1876 ) was the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and reigned between 25 June 1861 and 30 May 1876.

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.

From him it has descended continuously, through fifteen individuals, the title being increased to an Earldom in 1784 ; and in 1876 William Nevill 5th Earl ( b. 1826 ), ( d. 1915 ) an indefatigable and powerful supporter of the Tory Party, was created 1st Marquess of Abergavenny.

When a new Cincinnati club was formed as a charter member of the National League in 1876, the " Red Stockings " nickname was commonly reserved for them once again, and the Boston team was referred to as the " Red Caps ".

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.

In 1876 the " mile limit law " was passed, which prevented sale or public consumption of alcohol within one mile ( 1. 6 km ) of the new University of California.

The earliest known crokinole board was made by craftsman Eckhardt Wettlaufer in 1876 in Perth County, Ontario, Canada.

Spanish zouaves in the Third Carlist War ( 1872 – 1876 ) were created by the pretender to the Spanish throne, Don Alfonso Carlos, who raised the Carlist Zouaves as an honor guard to accompany himself and his wife Maria de las Nieves Braganza.

The money was raised, and Kelly bought the land for the depot in 1876.

The borough charter was received in 1876 and by 1889 this was raised to that of a county borough.

In 1876 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Gerard, of Bryn in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

After withdrawing from the Guinness company in 1876, when he sold his half-share to his brother Edward for £ 600, 000, he was in 1880 raised to the peerage as Baron Ardilaun, of Ashford in the County of Galway.

The fish raised in this hatchery were shipped to hatcheries out of state for the first time in 1875, to Caledonia, New York and then in 1876 to Northville, Michigan.

Mandana Fairbank died of tuberculosis in 1876 and the couple's son was raised by her sister and brother-in-law.

D ' Albert was raised in Glasgow and taught music by his father until he won a scholarship to the new National Training School for Music ( forerunner of the Royal College of Music ) in London, which he entered in 1876 at the age of 12.

" This was raised and " Halstead for Knockholt " ( the station being much closer to Halstead than Knockholt ) was opened in 1876.

The Monastery was completed in 1876 and the Abbey Church in 1925, being raised to the rank of a minor basilica in 1935 by Pius XI.

In 1871 he was one of the three judges who refused the seat on the judicial committee of the privy council to which Sir Robert Collier, in evasion of the spirit of the act creating the appointment, was appointed ; and in 1876 he was raised to the court of appeal, where he sat until the autumn of 1881.

The issue of improving navigation along the Kentucky River was raised numerous times by Representative James Blue during the 1876 legislative session.

Lawrence married Clara Barry Darrow on December 27, 1876, with whom he raised two daughters, Mrs. Majorie Graydon and Mrs. Jean Schmidlapp.

Putnam was born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of Ebenezer ( 1797 – 1876 ) and Elizabeth ( Appleton ) Putnam.