The predecessor of the school was founded in 1876.

University College, the predecessor of the University of Bristol, was founded in 1876 and the former Merchant Venturers Navigation School became the Merchant Venturers College in 1894.

Though Gowen was able to easily slough off such accusation at that time, it was renewed more powerfully in 1876 by Charles E. Smith — Gowen's direct predecessor as president, who had recommended the young man for the position in his absence.

After his return he became the first head of St Stephen's House, Oxford ( 1876 – 1878 ), and then, after presiding for two years over the Theological College at Salisbury, where he acted as his father's chaplain, he accepted the college living of Great Budworth in Cheshire in 1880, and the same year married Alice, the daughter of his father's predecessor, Walter Kerr Hamilton.

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.

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.

She was awarded a contract with the Royal Opera in London and made her début at Covent Garden as Marie in La Fille du régiment in 1876.

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.

After a short stay at the Leipzig Conservatory, in 1876 he went to study at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels after King Alonso's personal secretary, Guillermo Morphy obtained him a royal grant.

Not satisfied with the tubular magazine of the Jarmann rifle and his earlier Krag-Petersson rifle ( adopted by the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1876 ), he enlisted the help of master gunsmith Erik Jørgensen.

Another British Royal Navy attempt on the pole, part of the British Arctic Expedition, by Commander Albert H. Markham reached a then-record 83 ° 20 ' 26 " North in May 1876 before turning back.

* 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.

* United Kingdom: 22 June 1876, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Adelina Patti as Aida, Ernesto Nicolini as Radamès, and Francesco Graziani as Amonasro

The pundit ( explorer ) cartographer Nain Singh Rawat ( 19th century ) received a Royal Geographical Society gold medal in 1876.

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

* George Cooper ( son ) 1838 – 1876 ( also Organist HM Chapel Royal )

The Lauenburg Castle by the end of the 16th c. Saxe-Lauenburg was a duchy until 1 July 1876, when it was incorporated into the Royal Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein.

The Royal Military College of Canada, established in 1876, is Canada's only military university ( Collège Militaire Royal in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec is a military college ), providing academic and leadership training to officer cadets, other members of Canada's armed forces and civilians.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution's Torquay Lifeboat Station was at the Ladies Bathing Cove from 1876 until 1923.

Born Lord Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, he assumed in 1876 by Royal license the surname of " Talbot " as part of an unsuccessful attempt to succeed to the estates of the Earl of Shrewsbury.

He introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which added to Victoria's titles that of Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Emperor.

* President of the Royal Astronomical Society, ( 1851 – 1853 and 1874 – 1876 ).

It was built in 1905-11 on the site of the Royal Aquarium, Music Hall and Imperial Theatre, an entertainment complex that operated with varying success from 1876 to 1903.

In 1876, he was appointed to two Royal Commissions, the first into the " Laws and Regulations relating to Home, Colonial, and International Copyright " and the second " into various matters connected with the Universities of Scotland.

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

Entering the Indian education department in 1870, he became professor of English literature in Delhi College in 1873, tutor to the Raja of Rutlam in 1876, and principal of the Rajkumar College at Indore in 1877.

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

He matriculated at Harvard College in 1876.

* Keble College, Oxford 1876

In 1918 the town acquired its first institution of higher education, the Landbouwhogeschool Nederland ( Netherlands Agricultural College ), which was based on the previous agricultural college founded in 1876, and which later became Wageningen University.

Central Normal College was founded in Ladoga in 1876 ; it moved to Danville, Indiana in 1878.

Thayer College was founded in 1871 and closed in 1876.

One of the biggest changes came in 1876 when Oaklawn College was founded by Dr. W. N. Doyle.

It was founded as St. Mary's College in 1876 by the Benedictine monks of Belmont Abbey ( the name changed to Belmont Abbey College in 1913 ).

Huntingdon is home to Juniata College, originally founded by the Church of the Brethren in 1876.

* 1876: Texas A & M College opens nearby in what became College Station, Texas.

The first institute of higher learning in Fredericksburg was Fredericksburg College in 1876.

In 1876, Austin College, the oldest continuously operating college in Texas, relocated from Huntsville to Sherman.

Austin College a private, Presbyterian, liberal arts college relocated to Sherman in 1876.

He also started the philosophical journal, Mind ; the first number appeared in January 1876, under the editorship of a former pupil, George Croom Robertson, of University College London.

In 1876, she married Samuel W. Gross, chairman of surgery at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

A team from Nelson College took part in the first game of rugby played in New Zealand, against the Nelson Rugby Football Club on 14 May 1870 at what is now known as the Botanic Reserve, Nelson, and, in 1876, the first inter-College rugby match in New Zealand was played between Nelson College and Wellington College.

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.