The chief act of his episcopal career was his consecration in 1876 of Dr Eduard Herzog to preside as bishop over the Old Catholic Church in Switzerland.

* Edward Feild, Church of England clergyman, inspector of schools, bishop of Newfoundland ( d. 1876 )

In 1876, the same bishop obtained the services of the Christian Brothers who opened their Dunedin school in that year.

* Kenneth Mackenzie ( bishop of Brechin ) ( 1876 – 1966 ), Episcopal bishop in Scotland

Jean-Rémy Bessieux ( 24 December 1803 – 30 April 1876 ), also seen as Jean-Rémi or Jean René, was the founder of the Roman Catholic mission in Gabon and the first bishop to serve there.

It was named after Ignace Bourget, who was bishop of Montréal from 1841 to 1876.

* George David Cummins ( 1822 – 1876 ), American bishop and founder of the Reformed Episcopal Church

* Henry Wilson ( bishop ) ( 1876 – 1961 ), bishop of Chelmsford and author

Kelly became diocesan bishop in 1876, after Feild's death.

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.

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

* 1876 – The April Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire.

In 1876, the Spanish governor-general of the Philippines José Malcampo coined the term juramentado for the behavior ( from juramentar-" to take an oath "), surviving into modern Filipino languages as huramentado.

* Bourbon Democrat, from 1876 to 1904 a conservative member of the US Democratic Party

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.

Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.

* Harper's Weekly 150 cartoons on elections 1860-1912 ; Reconstruction topics ; Chinese exclusion ; plus American Political Prints from the Library of Congress, 1766 – 1876

The original vertical-lift span of the Dumbarton Bridge, shown in 1984 shortly before it was demolishedThe bridge has never been officially named, but its commonly used name comes from Dumbarton Point, named in 1876 after Dumbarton, Scotland.

In 1876, Section 101 from the 1835 Edition ( and subsequent printings ) was removed.

* Full text of A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library ( Dewey Decimal Classification ) ( 1876 ) from Project Gutenberg

Statistics for 1876 show 3, 748, but 500 of these had been expelled from their convents and were engaged in parochial work.

At the University of Leipzig from 1876 to 1878, Husserl studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy.

He returned to Paris in the 1860s to work on the influential newspaper, Le Journal des Débats, which he edited from 1871 to 1876.

The constitution of 1876 adopted for the first time the name " España " (" Spain ") for the Spanish nation, and from then on monarchs used the title of " King of Spain ".

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.

Early boxscore from 1876.

In another instance of devotion to detail, he laboured over the official First Symphony for almost fifteen years, from about 1861 to 1876.

In 1876, a writer named George Hanson placed John Hanson in his family tree of Swedish Americans descended from four Swedish brothers who emigrated to New Sweden in 1642.

Hieronim Derdowski ( 1852-1902 in Winona, Minnesota ) was another significant author who wrote in Kashubian, as was Doctor Aleksander Majkowski ( 1876 – 1938 ) from Kościerzyna, who wrote the Kashubian national epic The Life and Adventures of Remus.

As Bakunin's associate, James Guillaume, put it in his essay, Ideas on Social Organization ( 1876 ), " When ... production comes to outstrip consumption ... veryone will draw what he needs from the abundant social reserve of commodities, without fear of depletion ; and the moral sentiment which will be more highly developed among free and equal workers will prevent, or greatly reduce, abuse and waste.

He was also the co-editor of The Christian Union with Henry Ward Beecher from 1876 to 1881.

Weber's 1876 Christmas presents to his parents, when he was thirteen years old, were two historical essays entitled " About the course of German history, with special reference to the positions of the Emperor and the Pope ," and " About the Roman Imperial period from Constantine to the migration of nations.

The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

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

Education in Canada West was regulated by the province through the General Board of Education, in 1846, until 1850, when it was replaced by the Department of Public Instruction, until 1876.

Maria Spelterini walking a tightrope across Niagara Gorge, from the United States to Canada, with her feet in peach baskets, 1876.

* William Henry Farrow ( 1805 ?– 1876 ), physician born and trained in England and practiced in Canada

From 1876 to 1976 it has been calculated that over a million people from the province of Vicenza have emigrated, with more than 3 million people of vicentino descent living around the world ( most common migrational currents included Brasil, America, Canada, Australia Germany, France, Belgium and Switzerland ) escaping the devastation left by poverty, war and sickness.

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 McLaughlin automobile company began life in 1876 as the McLaughlin Carriage Company, a blacksmith's shop in the village of Enniskillen, located north east of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

Initially they had hoped to take refuge with the Crow nation in the Montana Territory, but when the Crow refused to grant them aid, the Nez Perce went north in an attempt to reach asylum with Sioux Chief Sitting Bull and his followers who had fled to Canada in 1876.

* Toronto Telegram, a newspaper published from 1876 to 1971 in Ontario, Canada

* Meteorological Service of Canada – founded 1876

* Address of His Excellency the Governor-General of Canada on the subject of the relations between the Dominion government and British Columbia, in respect to the Canadian Pacific Railway: delivered at Government House, Victoria, Sept. 20th, 1876, to a deputation of the reception committee, publ.

Thomas Alexander Crerar, ( June 17, 1876 – April 11, 1975 ) was a western Canadian politician and a leader of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada.

Events from the year 1876 in Canada.

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Although early in the war on June 25, 1876 the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne enjoyed a major victory over army forces under General George A. Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the Great Sioux War ended in the defeat of the Sioux and their Cheyenne allies, and their exodus from eastern Montana and Wyoming, either in flight to Canada or by forced removal to distant reservations.

* Colonel Oliver Mowat Biggar ( 1876 – 1948 ), lawyer, soldier ( Judge Advocate General for Canada ) and Public Servant ( delegate, and chief legal adviser to the Paris Peace Conferences in 1919 ) and Canada's First Chief Electoral Officer

* John Albert Dowd ( 1876 – 1932 ), politician in Saskatchewan, Canada

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He became town solicitor for Brantford in 1867, a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1875, and a QC in 1876.

* 10 August 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the world's first long distance telephone call, about 6 miles between Brantford and Paris, Ontario, Canada.

The Indian Act was enacted in 1876 by the Parliament of Canada under the provisions of Section 91 ( 24 ) of the Constitution Act, 1867, which provides Canada's federal government exclusive authority to legislate in relation to " Indians and Lands Reserved for Indians ".

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A treasure-trove of information about early Canadian / Ontario " base ball " surfaced in 2002 when Library and Archives Canada purchased ( for $ 10, 000 from an Ottawa, Ontario, bookseller ) Bryce's Base Ball Guide 1876 and Bryce's Base Ball Guide 1877, two hand-coloured, 75-page booklets published by William Bryce of London, Ontario, which originally sold for a dime.

He then performed extensive surveys of Western Canada in the 19th century beginning with the International Boundary Survey from 1872 to 1876.