After his electoral defeat in 1874, Gladstone resigned as leader of the Liberal Party, but from 1876 began a comeback based on opposition to Turkey's Bulgarian atrocities.

Governor Adelbert Ames resigned in 1876, making Stone, the President Pro Tempore of the Mississippi Senate at that time, the acting governor.

He was the Member of Parliament for Wanganui and Rangitikei in the second parliament ( 1855 – 60 ), Rangitikei in the third, fourth and fifth parliaments ( 1861 – 65, when he resigned ; 1868 – 70 ; 1871 – 75, when he resigned ), Wanganui in the sixth parliament ( 1876 – 79, when he was defeated ), and Rangitikei again ( 1880 – 81, when he was defeated ).

There, catching the portal before it closes at midnight, Kate vanishes into 1876, where Leopold appears resigned to be pragmatic, as Kate and his uncle had advised him, and marry Miss Tree for her family fortune ; but, just as he is about to announce his intention to become engaged to Miss Tree, as he opens his mouth to speak, he sees Kate and announces her name, Kate McKay, as his bride-to-be.

In January 1876, however, he resigned.

Bristow resigned due to friction between himself and President Grant over Bristow's zealous reforming in the Treasury Department and potential Presidential run in 1876.

In June 1876, due to friction over Bristow's zealous prosecution of the Whiskey Ring and rumor that Bristow was interested in running for the U. S. Presidency, Bristow resigned from President Grant's Cabinet.

Largely owing to friction between himself and the president, Bristow resigned his portfolio in June 1876 ; as Secretary of the Treasury he advocated the resumption of specie payments and at least a partial retirement of " greenbacks "; and he was also an advocate of civil service reform.

Because of the scandals that plagued the Grant administration, Creswell resigned, but accepted the appointment of a United States counsel before the Alabama Claims Commission which he served as from 1874 to 1876.

In 1876, he was elected governor of Illinois and served in that office from 1877 – 1883, when he resigned to take office as a US senator.

The governor resigned his office in December 1876, following his election to the United States Senate.

Cudworth also provided several sound locomotive types for the railway, but resigned in 1876 after Sir Edward Watkin ordered 20 express locomotives against Cudworth's wishes, which subsequently proved to have been unsuccessful.

Cochrane resigned in 1872, but Piquenard continued until his death in 1876.

He was a Democratic candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1874, but was unsuccessful and resigned from the court in 1876, retiring from public life.

Hubbard was subsequently elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1873 and 1876 and succeeded to the governorship on December 1, 1876 when Richard Coke resigned to become a United States Senator.

Though Gowen remained as president, and Smith resigned from the board, the incident forced Gowen's 1876 annual report to approximate frankness.

In 1876, facing an inquiry by the Vatican into his increasing involvement in secular politics, Bourget resigned as Bishop of Montreal and retired to Sault-au-Récollet, where he continued to take an active role in church life until his death in 1885.

In 1876 the Vatican ordered the establishment of a branch of the Université Laval at Montreal, answering only to Quebec ( not Bourget ), but Bourget resigned as Bishop shortly thereafter and therefore was never required to enact the order.

To forestall the inquiry, on April 28, 1876 Bourget resigned as Bishop of Montreal and on May 15 that resignation was accepted by the Pope, to take effect in September.

In 1876, the Lord Advocate, Edward Gordon, was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ( Lord Gordon of Drumearn ) and resigned as Lord Advocate and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities.

On Macleod's suggestion, Fort Brisebois was renamed to Fort Calgary ( now Calgary, Alberta ) in June 1876, and Brisebois resigned in August.

Indeed, after he had been overruled too often, Sir John resigned in 1876 as Chief Medical Officer to the Privy Council — and the post was promptly abolished.

On the introduction of Bismarck's plan for the acquisition of the railways by the state, Delbrück resigned office, nominally on the ground of ill-health ( June 1, 1876 ).

After the last foreign troops had gone in 1876 and an international commission headed by Rutherford B. Hayes awarded Paraguay the area between the Río Verde and Río Pilcomayo, the era of party politics in Paraguay was free to begin in earnest.

In the 1876 – 1877 electoral college crisis, he helped to arrive at the solution of creating the Electoral Commission to settle the controversy, and ultimately served as one of the members of the commission, as one of the five Senators ( one of the two Senate Democrats, and one of the seven Democrats altogether ).

A commission was sent by the Portuguese government in 1876 to drain the marshy land near the settlement, to plant the blue gum tree, and to build a hospital and a church.

*, a three-masted steam screw frigate in commission from 1858 – 1876

In 1876, the director of the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques gave Planquette a commission to compose his first operetta, Les cloches de Corneville.

*, was a screw sloop in commission from 1870 to 1876

He became an agent of the Northern Pacific Railroad, continued his party activities, became a member of the commission researching the likelihood of the purchase of the Dominican Republic in 1871 and served as an elector for Rutherford Hayes in the election of 1876.

Jose Manuel Salvador Vallejo ( 1813 – 1876 ), the General's younger brother, received his commission in the Mexican army in 1835, and was appointed Captain of militia at Sonoma in 1836.

He was educated at Harrow, and on 26 February 1876 entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, passing out with a commission as a subaltern to the 95th ( Derbyshire ) Regiment of Foot.

He was appointed to the ' South Carolina Committee ,' a Congressional commission assigned to conduct hearings into voter intimidation and fraud during the 1876 elections in South Carolina — the elections which brought an end to Reconstruction and restored white supremacists to power.

After being educated at Eton College he received a commission in the 2nd Life Guards in 1876, and served for six years until the year after his marriage.

The borough was left unreformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 ; a royal commission reported in 1876 that the corporation had long been extinct ; and it was formally abolished in 1886.

When in London in 1876 Shepstone was entrusted by the 4th earl of Carnarvon, then secretary of state for the colonies, with a special commission to confer with the Transvaal executive on the question of the federation of the South African states, and given power, should he deem it necessary, to annex the country, subject to the confirmation of the British government.

This commission included a number of famous people such as Dr. Henry Bence Jones ( 1813 – 1873 ) and Dr. Edmond Alexander Parkes ( 1819 – 1876 ).

In 1876, he won a commission for a bronze David Farragut Memorial.

In 1876, Saint-Gaudens received his first major commission: a monument to Civil War Admiral David Farragut, in New York's Madison Square ; his friend Stanford White designed an architectural setting for it, and when it was unveiled in 1881, its naturalism, its lack of bombast and its siting combined to make it a tremendous success, and Saint-Gaudens ' reputation was established.

After the 1876 presidential election between Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden, Miller served on the electoral commission that awarded the disputed electoral votes to the Republican Hayes.

His next major commission came soon after, in 1876, when he was appointed as architect for Glasgow Central Station.

In 1874 he received a government commission to undertake explorations in Syria, particularly at Tyre, and as a result be published in 1876 Aus Phönicien, a collection of historical and geographical sketches.

In the 1876 election, accusations of corruption stemmed from officials involved in counting the necessary and hotly contested electoral votes of both sides, in which Rutherford B. Hayes was elected by a congressional commission.

Brassington's partnership with John Kennington won the duo the prestigious commission of building the castle-like Lyttelton Timeball Station, built of volcanic red stone, and which was completed in 1876.

After receiving his rear admiral's commission on 5 June 1874, he commanded the North Atlantic Squadron until February 1876, protecting American interests on the Isthmus of Panama.

Stoughton contributed an account of Nonconformist modes of celebrating the Lord's Supper to the ritual commission of 1870, arranged a conference on co-operation between Anglicans and dissenters ( presided over by Archbishop Tait ) in 1876, was one of Dean Stanley's lecturers in Westminster Abbey and a pall-bearer at his funeral.

Attempts to establish a railroad commission in Texas began in 1876.