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.

In 1876 Disraeli was raised to the peerage as the Earl of Beaconsfield, capping nearly four decades in the House of Commons.

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

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.

As a House freshman, Reed was appointed to the Potter Commission, which was to investigate voting irregularities in the presidential election of 1876, where his skill at cross examination forced Democrat Samuel J. Tilden to personally appear to defend his reputation.

The first life peers were appointed to assist in exercising the judicial functions of the House of Lords under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.

Pascual Cervera appointed to set up a garrison and serve as military governor ; He served from March 1876 to December 1876 followed by Brig.

During construction, repeated disagreements with his appointed associate architect ( Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer ), led Semper to resign from the project in 1876.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1876 to the 45th Congress, but he was appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes to be an honorary commissioner to the Paris Exhibition of 1878.

In 1876 he was appointed extraordinary professor of classical philology at Kiel, and ordinary professor in 1881.

The last such fellow, Frederick de Winton, was appointed in 1876 and held his fellowship until his death in 1932.

In 1876 Dr Barrois was appointed a collaborateur to the French Geological Survey, and a professor of geology in the University of Lille in 1877.

Di Rudio was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on Devil's Island, from where he escaped and later went to America ; he became an officer in the United States Army, was appointed to the U. S. 7th Cavalry, and participated in — and survived — the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn.

After the war Canrobert was appointed a member of the superior council of war, and was also active in political life, being elected Senator for Lot in 1876 and for Charente in 1879 and again in 1885.

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.

In 1851, at the age of 26, Child succeeded Edward T. Channing as Harvard's Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position he held until Adams Sherman Hill was appointed to the professorship in 1876.

In 1876, he was appointed a receiver of the Kansas Pacific Railroad as the representative of European creditors.

These lectures, which dealt with such special subjects as Gnosticism and the Apocalypse, attracted considerable attention, and in 1876 he was appointed professor extraordinarius.

In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and in 1875 became a doctor of letters ; he was appointed maître de conférence ( 1876 ) at the École Normale Supérieure, succeeding Fustel de Coulanges, and then professor of modern history at the Sorbonne ( 1888 ), in the place of Henri Wallon.

Paris taught French grammar in a private school, later succeeding his father as professor of medieval French literature at the Collège de France in 1872 ; in 1876 he was admitted to the Academy of Inscriptions and in 1896 to the Académie française ; in 1895 he was appointed director of the Collège de France.

In quick succession he is designated as military and civilian chief of Guarico in 1871, second appointed of the Presidency of Venezuela in 1873, president of Guarico state in 1874, and, between 1876 until 1877, minister of war and navy.

He was appointed U. S. Pension Agent in 1869 for four years and served three terms as mayor of Springfield beginning in 1876.

Furthermore, Tulloch was appointed as one of Her Majesty's Chaplains for Scotland and preached a number of sermons before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland between 1866 and 1876.

Queen Victoria appointed the Duke of Cumberland a colonel in the British Army in 1876 and promoted him to major general in 1886, lieutenant general in 1892 and general in 1898.

In 1876 he received the Légion d ' honneur, and was appointed a Grand Officer in 1899.

An 1876 federal law provided that " Postmasters of the first, second, and third classes shall be appointed and may be removed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

These include the judges appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.

As the population of the North-West Territories increased, its government evolved from an appointed lieutenant governor in 1876, to responsible government in 1897, to near full provincial powers, with the exception of direct taxation by 1901.