* 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.

Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (; 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967 ) was a German statesman.

* 1876 – The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.

Laboulaye arranged events designed to appeal to the rich and powerful, including a special performance at the Paris Opera on April 25, 1876, that featured a new cantata by composer Charles Gounod.

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.

* April 5 – Sir Nigel Gresley, English steam locomotive engineer ( Flying Scotsman and Mallard ) ( b. 1876 )

* April 25 – Walter Tewksbury, American athlete ( b. 1876 )

* April 8 – Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1876 )

* April 13 – Culbert Olson, Governor of California ( b. 1876 )

* May – Batak massacre refers to the massacre of Bulgarians in Batak by Ottoman troops in 1876 at the beginning of the April Uprising.

* April 19 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany ( b. 1876 )

* April 17 – Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist ( b. 1876 )

* April 2 – Empress Zawditu of Ethiopia ( b. 1876 )

* April 6 – Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, German scholar ( d. 1876 )

* April 26 – Charles Goodyear, American politician ( d. 1876 )

* France: 22 April 1876, Théâtre-Lyrique Italien, Salle Ventadour, Paris, with almost the same cast as the Milan premiere, but with Édouard de Reszke making his debut as the King.

The first game in the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs — on Saturday, April 22, 1876 ( at the Jefferson Street Grounds, Philadelphia ) — is often pointed to as the beginning of Major League Baseball.

* Booknotes interview with Roy Morris, Jr. on Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876, April 6, 2003.

By the 19th century, the Bulgarian National Revival became a key component of the struggle for independence, which would culminate in the failed April uprising in 1876, which prompted the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 and the subsequent Liberation of Bulgaria.

In April 1876, the Bulgarians revolted in the April Uprising.

Erich Johann Albert Raeder ( 24 April 1876 – 6 November 1960 ) was a naval leader in Germany before and during World War II.

* Küpeyakwüskonam ( Kupeyakwuskonam, Kah-pah-yak-as-to-cum-One Arrow, French: ‘ Une Flèche ’, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree, born 1815 in the Saskatchewan River Valley, son of George Sutherland (‘ Okayasiw ’) and his second wife Paskus (‘ Rising ’), tried to prevent in 1876 negotiations on the Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton along with Kamdyistowesit (' Beardy ') and Saswaypew (' Cut Nose '), but finally signed on August 28 the treaty, in August 1884 he attended a meeting with chief Mistahimaskwa (' Big Bear ') and Papewes (‘ Papaway ’-' Lucky Man '), his tribal group joined first the Métis in 1885, died on 25 April 1886 in the prison )

Juniata's first classes were held on April 17, 1876 with Zuck teaching Rebecca Cornelius, Maggie D. Miller, and Gaius M. Brumbaugh, the only son of Andrew Brumbaugh.

The towns and the villages in the Western Rhodopes took active part in the April Uprising in 1876.

In the Bulgarian insurgency of the April Uprising in 1876 an estimate of 1, 000 Muslims were killed.

After the Bulgarian April Uprising in 1876 and the decisive Russian victory in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 – 1878, Russia liberated almost all of the Ottoman European possessions.

The town is famous throughout Bulgaria for the fight that took place there in 1876 during the April Uprising against the Ottoman reign.

The April Uprising of 1876 against the Ottoman rule was widely supported within the region and the town of Panagyurishte became the center of the uprising.

The struggle reached its peak with the April Uprising which broke out in April, 1876 in several Bulgarian districts in Moesia, Thrace and Macedonia.

In 1876, news of a series of atrocities by the Ottomans during their suppression of the Bulgarian April Uprising reached the British press, despite the strong censorship of the Turkish authorities.

The April Uprising (, Aprilsko vastanie ) was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876, which indirectly resulted in the re-establishment of Bulgaria in 1878.

The population of Batak took part in the April Uprising of 1876.

The population of Bratsigovo took an active part in the April Uprising of 1876.

Dyustabanov joined the local revolutionary committee and actively assisted the preparation of the April Uprising of 1876.

Panagyurishte is primarily known for being the center of the April Uprising against the Ottoman rule in Bulgaria in 1876.

Like Koprivshtitsa, Panagyurishte has a picturesque location in the Sredna Gora mountains, and is one of the towns associated with the historic April Uprising in 1876.

Tutev's House where the 1876 April Uprising started.

Georgi Benkovski () ( 1843 – 12 May 1876 ) was the pseudonym of Gavril Gruev Hlatev ( Гаврил Груев Хлътев ), a Bulgarian revolutionary and leading figure in the organization and direction of the Bulgarian anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876 and apostle of its 4th Revolutionary District.

In 1876, Anna visited the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia and saw an exhibit of educational blocks created by Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel.

The first, that of 1824, saw John Quincy Adams elected by the House ; the second occurred just 12 years earlier in 1876 ; while the fourth would occur 112 years later in the year 2000.

The 1870-1891 period saw a surge of political turbulence in Ticino, and the authorities needed the assistance of the federal government to restore order in several instances, in 1870, 1876, 1889 and 1890-1891.

Tangaroa is said to have yellow hair and when Mangaians first saw Europeans they thought they must be Tangaroa's children ( Gill 1876: 13, Tregear 1891: 464 ).

The naginata saw its final uses in combat in 1868, at Aizu, and in 1876, in Satsuma.

The first bridge across the Moruya River was erected in 1876 though frequent flooding saw new bridges erected in 1900 and 1945 and, most recently, in 1966.

Probably the largest event held in the ballroom was a fancy dress ball that took place on the evening of 23 February 1876 and which saw approximately 1, 500 guests attending.

In 1876, the newly formed Football Association of Wales saw Wales play their first international match, against Scotland at The West of Scotland Cricket Club, Partick, featuring Edwin Cross and Alfred Davies as the first of many Wrexham F. C.

The United States celebrated its centennial as a nation in 1876, and Hartranft saw that Pennsylvania led the way in the celebration that was centered in Philadelphia's Fairmont Park.

Incorporation in 1876 saw a further division, with the creation of the Town Council and Mr. John Watson elected Mayor.

According to numismatic historian Walter Breen, " both obviously derive from Archibald Willard's 1876 painting Spirit of ' 76 ," a painting which numismatic author David L. Ganz suggests that both undoubtedly saw sometime in their lives.

The idea that it inspired the design of the American flag dates to the celebratory and patriotic climate of the year 1876, which saw the publication of “ Washington: A Drama in Five Acts ,” a drama in verse by the popular English poet Martin Farquhar Tupper.

Leopoldo Franchetti, an Italian deputy who travelled to Sicily and who wrote one of the first authoritative reports on the mafia in 1876, saw the Mafia as an " industry of violence " and described the designation of the term " mafia ":

Rear Admiral Silas Horton Stringham ( 7 November 1798 — 7 February 1876 ) was an officer of the United States Navy who saw active service during the War of 1812, the Second Barbary War, and the Mexican – American War, and who commanded the Atlantic Blockading Squadron at the beginning of the American Civil War.

The conversion of many broad gauge lines to standard gauge meant that this was a period of consolidation but in 1876 the amalgamation of the Bristol and Exeter and South Devon Railway locomotives saw 180 locomotives added to the GWR's fleet.

In 1876, Flemings represented the bondholders ' committee of the Erie Railway, then under the control of Jay Gould, and saw its plan for the financial reorganisation of the railroad largely adopted.

He also adapted the long-standing Seated Liberty design for use on the ill-fated 20-cent piece, which saw circulation only in 1875 and 1876, with proofs struck in 1877 and 1878.

1876 saw Lucas advance into the top league of batsmen, with 818 runs at an average of thirty being exceptional for the time and placing him among the top batsmen in the game.