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 ".

* 1876 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer ( d. 1946 )

* November 14 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer ( b. 1876 )

* October 22 – Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist and conductor ( b. 1876 )

Spanish zouaves in the Third Carlist War ( 1872 – 1876 ) were created by the pretender to the Spanish throne, Don Alfonso Carlos, who raised the Carlist Zouaves as an honor guard to accompany himself and his wife Maria de las Nieves Braganza.

An effective occupation of Jolo by the Spanish Empire did not take place until the year 1876.

In 1876, the Spanish launched a massive campaign to occupy Jolo.

Basque nationalism is rooted in Carlism and the loss, by the laws of 1839 and 1876, of the Ancien Régime relationship between the Spanish Basque provinces and the crown of Spain.

After the end of the Second Carlist War ( 1876 ), the Spanish government wished to curtail the regional autonomy.

When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed in 1931, political activity surged and so did the Basque claim to re-establish regional liberties that had been abolished in 1876.

By 1898, Basilan Island was administratively divided into three districts, the Spanish-controlled towns of Isabela and Lamitan, and the Tausug trading outpost in Maluso, which the Sulu Sultanate handed-over to Spain, subsequent to the razing and occupation of Jolo by the Spanish from 1876 up to 1899, formalized by the Treaty of 1878.

Several times during the period from 1833 to 1876 the Carlists — followers of Infante Carlos ( later Carlos V ) and his descendants — rallied to the cry of " God, Country, and King " and fought for the cause of Spanish tradition ( Legitimism and Catholicism ) against the liberalism, and later the republicanism, of the Spanish governments of the day.

Ildefons Cerdà i Sunyer () ( Centelles, December 23, 1815-Caldas de Besaya, August 21, 1876 ) was the progressive Catalan Spanish urban planner who designed the 19th-century " extension " of Barcelona called the Eixample.

* Julio González ( sculptor ) ( 1876 – 1942 ), a Spanish abstract, cubist painter and sculptor

After a series of unsuccessful attempts during the centuries of Spanish rule in the Philippines, Spanish forces occupied the city of Jolo, the seat of the Sultan of Sulu, in 1876.

The case against Burriel was taken up by the Spanish Tribunal of the Navy in June 1876.

When the civil war ended in 1876, more Spanish troops were sent to Cuba until they numbered more than 250, 000.

During this period, he was a principal author of the Spanish Constitution of 1876, a document which formalised the constitutional monarchy that had resulted from the restoration of Alfonso and limited suffrage in order to reduce the political influence of the working class, and assuage the voting support from the wealthy minority becoming the protected Status Quo.

* Legua nautica ( nautical league ): Between 1400 and 1600 the Spanish nautical league was equal to four Roman miles of 4 842 feet, making it 19 368 feet ( 5 903 meters or 3. 1876 modern nautical miles ).

After a series of less-than-successful attempts during the centuries of Spanish rule in the Philippines, Spanish forces captured the city of Jolo, the seat of the Sultan of Sulu, in 1876.

* Muhammad Ali Jinnah ( 1876 – 1948 ), Gujurati and founder and first governor-general of Pakistan

After occupying various subordinate posts at the Porte he became under-secretary of state for foreign affairs, governor-general of Syria and Smyrna, minister of commerce, and governor-general of Tripoli ; minister successively of justice and of marine ( 1869 ); grand vizier from 1871 to 1872 and from 1875 to 1876.

In 1876 he negotiated the treaty with the Khan of Kalat, which subsequently governed the relations between Kalat and the Indian government ; and in 1877 he was made agent to the governor-general in Baluchistan, an office which he held until his death.

* Philinda Rand ( 1876 – 1972 ), American English-language teacher in the Philippines

HSBC's history in the Philippines dates back more than 130 years with the establishment of their first branch in Binondo, Manila in 1876.

* Academic Scientific Psychology or Akademiko-siyentipikal na Sikolohiya: Western Tradition: This follows the tradition of Wilhelm Wundt in 1876 and is essentially the American-oriented Western psychology being studied in the Philippines.

On March 17, 1876, the Governor-General of the Philippines signed a decree that made Agad and all its sitios a new municipality.

* 1876 Garza County is formed from Bexar County, and named for the prominent Bexar County family of José Antonio de la Garza.

* José María Silva ( died 1876 ), Liberal Salvadoran politician

* Biography of José Antonio Navarro, written by an Old Texan, published 1876 and hosted by the Portal to Texas History

Manuel José Blanco y Calvo de Encalada ( April 21, 1790 – September 5, 1876 ) was a Vice-Admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President ( Provisional )( 1826 ).

Appointed by the future Viscount of Rio Branco José Maria da Silva Paranhos, Sr., he became the general deputy of Goiás from 1872 to 1875, a Major in 1875 and the governor of Santa Catarina from 1876 to 1877.

* José Gustavo Guerrero ( 1876 – 1958 ), Salvadoran jurist, first president of the International Court of Justice

In 1876 he left office due to pressure from José María Reina Barrios, the president of Guatemala.

Its successes included productions of Cherubini's Les deux journées ( 1875 ), The Flying Dutchman ( 1876 ), with Santley in the title role, the first English-language production of Carmen ( 1879 ), starring Selina Dolaro in the title role and Durward Lely as Don José, Rienzi ( 1879 ), Lohengrin ( 1880 ) and Tannhäuser ( 1882 ).

" Marsh recognized that this characteristic warranted a new genus, and he coined the name Pteranodon (" wing without tooth ") in 1876.

Gibbs coined the term " statistical mechanics " and introduced key concepts in the corresponding mathematical description of physical systems, including the notions of chemical potential ( 1876 ), statistical ensemble ( 1878 ), and phase space ( 1901 ).

The term was coined by Charles Grandison Finney who in his 1876 book Autobiography of Charles G. Finney referred to a " burnt district " to denote an area in central and western New York State during the Second Great Awakening.

The name ' Baked Alaska ' was coined at Delmonico's Restaurant by their chef-de-cuisine Charles Ranhofer in 1876 to honor the recently acquired American territory.

It was coined by Charles Renouvier as the title of his 1876 novel Uchronie ( L ' Utopie dans l ' histoire ), esquisse historique apocryphe du développement de la civilisation européenne tel qu ' il n ' a pas été, tel qu ' il aurait pu être ( Uchronia ( Utopia in History ), an Apocryphal Sketch of the Development of European Civilization Not as It Was But as It Might Have Been ), reprinted 1988, ISBN 2-213-02058-2.

Roberts coined the word " enzyme " in 1881, based on the Greek word " enzym ", which Wilhelm Kuehne used in 1876.