On-site work began in January 1876 and was complete by the end of October 1877: the bridge was ceremonially opened by King Luis I and Queen Maria Pia, after whom the bridge was named, on 4 November.

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

In January 1876, he rented a studio in Rome.

* January 21 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer ( b. 1876 )

* January 6 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president ( b. 1876 )

* January 11 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient ( b. 1876 )

* January 6 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary ( d. 1876 )

* January 6 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete ( b. 1876 )

* January 22 – Georg Lurich, Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and strongman ( b. 1876 )

* January 17 – Arthur V. Johnson, American actor and director ( b. 1876 )

* January 9 – Elmer Flick, American baseball player ( b. 1876 )

* January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act 1876, introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

* January 26 – Juan Pablo Duarte, founder of the Dominican Republic ( d. 1876 )

* January 25 – George Pickett, American Confederate general ( d. 1876 )

The university was founded on January 22, 1876 and named for its benefactor, the philanthropist Johns Hopkins.

John Griffith " Jack " London ( born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916 ) was an American author, journalist, and social activist.

January 12, 1876

* Wikaskokiseyin ( Wee-kas-kookee-sey-yin, better known as Chief Sweet Grass, Chief of the Plains Cree, his mother was a captured Absaroke, as he grew up he was also called Apistchi-okimas-' Little Chief ', signed the Treaty 6 on 9 September 1876 at Fort Pitt, along with bands of Woodland Cree, Chipewyan, some Saulteaux, only a quarter of the participating groups were Plains Cree, while his successor as chief Wah-wee-oo-kah-tah-mah-hote (' Strike him on the back ') signed the Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton on the 28th August 1876 together with the Willow Cree, died 11 January 1877 in a shootout accident on the Plains, probably at Saint-Paul-des-Cris, Alberta )

Around January 1876 Russell received a copy of Nelson Barbour's Herald of the Morning in the mail.

His sister Mathilde ( died 6 December 1953 ) was born on 28 January 1876 in Walzenhausen.

Deploring the rising death rate from contagious diseases in the poorest parts of the city, in January 1876, Chamberlain forcibly purchased Birmingham's waterworks for a combined sum of £ 1, 350, 000, creating Birmingham Corporation Water Department, having declared to a House of Commons Committee that ' We have not the slightest intention of making profit ... We shall get our profit indirectly in the comfort of the town and in the health of the inhabitants '.

Most of January 1876 was spent navigating around the southern tip of South America, surveying and touching at many of the bays and islands of the Patagonian archipelago, the Strait of Magellan, and Tierra del Fuego.

Challenger reached the Falkland Islands towards the end of January, calling at Port Stanley and then continuing northward, reaching Montevideo in Uruguay in mid-February 1876.

Hence when the GWR absorbed the B & ER in 1876 the split was GWR 5 / 8 and MR ( later LMS ) 3 / 8 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948.

Starting with the 7th Academy Awards, held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

On January 31, 1837, he became senior brigadier general in command of the Texas Army

About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.

On 7 January 1325, Afonso's father died and he became king, taking full revenge on his brother.

After Eschiva's death in October 1197 he married Isabella, the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem by his second marriage, and became King of Jerusalem in right of his wife and crowned at Acre in January 1198.

In January 1799 he became a Rear-Admiral.

On 1 January 2007, the municipality lost its short-lived ( 2003 until 2006 ) county privileges and became part of Region Hovedstaden ( i. e. the Copenhagen Capital Region ).

In January 2001, the Inprise name was abandoned and the company became " Borland " once more.

With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on January 1, 2007, Cyrillic became the third official alphabet of the EU.

Berthe Morisot ( January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895 ) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.

When Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield jumped together from a Houston skyscraper on 18 January 1981, they became the first to attain the exclusive BASE numbers ( BASE # 1 and # 2, respectively ), having already jumped from an antenna, spans, and earthen objects.

As Lancaster grew older, he became increasingly plagued by atherosclerosis, barely surviving a routine gall bladder operation in January 1980.

Finally, at the same time as Madison Avenue became one-way northbound and Fifth Avenue became one-way southbound, Broadway was made one-way southbound between Madison Square ( where Fifth Avenue crosses ) and Union Square on January 14, 1966, completing its conversion south of Columbus Circle.

A new constitution in January 1976 established Democratic Kampuchea as a Communist People's Republic, and a 250-member Assembly of the Representatives of the People of Kampuchea ( PRA ) was selected in March to choose the collective leadership of a State Presidium, the chairman of which became the head of state.

Prime minister Caambi El-Yachourtu became acting president until Djohar returned from exile in January, 1996.

A protocol signed by France and Ethiopia on 16 January 1954, stated that the demarcation of the boundary between the colony of Dibouti and Ethiopia as considered final, which became effective 28 February of that year.

On 17 January, Inayatullah abdicated and Habibullah Kalakani became the next ruler of Afghanistan and restored the emirate.

On January 21, 2000, during demonstrations in Quito by indigenous groups, the military and police refused to enforce public order, beginning what became known as the 2000 Ecuadorean coup d ' état.

Having this hard currency buffer to work with, the Salvadoran Government undertook a monetary integration plan beginning January 1, 2001, by which the U. S. dollar became legal tender alongside the colón, and all formal accounting was undertaken in U. S. dollars.

A protocol signed by France and Ethiopia on 16 January 1954, stated that the demarcation of the boundary between the colony of Dibouti and Ethiopia as considered final, which became effective 28 February of that year.

On January 29, 1845, his poem " The Raven " appeared in the Evening Mirror and became a popular sensation.

After his expulsion became official in January 1831, he attempted to start a private class in advanced algebra which attracted some interest, but this waned, as it seemed that his political activism had priority.

He was posted to the battleship HMS Centurion in the Reserve Fleet in 1926 and became Assistant Fleet Wireless and Signals Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes in January 1927.

Finland became a full member of the European Union ( EU ) in January 1995, at the same time acquiring observer status in the EU's defence arm, the Western European Union.