The first election under this new constitution – held in early 1876 – resulted in a republican victory, with 363 republicans elected as opposed to 180 monarchists.

* July 23 – Young Turk Revolution: The Committee of Union and Progress ( CUP ) issues a formal ultimatum to Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the constitution of 1876, within the Ottoman Empire.

Alfonso granted a new constitution on July 1876 that was more liberal than the one granted by his grandmother.

The expulsion in 1837 of the seven professors – Die Göttinger Sieben – the Germanist, Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht ( 1800 – 1876 ); the historian Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann ( 1785 – 1860 ); the orientalist Georg Heinrich August Ewald ( 1803 – 1875 ); the historian Georg Gottfried Gervinus ( 1805 – 1875 ); the physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber ( 1804 – 1891 ); and the philologists, the brothers Jakob ( 1785 – 1863 ) and Wilhelm Grimm ( 1786 – 1859 ), for protesting against the revocation by King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover of the liberal constitution of 1833, further reduced the prosperity of the university.

The present constitution of 1876 shortened terms back to two years, but a 1972 amendment increased it again to four years.

The constitution of 1876 was amended in 1881, and replaced by a new one in 1894.

The cantonal constitution was written in 1876 and revised in 1895.

CUP favored a re-installation of the short-lived constitution of 1876, written by progressive Midhat Pasha.

On March 14, 1876, the Colorado territorial legislature passed an amendment to the state constitution that provided money for the establishment of the University of Colorado in Boulder, the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, and Colorado Agricultural College in Fort Collins, now known as Colorado State University.

In May 1876, a further meeting was called, this time in the ballroom of the identically named Wynnstay Arms Hotel in Ruabon where the name was agreed as the " Football Association of Wales " and the constitution was drawn up.

In 1834 for the first time a constitution was adapted, undergoing reforms in 1876 and 1908.

The existing constitution of Inner Rhoden dates mainly from 1872, and that of Ausser Rhoden from 1876.

The reforms peaked in 1876 with the implementation of an Ottoman constitution checking the autocratic powers of the Sultan.

The Young Turk Revolution began on 3 July 1908 and quickly spread throughout the empire, resulting in the sultan's announcement of the restoration of the 1876 constitution and the reconvening of parliament.

Construction of the Italian Renaissance Revival style capitol was funded by an article of the state constitution, adopted February 15, 1876, which authorized the sale of public lands for the purpose.

The outlines of the constitution, as finally settled in 1876, are as follows.

His administration was marked by vigorous action to balance the budget and by a revised state constitution adopted in 1876.

The current document took effect on February 15, 1876, and is the seventh constitution in Texas history.

* Texas Constitutions Digitization Project: Electronic texts of the various Texas constitutions, including the original, unamended text of the 1876 constitution

It was adopted in 1874, shortly after the Brooks-Baxter War replacing the 1868 constitution that had allowed Arkansas to rejoin the Union after the conclusion of the American Civil War ; the new constitution and the Brooks-Baxter war marked the end of Reconstruction in Arkansas, two years before the disputed 1876 presidential election ended it completely.

Six of these states then adopted a constitution and declared themselves to be a sovereign nation, the Confederate States of America.

Angola changed from a one-party Marxist-Leninist system ruled by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ), in place since independence in 1975, to a multiparty democracy based on a new constitution adopted in 1992.

* 1919 – The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted.

A new constitution was adopted in 2007 ( the Virgin Islands Constitution Order, 2007 ) and came into force when the Legislative Council was dissolved for the 2007 general election.

In 1972, a constitution was adopted, a parliament elected, and Lon Nol became president.

Following the collapse of the ruling Communist Party in Yugoslavia, Croatia adopted a new constitution in 1990 – which replaced the 1974 constitution adopted by the Socialist Republic of Croatia – and organised its first multi-party elections.

In 1985, the TRNC adopted a constitution and held its first elections.

In 1985, they adopted a constitution and held elections — an arrangement recognized only by Turkey.

The PRC adopted its current constitution on 4 December 1982.

After Napoleon Bonaparte in November 1799 staged a coup against the Directory government, the French Republic adopted a constitution, which conferred executive powers upon three Consuls, elected for a period of ten years.

The constitution, adopted by referendum in 2005, and promulgated by President Joseph Kabila in February 2006, establishes a decentralized semi-presidential republic, with a separation of powers between the three branches of government-executive, legislative and judiciary, and a distribution of prerogatives between the central government and the provinces.

That constitution was adopted by referendum in December 2005, and decreed into law on 18 February 2006.

The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789, by the National Constituent Assembly ( Assemblée nationale constituante ), during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France.

This assembly adopted the constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in December 1994.

* 1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.

Meanwhile, on 24 June, the Convention adopted the first republican constitution of France, variously referred to as the French Constitution of 1793 or Constitution of the Year I.

On 24 April 1870, the dogmatic constitution on the Catholic faith Dei Filius was adopted unanimously.

Former President Omar Bongo OndimbaIn March 1991 a new constitution was adopted.

After approval by the National Assembly, the PDG Central Committee, and the president, the Assembly unanimously adopted the constitution in March 1991.

The constitution adopted in 1963 changed the governor's term to four years, starting in 1967.

It was only in the constitution of 1812 that the name " Españas " for the Spanish kingdom and the use of the title of " King of the Spains " were officially adopted.