WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1876
Find out what all happened March to December 1876

Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone". (7. March 1876)

The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia. (22. April 1876)

Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state. (1. August 1876)

Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." (10. March 1876)

In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens. (7. September 1876)

Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. (25. June 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. (20. April 1876)

New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved. (1. November 1876)

Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II. (31. August 1876)

The American Library Association was founded. (6. October 1876)

White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina. (8. July 1876)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia. (17. November 1876)

Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas. (4. October 1876)

The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria. (2. May 1876)

The Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, New York. (5. December 1876)

An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City. (4. June 1876)

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized. (11. April 1876)

Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. (8. August 1876)

A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths. (31. October 1876)

First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans. (23. December 1876)