WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO AUGUST 1876
Find out what all happened May to August 1876

American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory. (17. June 1876)

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

Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V. (30. May 1876)

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

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

Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina (2. June 1876)

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

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

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