WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1876
Find out what all happened June to December 1876

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

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

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

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

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

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

Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain. (23. November 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)

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)

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

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

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

Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. (25. June 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 Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio. (29. December 1876)

American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River. (25. November 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)

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

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