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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1876 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1876
MDCCCLXXVI
Ab urbe condita2629
Armenian calendar1325
ԹՎ ՌՅԻԵ
Assyrian calendar6626
Baháʼí calendar32–33
Balinese saka calendar1797–1798
Bengali calendar1283
Berber calendar2826
British Regnal year39 Vict. 1 – 40 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2420
Burmese calendar1238
Byzantine calendar7384–7385
Chinese calendar乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
4573 or 4366
    — to —
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4574 or 4367
Coptic calendar1592–1593
Discordian calendar3042
Ethiopian calendar1868–1869
Hebrew calendar5636–5637
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1932–1933
 - Shaka Samvat1797–1798
 - Kali Yuga4976–4977
Holocene calendar11876
Igbo calendar876–877
Iranian calendar1254–1255
Islamic calendar1292–1293
Japanese calendarMeiji 9
(明治9年)
Javanese calendar1804–1805
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4209
Minguo calendar36 before ROC
民前36年
Nanakshahi calendar408
Thai solar calendar2418–2419
Tibetan calendar阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
2002 or 1621 or 849
    — to —
阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
2003 or 1622 or 850

1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1876th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 876th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1876, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

April–June

July – September

Punch cartoon from June 17. Russia preparing to let slip the "Dogs of War", its imminent engagement in the growing Balkan conflict between Slavic states and Turkey, while policeman John Bull (Britain) warns Russia to take care. The Slavic states of Serbia and Montenegro would declare war on Turkey two weeks later.

October–December

Date unknown

Births

January–March

Konrad Adenauer
Otto Diels
Pope Pius XII

April–June

July–September

Wilhelm Cuno
Mata Hari
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus

October–December

Date unknown

Deaths

January–June

General George Armstrong Custer

July–December

Wild Bill Hickok

References

  1. ^ "United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office".
  2. ^ Dewey, Melvil (1876). A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library. OCLC 78870163. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
  3. ^ van Dulken, Stephen (2001). Inventing the 19th Century. London: British Library. pp. 104–5. ISBN 0-7123-0881-4.
  • Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia ...for 1876 (1885) online edition, comprehensive world coverage