Charles Fort: A Fortean Chronology, 1876.

The year 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian Calendar.

January

February

• February 22: Johns Hopkins University is founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
• February 27: The Third Carlist War (Spain):The Carlist forces did not succeed, and the promises were never fulfilled. The Carlist pretender (Carlos María de Borbón y Austria-Este-"duque de Madrid" y "conde de la Alcarria") AKA:Carlos VII went into exile in France bringing the conflict to an end after four years of war.
• Spring: Vast numbers of Indians move north to an encampment of the Sioux chief Sitting Bull in the region of the Little Bighorn River, creating the last great gathering of native peoples on the Great Plains.

March

• March 3: At Olympian Springs, Bath County, Kentucky, flakes of a substance that looked like beef fell from the sky. (Books44)
• March 7: Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent #174,466).
• March 10: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.."
• March 12: Near Crystal Palace, London, red snow fell. (Books300) 

April

• April 9: An explosion that was said to have been violent over the town of Rosenau, Hungary. (Books450)
• April 16: The Bulgarian April uprising occurs.
• April 26: Near Wolverhampton fell a mass of meteoritic iron during a heavy fall of rain. (Books107) 

May

• May: The Settle-Carlisle Railway in England is opened to passenger traffic.
• May 1: Queen Victoria takes the title Empress of India.
• May 10: The Centennial Exposition begins in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• May 12: Berlin Memorandum: Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary propose an armistice between Turkey and its insurgents.
• May 16: British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli rejects the Berlin Memorandum.
• May 18: Wyatt Earp starts work in Dodge City, Kansas, serving under Marshal Larry Deger.

June

• June 4: The Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California via the First Transcontinental Railroad, 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
• June 17: 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.
• June 25: Indian Wars , Battle of the Little Bighorn: 300 men of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5,000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

July

• July 1: Serbia declares war on Turkey.
• July 2: Montenegro declares war on Turkey.
• July 4: The United States celebrates its centennial.
• July 13: The prosecution of Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman, for using ritualist practices begins.

August

• August 1: Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
• August 8: Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
• August 31: Murat V, sultan of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.

September

• September 5: Gladstone publishes his Bulgarian Horrors pamphlet.
• September 7: In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly wiped out.

October

• October 31: A catastrophic cyclone strikes the east coast of India, killing 200,000.

November 

• November 2: A giant squid, 6.1 meters long, washes ashore at Thimble Tickle Bay in Newfoundland.
• November 7: U.S. presidential election, 1876: After long and heated disputes, Rutherford Birchard Hayes is eventually declared the winner over Samuel Jones Tilden. A failed grave robbery of the Lincoln Tomb took place on the same night.
• November 10: The Centennial Exposition ends in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• November 23: Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
• November 25: Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (the soldiers destroy all of the villagers' winter food and clothing, and then slash their ponies' throats).
• November 29: Porfirio Díaz becomes President of Mexico.

December

• December 5: The Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278, possibly more than 300.
• December 6: The first cremation in the United States takes place in a crematory built by Francis Julius LeMoyne.
• December 29: The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 92 dead.