Editing 1876 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]]
** The [[Reichsbank]] opens in [[Berlin]].
** The [[Bass Brewery]] Red Triangle becomes the world's first [[registered trademark symbol]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tm/t-find/t-find-number?detailsrequested=C&trademark=1|title=United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office}}</ref>
*[[January 27]] – The [[Northampton Bank robbery]] occurs in Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Roth |first=Cheyna |date=2023-12-28 |title=My Favorite Victorian Criminal Was a Bank Robber With a Secret Weapon |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/12/george-leslie-bank-robber-heist-history.html |access-date=2024-01-06 |work=Slate |language=en-US |issn=1091-2339}}</ref>

* [[February 2]]
** The [[National League (baseball)|National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs]] is formed at a meeting in Chicago; it replaces the [[National Association of Professional Base Ball Players]]. [[Morgan Bulkeley]] of the [[Hartford Dark Blues]] is selected as the league's first president.
** [[Third Carlist War]] (Spain): Battle of Montejurra &ndash; The new commander General [[Fernando Primo de Rivera]] marches on the remaining Carlist stronghold at [[Estella-Lizarra|Estella]], where he meets a force of about 1,600 men under General Carlos Calderón, at nearby Montejurra. After a courageous and costly defence, Calderón is forced to withdraw.
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Alexander Graham Bell]] applies for a U.S. [[patent]] for the telephone, as does [[Elisha Gray]].
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Third Carlist War]]: Government troops under General Primo de Rivera drive through the weak Carlist forces protecting Estella and take the city by storm.
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Johns Hopkins University]] is founded in [[Baltimore]], Maryland.
* [[February 24]] &ndash; The first stage production of the verse-play ''[[Peer Gynt]]'' by [[Henrik Ibsen]] premieres, with incidental music by [[Edvard Grieg]], in   Christiania (modern-day [[Oslo]]), [[Norway]].
* [[February 26]] &ndash; The Japanese force the Korean government to sign the [[Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876]] (having brought a fleet to [[Incheon]], the port of modern-day [[Seoul]]), opening three ports to Japanese trade and forcing Korea's [[Joseon dynasty]] to cease considering itself a tributary of China. On China's urging, Korea also signs treaties with the European powers, in an effort to counterbalance Japan.
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Third Carlist War]]: The [[Carlism|Carlist]] forces do not succeed, and the promises are never fulfilled. The [[Carlist]] [[pretender]] [[Carlos, Duke of Madrid]], goes into exile in France, bringing the conflict to an end after four years.
* [[February]]&ndash;[[March]] &ndash; ''[[The Harvard Lampoon]]'' humor magazine is founded in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].
* Spring &ndash; Thousands of [[Plains Indians]] in the United States travel to an [[Great Sioux War of 1876#Combatants|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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-the-Battle-of-Little-Bighorn-Was-Won.html|title=How the Battle of Little Bighorn Was Won|work=Smithsonian Magazine|author=Powers, Thomas|access-date=January 6, 2018|archive-date=April 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408214831/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-the-Battle-of-Little-Bighorn-Was-Won.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March]] &ndash; American librarian [[Melvil Dewey]] first publishes the [[Dewey Decimal Classification]] system.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12513/12513-h/12513-h.htm|first=Melvil|last=Dewey|year=1876|oclc=78870163|access-date=2012-07-31}}</ref>
* [[March 2]] &ndash; United States Secretary of War [[William W. Belknap]] resigns his office in the wake of the [[trader post scandal]].
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Alexander Graham Bell]] is granted a United States [[patent]] for the [[telephone]].<ref>Patent #174,466.</ref>
* [[March 10]] &ndash; Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call, saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you".
* [[March 20]] &ndash; Through constitutional reform taking legal effect, [[Louis Gerhard De Geer|Louis De Geer]] becomes the first [[Prime Minister of Sweden]].