Editing 1876 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Lars Magnus Ericsson]] starts a small mechanical workshop in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]] (from April 27 partnering with Carl Johan Andersson), dealing with [[telegraphy]] equipment, which grows into the worldwide company [[Ericsson]].
* [[April 12]] &ndash; The ''[[Indian Act]]'' comes into force in Canada.
* [[April 16]] &ndash; The [[April Uprising]] in [[Bulgaria]] occurs.
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Friends Academy]] is founded by Gideon Frost at [[Locust Valley, New York]].
* [[May]] &ndash; [[April Uprising]] (Bulgaria): [[Batak massacre]] &ndash; Bulgarians in Batak are massacred by Ottoman troops. The number of victims ranges from 3,000 to 5,000, depending on the source.
* [[May 1]]
** The [[Royal Titles Act 1876]] in the UK Parliament confers the title '[[Empress of India]]' upon [[Queen Victoria]] from 1877.
** The [[Settle–Carlisle Railway]] in England is opened to passenger traffic (it opened to goods traffic in 1875).
* [[May 10]]
** The [[Centennial Exposition]] begins in [[Philadelphia]].
** Major [[pharmaceutical]] brand [[Eli Lilly and Company|Eli Lilly]] is founded in [[Indiana]], United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eli Lilly & Company |url=http://www.indianahistory.org/our-services/books-publications/hbr/eli-lilly.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729072945/http://www.indianahistory.org/our-services/books-publications/hbr/eli-lilly.pdf |archive-date=29 July 2016 |publisher=[[Indiana Historical Society]]}}</ref>
* [[May 11]]/[[May 12|12]] &ndash; [[Berlin Memorandum]]: Germany, Russia and [[Austria-Hungary]] propose an armistice between [[Turkey]] and its [[Insurgency|insurgent]]s.
* [[May 16]]
** British Prime Minister [[Benjamin Disraeli]] rejects the Berlin Memorandum.
** [[German American]] "Napoleon of crime" [[Adam Worth]] steals [[Thomas Gainsborough|Gainsborough]]'s ''[[Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire]]'' from a London gallery three weeks after its sale at [[Christie's]] for 10,000 guineas, the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction at this time.<ref>{{cite news|last=Macintyre|first=Ben|author-link=Ben Macintyre|title=The Disappearing Duchess|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/31/magazine/the-disappearing-duchess.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|access-date=2013-05-30|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=1994-07-31}}</ref> It is not recovered until 1901.
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Nicolaus Otto]] files his [[patent]] for the [[four-stroke cycle]] [[internal combustion engine]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Stephen|last=van Dulken|title=Inventing the 19th Century|location=London|publisher=[[British Library]]|year=2001|isbn=0-7123-0881-4|pages=104–5}}</ref>
* [[May 18]] &ndash; [[Wyatt Earp]] starts work in [[Dodge City, Kansas]], serving under [[Marshal]] Larry Deger.
* [[May 29]] &ndash; The United States Senate votes 37 to 29 that U.S. Secretary of War [[William W. Belknap]] cannot be barred from trial and [[Federal impeachment in the United States|impeachment]], despite being a private citizen; however, this is far short of the two-thirds majority required and thus he is acquitted.
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Abdülaziz]] is deposed by his nephew [[Murad V]] as [[Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]] on the grounds of mismanaging the economy; 6 days later, Abdülaziz is found dead at the [[Çırağan Palace]] in Istanbul and 93 days later Murad is deposed by [[Abdul Hamid II]] on the grounds of mental illness. For this reason, in [[Turkey]] 1876 is known as the 'Year of the Three Sultans'.
* [[May 30]] &ndash; The secret decree of [[Ems Ukaz]] is issued by Tsar [[Alexander II of Russia]] in the German city of [[Bad Ems]], aimed at stopping the printing and distribution of [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian-language]] publications in the [[Russian Empire]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Ukraine under direct imperial Russian rule |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/Ukraine-under-direct-imperial-Russian-rule#ref404490 |website=britannica.com |access-date=1 April 2024}}</ref>
* [[June 4]] &ndash; The [[Transcontinental Express]] arrives in [[San Francisco]] via the [[First transcontinental railroad]], 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left [[New York City]].
* [[June 6]] &ndash; The Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feebleminded Persons, later known as the [[American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities]], is founded when several directors led by [[Édouard Séguin]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mentalhelp.net/articles/the-american-association-on-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities-aaidd-diagnostic-criteria-for-intellectual-disability/|title=The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) Diagnostic Criteria for Intellectual Disability|date=March 23, 2019 |access-date=April 9, 2019}}</ref> inspired by Centennial events, meet to improve the lives of those with disabilities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aaidd.org/about-aaidd/mission|title=Mission|website=aaidd.org|access-date=April 9, 2019}}</ref>
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[American Indian Wars]]: [[Battle of the Rosebud]] &ndash; 1,500 [[Sioux]] and [[Cheyenne]], led by [[Crazy Horse]], beat back General [[George Crook]]'s forces at Rosebud Creek in [[Montana Territory]].
* [[June 19]] &ndash; Jászkunság, the last remnant of [[Kunság]] within [[Austria-Hungary]], is disestablished.
* [[June 25]]/[[June 26|26]] &ndash; [[American Indian Wars]]: [[Battle of the Little Bighorn]]: 300 men of the [[U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment]] under [[Lieutenant colonel|Lieutenant Colonel]] [[George Armstrong Custer]] are wiped out by 5,000 [[Lakota people|Lakota]], [[Cheyenne]] and [[Arapaho]], led by [[Sitting Bull]] and [[Crazy Horse]].