General
Population: 1.35 Billion*
- Archaeology: Schliemann excavates Mycenae
- Entertainment: Writers include Feliz Dahn, Henry James, Mallarme, CF Meyer, FH Bradley, Lombrosso, Mark Twain Tom Sawyer
Art includes Renoir (Le Moulin de la Galette),
Music includes Brahms, Le Delibes, Ponnchielli, Wagner (Siegfried), Bayreuth Festpielhaus opens with performance of Wagner's works –
first "Ring" operas - "Ring of the Nibelung"
- Science: Koch discovers anthrax bacilius and validates germ theory of disease started by Pasteur
- Technology: Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
Otto invents four-stroke combustion engine
- Deaths: Author George Sand, Anarchist Mikhail Bakunin,
Nickel ore found in New Caledonia,
Africa
- General: Drought at horn for two years
- Egypt: France and Britain share control due to Egyptian bankruptcy
- Ethiopia: Defeat of Egyptian forces at Gura
- Congo: Leopold II of Belgium founds Association of the Congo
Americas
- Bolivia: Hilarion Daza named President
- Mexico: Reign of President Diaz for 35 years
Asia
- Bangladesh: Cyclone kills 200,000
- China: Drought and famine in north and central kills 5-10 million
Railroad opens
- India: Queen Victoria declares self Empress
Famine in the Deccan for two years leaves 5 million dead - 10 by 1879
Drought and cholera
Deadly cyclone overflows Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers and 200,000 die between drowning and illness - 40 foot wave
- Japan: Samurai forbidden to wear swords
- Korea: Japan pressures opening of trade ports
Independence
- Malaysia: Rubber seedlings planted
Europe
- Bulgaria: Uprising against Turks - violent massacre of thousands of Bulgarians
- Germany: Deutsche Reichsbank opens
- Great Britain: Disraeli made Earl of Beaconsfield
- Serbia and Montenegro: War declared on Turkey but defeated
(TUR?) Sultan Abdul Aziz deposed – successor Murad V deposed and succeeded by Abdul Hamid II,
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: New constitution proclaimed
Sultan Abdul Hamid II becomes oppressive ruler
Uprisings quashed
Pacific
President:
Pres: Ulysses S. Grant
Pres: Rutherford B. Hayes elected in suspect election over Samuel J. Tilden. See Politics
General
- Americana: Centennial
- Business: Start of Industrial Revolution in US
- Crime: Gang tries to steal Abraham Lincoln's body for ransom – foiled
- Culture: Edward Alexander Boucher becomes first black Doctorate (Yale)
- Entertianment: Kit Cody – son of Buffalo Bill dies of scarlet fever – Cody leaves wife (again) after to join 5th cavalry where he learns of Custer's death – in battle he kills an Indian and scalps him – reenacts this for years
- Law: "Granger Cases" go to court
- Natives: Sioux under Sitting Bull rebel, Custer's last stand
- Politics: US Presidential election – Tilden receives more electoral votes than Hayes, but 20 disputed votes result in special electoral commission
Greenback Party strengthens
- Sports: Baseball's National League organized
First tennis tournament in US
- Technology: Telephone patented by Bell
Little Big Horn - Custer's last stand, Sioux defeat Custer at Little Bighorn,
Battle of Little Big Horn – last native victory, ,
Sioux and allies defeat General Custer at Little Big Horn,
East
- New York: Reformatory for juvenile offenders founded at Elmira
Brooklyn Theater fire kills 295
- Pennsylvania: World Exhibition at Philadelphia beginning of eclecticism and skyscrapers
Midwest
- Ohio: Train bridge collapses killing 92 passengers
South
- South Dakota: Smallpox outbreak in South Dakota
Black Hills War until 1877
West and Pacific
- Colorado: Statehood as #38
- Wyoming Territory: Education becomes mandatory
1876 
