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| 1876 |
| | | The US inventor Thomas Edison opens an experimental laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, calling it his 'invention factory' | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Scottish missionaries establish Blantyre (named after Livingstone's birthplace) as a centre from which to fight slavery | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates his new invention, the telephone, at the US Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Susan B. Anthony presents a Woman's Declaration of Rights at the US centennial Fourth of July celebrations | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in which Tom and his friends find excitement in a small town on the Mississippi | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky begins an intense correspondence with a wealthy patron, Nadezhda von Meck | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Richard Wagner's sequence of four operas, The Ring of the Nibelungen, has its first complete performance at Bayreuth | |
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| 1876 |
| | | George Eliot publishes Daniel Deronda, contrasting Jewish idealism with upper-class English materialism | |
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| 1876 |
| | | English cricketer W.G. Grace scores a record 344 runs, playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Kent at Canterbury | |
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| 1876 |
| | | After a failed bank hold-up in Northfield, Minnesota, the whole of the James gang is killed except Jesse and his brother Frank | |
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