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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       
1876
 
    
Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky begins an intense correspondence with a wealthy patron, Nadezhda von Meck       
1876
 
     
Richard Wagner's sequence of four operas, The Ring of the Nibelungen, has its first complete performance at Bayreuth        
1876
 
    
George Eliot publishes Daniel Deronda, contrasting Jewish idealism with upper-class English materialism       
1876
 
    
English cricketer W.G. Grace scores a record 344 runs, playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Kent at Canterbury       
1876
 
   
After a failed bank hold-up in Northfield, Minnesota, the whole of the James gang is killed except Jesse and his brother Frank      
1876
 
    
Lewis Carroll publishes The Hunting of the Snark, a poem about a voyage in search of an elusive mythical creature       
1876
 
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Leopold II hosts a conference in Brussels on the subject of opening up the African continent      
1876
 
   
Johannes Brahms' first symphony has its premiere in Karlsruhe      
1876
 
    
Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes defeats Democrat Samuel J. Tilden in a US presidential election of which the result is strongly disputed