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January 1 – The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world. January 8 – African-American men are granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia. February 7.
2017 – Five people are killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida. 2019 – Forty people are killed in a gold mine collapse in Badakhshan province, in northern Afghanistan.
The 1876 United States presidential election was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876. Incumbent Republican president Ulysses S. Grant declined to run for a third term, so the party chose Rutherford B. Hayes, the governor of Ohio, as its nominee.
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1. . La seine à Auteuil en février 1876. 15 février - 18 mars : inondation dans le bassin de la Seine. 2. . 20 février - 5 mars : succès républicain aux élections législatives avec 360 députés contre 170 aux conservateurs. 23 février - 9 mars et 9 mars - 2 décembre : troisième et quatrième gouvernements Jules Dufaure. 3. .
November 25 – Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife 's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
Events. January–March. January 1: Roebling 's is the longest suspension bridge. February 17: Suez Canal in use. March 30: Alaska bought by check. January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world.
July to December. 27 August – Eugène Fromentin, painter and writer (born 1820) 29 August – Félicien-César David, composer (born 1810) August – Etienne-Paulin Gagne, poet, essayist, lawyer, politician, inventor, and eccentric (born 1808) 10 October – Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, geologist and meteorologist (born 1814)
