Sitting Bull had a vision of "soldiers falling into his camp like grasshoppers from the sky" during a Sun Dance on Rosebud Creek, Montana.
Sweet, yellow bananas were introduced in the United States at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. They were foil wrapped and sold for .10.
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A snowstorm that started several days earlier finally broke after leaving up to 12" of snow allowing Terry's command to break its "Snow Camp" which it had been huddled in for the entire time.
Traditionally, snow this late in the near is not really a big deal on the Northern Plains.
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Milton Hershey, age18, opened his first candy store in Philadelphia after having served a four year apprenticeship in the trade.
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A bloodless military coup d'état deposed Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz, and resulted in the the appointment of Murad V as the Sultan. Midhat Pasha would preside over a constitutional committee for the next two years, a period known as the First Constitutional Era.
Czar Alexander IIsigned the Ems Ukaz to eliminate the Ukrainian language from the cultural sphere and limited it with domestic use.
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For the second time that year, Gen. Crook's command left Ft. Fetterman, crossing the swollen North Platte on ferries, bound for the Powder River Basin.
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The Army issued specifications for types and supplies of heating stoves and cooking ranges for the first time.
A company of forty Texas Rangers left Laredo ,Texas for the Nueces Strip with orders to find, kill or capture John King Fisher, the leader of a band of cattle rustlers
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Boston pitcher Joe Borden pitched the first official no-hitter in Major League Baseball history. The Boston Red Stockings, defeated the Cincinnati Reds 8-0.
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Gen. Alfred H. Terry left a substantial detachment from Ft. Abraham Lincoln. The large detachment included companies from the 6th and 17th Infantry regiments and the entire 7th Cavalry, the latter under the command of Lt. Col. Custer.
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President Grant established the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation near Palm Springs, California.
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The Centennial International Exhibition, the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine, commenced in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
On the opening day Alexander Graham Bell presented a paper on communicating musical sounds by wire (telephone).
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Chicago was referred to as The Windy City for the first known time, in an article by the Cincinnati Enquirer. The headline was:
THAT WINDY CITY. Some Freaks of the Last Chicago Tornado.
Locally at least, Casper Wyoming is sometimes called "Wind City".
Ueno Park in Tokyo was dedicated.
Nikolaus Otto working with Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach started the world’s first internal-combustion engine that efficiently burned fuel directly in a piston chamber.
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Supposedly the first Christian sermon in the Black Hills was preached at Custer City, South Dakota by Methodist layman Henry Weston Smith.
He would be murdered that following August.
While this was notable, I'm frankly really skeptical that this was the "first". American histories of the settlement of the West tend to pretend that when European Americans first shows up they were the first people of European ancestry to show up, which is very far from true. The Corps of Discovery, for instance, merely re-trod ground that the French Canadians had been hiking for years. Catholic missionaries had been in the region, moreover, for decades by this point.
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Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil became the first reigning monarch to visit Wyoming. He was visiting the United States as part of the Centennial celebrations that year. He probably didn't appreciate it, however, as his trip into the state by train was at night and he was asleep when a reporter attempted to visit him in Cheyenne.
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The Royal Titles Act conveyed an imperial title on the King of the United Kingdom, with Queen Victoria being the first to receive the title as Empress of India.
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April 27, 1876
Executive Mansion
It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the White Mountain Indian Reservation in Arizona Territory lying west of the following- described line, viz: Commencing at the northwest corner of the present reserve, a point at the southern edge of the Black Mesas, due north of Sombrero or Plumoso Butte; thence due south to said Sombrero or Plumoso Butte; thence southeastwardly to Chromo Peak; thence in a southerly direction to the mouth of the San Pedro River; thence due south to the southern boundary of the reservation, be, and the same hereby is, restored to the public domain.
U. S. Grant
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The Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Caps played the first ever game of the newly organized National League. The Red Caps won 6-5.
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