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====== 1876 ======
|  * [[1870]]  |    * [[1871]]  |    * [[1872]]  |    * [[1873]]  |    * [[1874]]  |  * [[1875]]  |    * 1876  |    * [[1877]]  |    * [[1878]]  |    * [[1879]]  |

===== Events =====
==== Boone County ====
  * The [[First Universalist Church]] moves from [[Waterloo]] to [[Burlington]].
  * The "Great European" [[circus]] performs in [[Burlington]].
  * June - Following the shooting death of a white man, [[african-americans|African-American]] Smith Williams is taken from the [[Burlington]] Jail and lynched.

==== Kentucky ====
  * March 3 - The bizarre Kentucky Meat Shower takes place in Bath County, where what appear to be flakes of red meat fall from the sky.

==== U.S. & World ====
  * May 10 - The Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition opens. Exhibits include the telephone, the phonograph, and a sneak peek at the Statue of Liberty, still in progress.
  * June 25-26 - General Custer and the 7th U.S. Cavalry are routed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
  * Queen Victoria adds 'Empress of India' to her titles.

===== More Information =====
  * Boone County [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/36732/0|African American Tax List]], 1876.
  * //Boone County Recorder//, 1876:
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    * [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/35400/0|March]]
    * [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/35587/0|April]]
    * [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/35435/0|May]]
    * [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/35392/0|June]]
    * [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/35584/0|July]]
    * [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/35398/0|August]]
    * [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/32050/0|September]]
    * [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/35601/0|October]]
    * [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/35399/0|November]]
    * [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/35592/0|December]]