1876 in India
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{{Year in India|1876}}
Events in the year 1876 in India.
Incumbents
- Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, Viceroy{{cite web|title=Thomas George Baring, 1st earl of Northbrook – British statesman|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-George-Baring-1st-Earl-of-Northbrook|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=19 May 2018|language=en}}
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy (from 12 April){{cite book|last1=Shaw|first1=William Arthur|title=The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of Knights Bachelors. Incorporating a Complete List of Knights Bachelors Dubbed in Ireland|date=1906|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=9780806304434|page=305|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l4xUsPyL6koC&pg=PA305|language=en}}
Events
- National income - ₹3,887 million
- Queen Victoria is proclaimed "Empress of India" and transfers powers from East India Company to the British Crown.{{cite web|title=Victoria – Life & Reign|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Victoria-queen-of-United-Kingdom|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=29 May 2018|language=en}}
- Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health was set up as Tezpur Lunatic Asylum in April, 1876.{{Cite web|title=LGBRIMH|url=https://www.lgbrimh.gov.in/history.html|access-date=2021-04-16|website=www.lgbrimh.gov.in}}
Law
- Royal Titles Act (British statute)
- Customs Consolidation Act (British statute)
- Slave Trade Act (British statute)
- Statute Law Revision (Substituted Enactments) Act (British statute)
Births
- 15 September – Sharat Chandra Chatterji, novelist (d. 1938).{{cite book|last1=Experts|first1=Disha|title=The Fundamentals of General Knowledge for Competitive Exams – UPSC/ State PCS/ SSC/ Banking/ Insurance/ Railways/ BBA/ MBA/ Defence – 3rd Edition|date=2018|publisher=Disha Publications|isbn=9789387421240|page=88|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VTNFDwAAQBAJ&pg=SL200-PA88|language=en}}
- 25 December – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Statesman and founder of Pakistan (d. 1948).{{cite web|title=Historic Figures: Mohammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948)|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/jinnah_mohammad_ali.shtml|website=BBC – History|access-date=29 May 2018}}
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