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List of years in India
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Events in the year 1876 in India.

Incumbents

Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, Viceroy^[1]
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy (from 12 April)^[2]

Events

National income - ₹3,887 million
Queen Victoria is proclaimed "Empress of India" and transfers powers from East India Company to the British Crown.^[3]
Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health was set up as Tezpur Lunatic Asylum in April, 1876.^[4]

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).^[5]
25 December – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Statesman and founder of Pakistan (d. 1948).^[6]

References

^ "Thomas George Baring, 1st earl of Northbrook – British statesman". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
^ Shaw, William Arthur (1906). 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. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 305. ISBN 9780806304434.
^ "Victoria – Life & Reign". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
^ "LGBRIMH". www.lgbrimh.gov.in. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
^ Experts, Disha (2018). The Fundamentals of General Knowledge for Competitive Exams – UPSC/ State PCS/ SSC/ Banking/ Insurance/ Railways/ BBA/ MBA/ Defence – 3rd Edition. Disha Publications. p. 88. ISBN 9789387421240.
^ "Historic Figures: Mohammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948)". BBC – History. Retrieved 29 May 2018.

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