1876 in India

Events in the year 1876 in India.

Incumbents

• Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, Viceroy
• Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy (from 12 April)

Events

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

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).
• 25 December – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Statesman and founder of Pakistan (d. 1948).

References