1876 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]
