| 21st January 1976 | The first commercial Concorde flight takes off. |
| 4th February 1976 | The 1976 Winter Olympics open in Innsbruck, Austria. |
| 1st March 1976 | Home Secretary Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for scheduled terrorist crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland. |
| 16th March 1976 | Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister. |
| 26th March 1976 | The Queen sends the first royal e-mail. |
| 3rd April 1976 | The United Kingdom wins the 1976 Eurovision Song Contest. The country is represented by Brotherhood of Man, with the song “Save Your Kisses for Me“. |
| 5th April 1976 | James Callaghan becomes the new Prime Minister. |
| 16th April 1976 | As a measure to curb population growth, the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to twenty-one years for men and eighteen years for women. |
| 14th June 1976 | The trial of Donald Neilson begins at Oxford Crown Court. The killer is also known as the 'Black Panther'. |
| 20th June 1976 | Czechoslovakia beats West Germany 5-3 on penalties to win the 1976 European Football Championships. The game had ended 2-2 after extra time. |
| 3rd July 1976 | The Great Heat Wave reaches its peak in the United Kingdom. The country had already been struggling with a drought. |
| 17th July 1976 | The 1976 Summer Olympics open in Montreal, Canada. |
| 27th July 1976 | The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Uganda. |
| 5th August 1976 | ‘Big Ben’ suffers internal damage and the clock stops working for over nine months. |
| 14th August 1976 | Ten thousand Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland. |
| 25th September 1976 | The Irish rock band U2 is formed after drummer Larry Mullen Jr. posts a note seeking members for a band on the notice board of his Dublin school. |
| 19th October 1976 | The Chimpanzee is placed on the list of endangered species. |
| 3rd December 1976 | Bob Marley and his manager Don Taylor are shot in an assassination attempt in Kingston, Jamaica. |