1976

Events

 * 12 January - Agatha Christie died. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Summer

 * The Vardans attempted an invasion of Earth with the Monk's assistance. (PROSE: No Future)
 * A meteorite landed in New York City's Central Park, temporarily giving Alice Trefusis super-powers. (AUDIO: Starfall)

Late summer or early autumn

 * Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart retired from UNIT and became a maths teacher at Brendon Public School. (TV: Mawdryn Undead)

Unknown Dates

 * In San Francisco, Carolyn McConnell met the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones, who were hunting vampires. (PROSE: Vampire Science)
 * James Callaghan of the Labour Party became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served in that position until 1979. (AUDIO: The Oseidon Adventure) He was succeeded by Margaret Thatcher. (TV: Tooth and Claw, Father's Day)
 * How I Saved the World by Alexander Lullington-Smythe was published by Aphrodite Press. Although the book was "very publicly discredited" in 1978, a film adaptation entitled Prey for a Miracle was released in November 1980. It was directed by a newcomer named Anthony Jones and starred veteran and horror star Peter Cushing in the lead role of "the mysterious government adviser, Doctor Who," a character loosely based on the First Doctor. (PROSE: Salvation)
 * Two priests who were members of the Order of Saint Peter pursued a vampire from Poland to Los Angeles and destroyed it. One of them stayed behind to found a chapter of the order there, and later became the father of Becky Lee Kowalczyck. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell)