Events
- 28 February – Nelson by-election - Mel Courtney (Labour) elected to replace the late Stanley Whitehead.
- 7 June – The nation's first McDonald's restaurant opens in central Porirua.
- 17 July–1 August – New Zealand competes at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, despite 28 African nations boycotting the Games over New Zealand's sporting ties with apartheid South Africa. The nation wins four medals: two gold, one silver and one bronze.
- 15 September – The Union Company's Lyttelton to Wellington ferry service is cancelled, having operated since 1895 and by the Ministry of Transport since 1974, facing increased competition from air travel and the Railways' Cook Strait ferry service.
- 1 November – The Waitangi Day Act 1976 commences, replacing the New Zealand Day public holiday with Waitangi Day on 6 February.
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