1877 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1877?
- January 8, 1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
- February 20, 1877 – The world’s first professional sports league, the International Association for Professional Base Ball Players is founded in Pittsburgh.
- March 2, 1877 – U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
- March 31, 1877 – The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
- April 12, 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
- May 8, 1877 – At Gilmore’s Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
- May 9, 1877 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
- May 10, 1877 – Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogălniceanu’s Declaration of Independence. This act is recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
- June 17, 1877 – Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon – the Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
- June 21, 1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
- July 10, 1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
- July 21, 1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
- August 9, 1877 – Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army
- August 12, 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos.
- August 18, 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.
- October 5, 1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
- October 22, 1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
- November 29, 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
- December 6, 1877 – Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb”.
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