1877 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1877?
- January 1, 1877 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
- 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 31, 1877 – The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
- April 24, 1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
- May 5, 1877 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
- 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.
- June 15, 1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
- 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 20, 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- July 9, 1877 – The inaugural Wimbledon Championships opens.
- July 10, 1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
- August 18, 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.
- September 5, 1877 – Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
- September 24, 1877 – Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
- 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 21, 1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
- November 29, 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
- December 6, 1877 – The first edition of the Washington Post is published.
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