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.
- January 22, 1877 – Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
- February 20, 1877 – Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
- 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 3, 1877 – Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
- May 6, 1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
- May 9, 1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
- 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.
- 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.
- August 12, 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos.
- 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.
- November 21, 1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
- 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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