1877 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1877?
- January 1, 1877 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
- January 22, 1877 – Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
- 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 6, 1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
- May 8, 1877 – At Gilmore’s Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
- 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.
- May 16, 1877 – May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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