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.
- January 22, 1877 – Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
- 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.
- April 12, 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
- April 24, 1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
- 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.
- 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.
- June 20, 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- July 10, 1877 – The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
- July 14, 1877 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US, when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers have their wages cut for the second time in a year.
- 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 12, 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos.
- 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.
- 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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