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.
- February 20, 1877 – Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
- April 12, 1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
- April 24, 1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
- May 3, 1877 – Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
- 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.
- May 16, 1877 – May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
- June 21, 1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
- July 9, 1877 – The inaugural Wimbledon Championships opens.
- 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.
- August 12, 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos.
- August 18, 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos.
- 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 – 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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