1877
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Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s -
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Centuries: 18th century -
19th century -
20th century
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Events
\n* January 1 - Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act, introduced by United Kingdom Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.\n* January 8 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana)\n* January 20 - Ottoman Turkey rejects proposals of internal reform and Balkan provisions - Conference of Constantinople ends\n* March 2 - U.S. presidential election, 1876: The United States declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876\n* March 4 - Emile Berliner invents the microphone.\n* March 4 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake debuts\n* March 15 - The first Test cricket match, between England and Australia\n* April 24 - Russia declares war of Turkey\n* May 6 - Realizing that his people were weakened by cold and hunger, Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.\n* May 8 - At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Dog Show opens (ends May 11).\n* May 10 - Romania declares itself independent from Turkey (recognized in 1881 after the end of the Romanian independence war).\n* May 16 - Romania declares war on Turkey\n* June 15 - Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.\n* June 26 - Eruption of Mount Cotopaxi in Ecuador causes severe mudflows that wipe out surrounding cities and valleys - 1000 dead\n* June 30 - British Mediterranean fleet is sent to Besika Bay\n* July 9 - All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon.\n* July 21 - A day after bloody rioting in Baltimore from Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of 9 rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia - Pittsburgh then erupts into widespread rioting.\n* August 9 - Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole - Near Big Hole River in Montana, a small band of Nez Percé Indians who refused government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army. The army lost 29 soldiers and Indians lost 89 warriors in a US Army win.\n* August 12 - Asaph Hall discovers Deimos, outer moon of Mars.\n* August 17 - Arizona blacksmith F.P. Cahill is fatally wounded by Billy the Kid. Cahill will die the next day, becoming the first person killed by the Kid.\n* August 18 - Asaph Hall discovers Phobos, inner moon of Mars.\n* September 5 - 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.\n* October 10 - Following the recovery of Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer's body from where he fell during the Battle of Little Big Horn the previous year, Custer is given a funeral with full military honors and is laid to rest at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.\n* November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound (this is considered to be Edison's first great invention) (Edison demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29).\n* December 14 - Serbia restates its previous declaration of war against Turkey
Births
\n* February 17 - Andre Maginot, politician,
Maginot Line (d.
1932)\n*
February 19 - Gabriele Münter, painter, member of
Blaue Reiter (d.
1962)\n*
February 25 -
Erich von Hornbostel, musicologist (d.
1935)\n*
March 2 –
Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough (+
1964)\n*
March 16 - Reza Pahlavi,
Shah of Iran (d.
1944)\n*
March 18 -
Edgar Cayce, psychic (d.
1945)\n*
June 14 -
Jane Bathori, opera singer (d.
1970)\n*
July 2 -
Hermann Hesse, writer (d.
1962)\n*
July 6 -
Arnaud Massy, champion golfer (d.
1950)\n*
August 7 -
Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater\n*
September 6 -
Buddy Bolden,
jazz musician (d.
1930)\n*
November 9 -
Allama Iqbal, philosopher-poet (d.
1938)\n*
December 3 - Richard William Pearse,
New Zealander airplane pioneer.\n*
Alois Kayser, German missionary, working on
Nauru
Deaths
\n*January 4 -
Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur\n*
January 21 -
Diamond Bessie Moore, prostitute\n*
September 2 -
Constantine Kanaris - Greek politician\n*
September 5 -
Crazy Horse, Chief of the
Oglala Sioux.\n*
October 16 -
Theodore Barrière, French dramatist
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