Notable Historical Events - 1877
1877 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
England's Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India |
Jan 8 |
Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory). |
Jan 15 |
US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens |
Jan 16 |
Color organ (for light shows) patented, by Bainbridge Bishop |
Jan 22 |
Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices. |
Jan 25 |
Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden |
Jan 30 |
Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces |
Feb 7 |
1st Guernsey Cattle Club organizes (NYC) |
Feb 12 |
1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem, Mass |
Feb 12 |
US railroad builders strike against wage reduction |
Feb 20 |
1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky |
Feb 20 |
International Association (minor baseball league) organizes |
Feb 27 |
US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner presidential election |
Mar 2 |
Rutherford B. Hayes (R) declared president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory |
Mar 3 |
Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in as the 19th US president |
Mar 4 |
Tchaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer" premieres in Moscow |
Mar 5 |
Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th US president |
Mar 12 |
Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony, Southern Africa. |
Mar 15 |
Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia v England at MCG |
Mar 16 |
Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 v Eng |
Mar 17 |
Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 v Eng |
Mar 18 |
President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Wash DC |
Mar 19 |
Australia beat England by 45 runs in very 1st Test match |
Mar 24 |
University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat |
Mar 31 |
British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown |
Mar 31 |
Test Cricket debut of Fred "Demon" Spofforth, Aust v Eng MCG |
Mar 31 |
The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in Ōita Nakatsu rebels. |
Apr 2 |
1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn |
Apr 10 |
1st human cannonball act performed in London |
Apr 10 |
Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia, SC |
Apr 12 |
British annex Transvaal, in South Africa |
Apr 12 |
Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game |
Apr 15 |
1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Mass |
Apr 19 |
Opera "Les Cloches de Cornerville" is produced (Paris) |
Apr 24 |
Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans) |
Apr 24 |
Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire. |
Apr 27 |
Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris) |
Apr 27 |
President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends |
May 5 |
Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. |
May 7 |
Cincinnati Enquirer first uses term "Bullpen" to indicate foul territory |
May 8 |
1st Westminster Dog Show held |
May 9 |
Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania. |
May 12 |
Ottawa Rough Riders 1st outside competition vs Britannia |
May 13 |
Caesar Franck's "Lesson Eolides" premieres |
May 16 |
May 16, 1877 political crisis in France. |
May 17 |
Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm |
May 22 |
3rd Kentucky Derby: Billy Walker aboard Baden-Baden wins in 2:38 |
May 24 |
5th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:45.5 |
Jun 1 |
Society of American Artists forms |
Jun 1 |
US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico |
Jun 9 |
11th Belmont: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:46 |
Jun 15 |
Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy |
Jun 17 |
Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon - the Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory. |
Jun 21 |
The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons. |
Jul 1 |
1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published |
Jul 9 |
First ever Wimbledon tennis championship begins - first offical lawn tennis tournament - men's singles only |
Jul 10 |
The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain. |
Jul 11 |
Kate Edger becomes New Zealand's first woman graduate and the first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts |
Jul 14 |
General strike brings US railroad to a stand still |
Jul 19 |
1st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64) |
Jul 20 |
Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Balt, kills 9 |
Jul 21 |
-27] US army breaks railroad strike |
Jul 23 |
1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations |
Jul 23 |
1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed |
Jul 24 |
1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers |
Aug 2 |
SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes |
Aug 5 |
Henry Morton Stanley's letter in order to aid reaches Boma at Congo |
Aug 10 |
Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians |
Aug 10 |
Phillies & Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM |
Aug 11 |
Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos |
Aug 12 |
Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device |
Aug 17 |
Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos |
Aug 22 |
Nez Perce-indians flee into Yellowstone National Park |
Sep 5 |
Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas |
Sep 11 |
Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen |
Sep 20 |
Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan) |
Sep 22 |
Rudolf Virchow delivers an anti-Darwinian speech to the Congress of German Naturalist and Physicians, Munich where he spoke against the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools |
Sep 23 |
Hurricane strikes Curacao & Bonaire kills 200 |
Sep 24 |
Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion |
Sep 27 |
John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti |
Sep 30 |
1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club) |
Oct 5 |
Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War |
Oct 9 |
American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland) |
Oct 15 |
45th Congress (1877-79) convenes |
Oct 17 |
Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa |
Oct 20 |
Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres |
Oct 22 |
The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House. |
Nov 1 |
Dutch government of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns |
Nov 9 |
American Chemical Society chartered in NY |
Nov 17 |
Gilbert and Sullivan's operette "Sorcerer" premieres in London |
Nov 21 |
Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph) - first machine to play and record sound |
Nov 29 |
US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time |
Dec 2 |
Camille Saint-Saëns' opera "Samson et Dalila" premieres in Weimar |
Dec 6 |
1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison) |
Dec 6 |
Washington Post publishes 1st edition |
Dec 7 |
Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph (gramophone) to the editors of "Scientific American" |
Dec 15 |
Thomas Edison patents phonograph |
Dec 16 |
Anton Bruckner's 3rd Symphony in D, premieres |
Dec 22 |
"American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass) |
Dec 26 |
Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st natl convention |
Dec 28 |
John Stevens, applies for a patent for his flour rolling mill |
Dec 30 |
Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna |
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