What happened in 1877

29 events　Japan 2, North America 10, Europe 11, USSR / Russia 3, Asia 1, Middle East 1, Latin America 1

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Highlights of 1877

Japan2

  • Apr 12The University of Tokyo is officially established in Japan.
  • Sep 24Battle of Shiroyama in Kagoshima, Japan: The Imperial Japanese Army annihilates heavily outnumbered rebel samurai under Saigō Takamori (who is killed), ending the Satsuma Rebellion.

North America10

  • Jan 8Great Sioux War of 1876: Battle of Wolf Mountain – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry in Montana.
  • Mar 2Compromise of 1877: The 1876 United States presidential election is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
  • Apr 24The Compromise of 1877 forces federal troops to withdraw from the Southern United States. This is the latest date disputed by historians when the Reconstruction Era ended and when the Gilded Age started.
  • May 5Great Sioux War of 1876: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada, to avoid harassment by the U.S. Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
  • May 6Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to U.S. troops in Nebraska.
  • Jun 17American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon – The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon, in the Idaho Territory. This begins the Nez Perce War.
  • Jul 16Great Railroad Strike of 1877: Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore lead to a sympathy strike and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale worker's rebellion in St. Louis, briefly establishing a communist government, before U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes calls in the armed forces.
  • Aug 9American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – Near Big Hole River, Montana, a small band of Nez Perce people who refuse government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army. The army loses 29 soldiers, and the Indians lose 89 warriors, in an Army victory.
  • Sep 5American 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.
  • DecInvention of the phonographEdison built a machine that cut sound into grooves and played it back. The first recording was “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” It was the first machine that could play back recorded sound.

Europe11

  • Jan 1Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act 1876, introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the prime minister of the United Kingdom.
  • May 1616 May 1877 crisis in France: Parliament passes a no-confidence motion against the government appointed by President MacMahon.
  • Jul 9The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club stages the first Wimbledon Championships in lawn tennis. English cricketer Spencer Gore becomes first Wimbledon gentlemen's singles champion (the only event held).
  • Jul 19Russo-Turkish War: The first battle in the siege of Plevna is fought.
  • Jul 30Russo-Turkish War: The Turkish army and its allies destroy the Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora and massacre the inhabitants.
  • Jul 30Russo-Turkish War: The second battle in the siege of Plevna is fought.
  • Sep 1The Battle of Lovcha, third battle in the siege of Plevna, is fought. Russian forces successfully reduce the Ottoman fortress at Lovcha.
  • Nov 14Henrik Ibsen's first contemporary realist drama The Pillars of Society is premièred at the Odense Teater.
  • Dec 9The fourth battle of the Russo-Turkish War is fought, concluding the siege of Plevna.
  • Dec 16The premiere of Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 is given by the Vienna Philharmonic. Many of the audience walk out.
  • Dec 30The premiere of Brahms' Symphony No. 2 is given by the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Hans Richter.

USSR / Russia3

  • Mar 4Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake debuts in Moscow.
  • Apr 24Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878): Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
  • JulThe serial publication of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is concluded, in The Russian Messenger.

Asia1

  • May 30Yakub Beg of Yettishar dies having been poisoned in Korla.

Middle East1

  • Jan 20The Constantinople Conference ends, with Ottoman Turkey rejecting proposals of internal reform and Balkan provisions.

Latin America1

  • May 9Iquique Earthquake and tsunami: An earthquake of at least magnitude 8.5 Ms occurs on the west coast of South America, killing 2,541 around the Pacific Rim.