1877

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s

Years: 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 - 1877 - 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882

• January 8 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry[?] (Montana)
• 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
• March 4 - Emile Berliner invents the microphone.
• March 4 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake[?] debuts
• March 15 - The first Test cricket match, between England and Australia
• 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.
• War between Russia and the Ottoman Empire (does this war have a name?), leading to the formation of Bulgaria in 1878. See Russian Foreign Affairs after the Crimean War.
• May 8 - At Gilmore's Gardens[?] in New York City, the first Westminster Dog Show[?] opens (ends May 11).

• Phonograph patented by Thomas Alva Edison
• Porfirio Diaz becomes President of Mexico
• Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1877 in literature:

Births

• February 17 - Andre Maginot[?], politician, Maginot Line (+ 1932)
• February 19 - Gabriele Münter[?], painter, member of Blaue Reiter (+ 1962)
• March 18 - Edgar Cayce, psychic (+ 1945)
• May 27 - Isadora Duncan, free form and interpretative dancer (+ 1927)
• June 14 - Jane Bathori, opera singer
• July 2 - Hermann Hesse

Deaths

• January 4 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur
• September 2 - Constantine Kanaris - Greek politician
• September 5 - Crazy Horse, Chief of the Oglala Sioux.
• October 16 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist