Important Historical Events of the year 1877, Year 1877 in History

List of 1877 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1877

What happened in the year 1877?

Date	Event
January 1, 1877	Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
January 8, 1877	Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
January 20, 1877	The last day of the Constantinople Conference results in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
February 20, 1877	Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
March 2, 1877	Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 U.S. presidential election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.
March 15, 1877	First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
April 12, 1877	The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
April 24, 1877	Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
May 5, 1877	American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
May 6, 1877	Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
May 8, 1877	At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
May 9, 1877	Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. The date will become recognised as the Independence Day of Romania.
May 16, 1877	The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.
June 15, 1877	Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
June 17, 1877	American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
June 20, 1877	Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
July 9, 1877	The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
July 10, 1877	The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
July 21, 1877	After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
August 9, 1877	American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole: A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.
August 18, 1877	American astronomer Asaph Hall discovers Phobos, one of Mars’s moons.[11][12]
September 5, 1877	American 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.
September 24, 1877	The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.
October 5, 1877	The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
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 24, 1877	Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
November 29, 1877	Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
December 10, 1877	Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.