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1877

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1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

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Events

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January - April

January 1 - Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act, introduced by United Kingdom Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
January 8 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana)
January 20 - Ottoman Turkey rejects proposals of internal reform and Balkan provisions - Conference of Constantinople ends
March 2 - In the Compromise of 1877, the U.S. presidential election of 1876 is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner 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
March 24 - For the first and only time in history, the Boat Race between the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford is declared a "dead heat" (i.e. a draw).
April 24 - Russia declares war on Turkey

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May - August

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 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.
May 8 - At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens (ends May 11).
May 10 - Romania declares itself independent from Turkey (recognized in 1881 after the end of the Romanian independence war).
May 16 - Romania declares war on Turkey
June 15 - Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
June 21 - The Molly Maquires hanged at Carbon County prison in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
June 26 - Eruption of Mount Cotopaxi in Ecuador causes severe mudflows that wipe out surrounding cities and valleys - 1000 dead
June 30 - British Mediterranean fleet is sent to Besika Bay
July 9 - All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon.
July 19 - First battle in the Siege of Pleven.
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.
July 30 - Second battle in the Siege of Pleven.
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.
August 12 - Asaph Hall discovers Deimos, outer moon of Mars.
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.
August 18 - Asaph Hall discovers Phobos, inner moon of Mars.

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September - December

September 1 - Battle of Lovcha, Third battle in the Siege of Pleven.
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.
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.
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).
December 9 - Fourth battle, concluding the Siege of Pleven.
December 14 - Serbia restates its previous declaration of war against Turkey