Today in History for Year 1877

Months in Year 1877: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 101

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Apr 10th - Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 163

Jan 2nd - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906)
Jan 4th - Gibson Gowland, England, actor (Blind Husbands, Phantom of the Opera)
Jan 7th - Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer (1 great dog)
Jan 10th - Frederick Gardner Cottrell, inventor (elecrostatic precipitator)
Jan 12th - Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934)
Jan 15th - Lewis M Terman, Ind, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test)
Jan 17th - Hans Jelmoli, composer
Jan 17th - May Gibbs, Australian children's author (d. 1969)
Jan 18th - Samuel Zemurray, U.S. businessman (d.1961)
Jan 19th - Charles Coburn, Savannah Ga, actor (Devil & Miss Jones)
Jan 20th - Ruth St Denis, Newark NJ, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses)
Jan 22nd - Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics
Jan 26th - Kees van Dongen, Netherland, French painter
Jan 29th - Georges Catroux, French general (d. 1969)
Jan 31st - Max Ettlinger, German philosopher
Feb 1st - Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer
Feb 7th - Feliks Nowowiejski, composer
Feb 7th - Godfrey H Hardy, England, number theorist
Feb 7th - Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs (1929-..)
Feb 13th - Jazeps Medins, composer
Feb 15th - Louis Renault, French automobile executive (d. 1944)
Feb 17th - Henri Vandeputte, Belgian author/poet (L'homme Jeune)
Feb 17th - Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (d. 1904)
Feb 17th - André Maginot, French politician (d. 1932)
Feb 18th - Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann, [Theodora], Dutch author/actress (Dead Water)
Feb 19th - Else Berg, German/Dutch painter
Feb 19th - Louis Francois-Marie Aubert, French composer (Habanera)
Feb 19th - Gabriele Münter, German painter (d. 1962)
Feb 21st - Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist
Feb 22nd - Yme C Schuitmaker, Dutch potato salesman/dramatist
Feb 24th - Rudolf Ganz, composer
Feb 24th - Ettie Rout, New Zealand activist (d. 1936)
Feb 25th - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (d. 1935)
Feb 26th - Carel S Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet/writer (socialism)
Feb 26th - Russell Alexander, composer
Feb 27th - Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (d. 1952)
Feb 28th - Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer
Mar 3rd - Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor
Mar 4th - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer
Mar 4th - Daniel G van Beuningen, Dutch art collector
Mar 4th - Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
Mar 5th - Malcolm D Whitman, tennis champ (US Open-1898)
Mar 9th - Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemist
Mar 10th - David M Chumaceiro, Curacao, poet
Mar 12th - Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia
Mar 17th - Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (People/Nutcracker)
Mar 18th - Clem Hill, cricketer (all-time great Australian batsman)
Mar 18th - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945)
Mar 25th - Walter Little, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
Apr 2nd - Arnold Schering, German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik)
Apr 10th - Alfred Kubin, writer
Apr 14th - Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament scholar
Apr 17th - Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat (d. 1949)
Apr 18th - Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author (d. 1950)
Apr 19th - Ole Evinrude, inventor (outboard marine engine)
Apr 23rd - Arthur Farwell, composer
Apr 24th - Charles Cuvillier, composer
Apr 30th - Alice B. Toklas, American companion of Gertrude Stein (d. 1967)
May 3rd - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925)
May 4th - Arthur Lang, US, boxer/businessman (Died Aug 8, 1992 at 115)
May 10th - Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, composer
May 25th - Billy Murray, singer (Denver Nightengale)
May 26th - Isadora Duncan, SF, free form/interpretative dancer
May 26th - Jean Schlumberger, French writer (La Mort de Sparte)
May 26th - Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34)
Jun 3rd - Raoul Dufy, France, Fauvist painter (Palm)
Jun 4th - Heinrich Wieland, German chemist (bile acids-Nobel 1927)
Jun 5th - Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister (1939-45)
Jun 7th - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
Jun 9th - Rudolf Borchardt, writer
Jun 11th - Renee Vivien, English-born poet (d. 1909)
Jun 12th - Thomas C Hart, US admiral (Asiatic fleet)
Jun 14th - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (d. 1970)
Jun 18th - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator ("I want you" Uncle Sam)
Jun 19th - Charles Coburn, Macon Ga, actor (Acad-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
Jun 23rd - Blair Fairchild, composer
Jun 23rd - Hermann Stephani, composer
Jun 24th - Aleksei M Remizov, Russian writer (Iveren)
Nobel Laureate Novelist Hermann Hesse (Jul 2nd) Jul 2nd - Hermann Hesse, Switzerland, novelist/poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946), (d.1962)
Jul 6th - David Stanley Smith, composer
Jul 6th - Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier/president of Spain (1931-36)
Jul 13th - Karl Erb, German tenor
Jul 16th - Béla Schick, Hungarian/US children artist (Serum Krankheit)
Jul 19th - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
Jul 24th - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1954)
Jul 26th - Hubert Ahaus, missionary (Harvest Fields)
Jul 27th - Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
Aug 1st - Charlotte Hughes, 1990 (oldest person in Great Britain)
Aug 1st - Jan van den Tempel, Dutch MP (SDAP)
Aug 5th - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
Aug 6th - Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952)
Aug 7th - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
Aug 10th - Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance
Aug 10th - Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
Aug 11th - Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d.1954)
Aug 16th - Karl L Hoschna, composer
Aug 25th - Joshua L Cowen, inventor (electric train)
Aug 27th - Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd)
Aug 27th - Lloyd Cassel Douglas, novelist
Aug 27th - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963)

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 49 of 49

Jan 4th - Cornelius Vanderbilt, US robber baron, dies at 82
Jan 9th - Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
Jan 11th - Pietro Romani, composer, dies at 85
Jan 24th - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
Feb 1st - Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer, dies at 71
Mar 4th - Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch governor (St Maarten), dies at 42
Mar 9th - Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Neth Spectator), dies at 58
Mar 12th - Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer, dies at 52
Mar 24th - Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51
Mar 28th - Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer, dies at 77
Mar 31st - Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75
Apr 7th - Errico Petrella, composer, dies at 63
Apr 22nd - James P. Kirkwood, American civil engineer (b. 1807)
May 6th - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)
May 14th - John Roberts, composer, dies at 54
May 29th - John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63
Jun 3rd - Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo
Jun 3rd - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1800)
Jun 6th - Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca & chief Standing Bear, dies
Jun 7th - Winand C H Staring, geologist (Bottom of Netherlands), dies at 68
Jul 13th - Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz, dies at 65
Aug 3rd - Karl Georg Lickl, composer, dies at 75
Aug 5th - Gustavus, Crown Prince of Sweden (b. 1799)
Aug 12th - James Drummond, historical painter, dies
Aug 29th - Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies
Sep 2nd - Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (b. 1793)
Sep 3rd - Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77), dies at 80
Sep 5th - Crazy Horse, [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27
Sep 12th - Julius Reitz, composer, dies at 64
Sep 17th - William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, dies at 77
Sep 23rd - Urbain JJ Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies
Sep 26th - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
Sep 30th - Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce indians, dies in battle
Oct 3rd - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1814)
Oct 14th - Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer, dies at 68
Oct 16th - John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83
Oct 16th - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
Oct 28th - Johann Herbeck, composer, dies at 45
Oct 28th - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
Confederate General/KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest (Oct 29th) Oct 29th - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general, dies at 56
Nov 2nd - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
Nov 13th - Pietro Coppola, composer, dies at 83
Dec 10th - Federico Ricci, composer, dies at 68
Dec 10th - Jared Kirtland, US physician/naturalist, dies
Dec 12th - Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48
Dec 27th - Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56
Dec 29th - Willem Sassen, Dutch attorney general on Curacao (Affair-S), dies
Dec 31st - Alberto Mazzucato, composer, dies at 64
Dec 31st - JD Gustave Courbet, French painter (Baigneuses), dies at 58