1877

Year 1877 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 12-day slower ).

January - March

 * - proclaimed Empress of  by the, introduced by.
 * - and his warriors fight their last battle with the.
 * - rejects proposals of internal reform and Balkan provisions -  ends.
 * - In the, the is resolved with the selection of  as the winner even though  had won the popular vote on ,.
 * invents the.
 * 's  debuts.
 * becomes, succeeding.
 * - The first match, between  and
 * - For the first and only time in history, the between the Universities of  and  is declared a "dead heat" (i.e. a draw).
 * - For the first and only time in history, the between the Universities of  and  is declared a "dead heat" (i.e. a draw).

April - June

 * - : declares war on.
 * - : leads his band of  into  to avoid harassment by the  under Colonel.
 * - Realizing that his people were weakened by cold and hunger, Chief of the  surrenders to  troops in.
 * - At Gilmore's Gardens in, the first opens (ends ).
 * - in France.
 * - (May 9 ) - declares itself independent from  (recognized in  after the end of the Romanian independence war).
 * -  officially incorporated as a city
 * - becomes the first  cadet to graduate from the.
 * - : - The  defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the.
 * - The hanged at  prison in.
 * - Eruption of in  causes severe mudflows that wipe out surrounding cities and valleys - 1000 dead.
 * - British Mediterranean fleet is sent to.

July - September

 * - begins its first lawn tennis tournament at.
 * - The then of  formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of.
 * - begins. Riots by  railroad workers in  lead to a  and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale worker's rebellion in St. Louis, briefly establishing a Communist government before  calls in the armed forces.
 * - : First battle in the.
 * - Second battle in the.
 * - : - Near  in, a small band of  Indians who refused government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the . The army lost 29 soldiers and Indians lost 89 warriors in a US Army win.
 * - discovers, outer  of.
 * - blacksmith F.P. Cahill is fatally wounded by . Cahill will die the next day, becoming the first person killed by the Kid.
 * - discovers, inner  of.
 * -, Third battle in the.
 * - : Oglala chief  is ed by a  soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at  in.

October - December

 * - Following the recovery of Lieutenant-Colonel 's body from where he fell during the the previous year, Custer is given a funeral with full military honors and is laid to rest at the  at.
 * - announces his invention of the, 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 ).
 * - Fourth battle, concluding the.
 * - restates its previous declaration of war against Turkey.

Undated

 *  magazine founded.

Ongoing events

 * War between and the , leading to the formation of  in . See.

January - June

 * -, Croatian painter (d. )
 * -, British mathematician (d. )
 * -, German mathematician (d. )
 * -, French politician (d. )
 * -, German painter (d. )
 * -, Austrian musicologist (d. )
 * -, Duchess of Marlborough (d. )
 * , Russian composer (d. )
 * , German ethnologist (d. )
 * , American inventor (d. )
 * -, Shah of Iran (d. )
 * -, American psychic (d. )
 * -, Canadian politician (d. )
 * -, German missionary (d. )
 * -, German psychoanalyst (d. )
 * -, Youngest sister of author (d. , )
 * -, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. )
 * -, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. )
 * -, poet, (d. )
 * -, French opera singer (d. )
 * -, French opera singer (d. )

July - December

 * -, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. )
 * - (شفيقة شعشع), Lebanese-Australian Matriarch (d. )
 * -, French golfer (d. )
 * -, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. )
 * -, Hungarian conductor (d. )
 * -, English cricketer (d. )
 * -, U.S. Senator from Maine (d. )
 * -, Swedish figure skater (d. )
 * -, American writer, poet, historian (d. )
 * -, co-founder car firm, pioneer aviator, (d. )
 * -, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. )
 * -, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. )
 * -, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. )
 * -, American jazz musician (d. )
 * -, Swiss pianist (d. )
 * -, English cricketer (d. )
 * -, English cricketer (d. )
 * -, Indian philosopher, one of the profound founding fathers of the Muslims of India (d. )
 * -, English author (d. )
 * -, Hungarian poet (d. )
 * -, Swiss-born businessman and founder of (d. )
 * -, New Zealand airplane pioneer (d. )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, Scottish inventor (b. )
 * -, American entrepreneur (b. )
 * -, British businessman, essayist and journalist (b. )
 * , musicologist (b. )
 * , queen consort of the Netherlands (b. )
 * -, British Chartist leader (b. )
 * -, British Chartist leader (b. )
 * -, American Mormon leader (b. )
 * -, Officer in the and the  (b.)
 * -, Greek politician (b. )
 * -, Oglala Sioux chief (b. )
 * -, English photographer (b. )
 * -, samurai (b. )
 * -, first , and the eighth (b. )
 * -, French dramatist (b. )
 * -, Prussian field marshal (b. )
 * -, Brazilian novelist (b. )
 * -, French painter (b. )
 * -, French painter (b. )


 * See also .