1877
Appearance
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
Events
- January 8 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry (Montana)
- Rutherford B. Hayes succeeds Ulysses S. Grant as President of the United States of America
- Jacint Verdaguer publishes L'Atlàntida
- 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.
- Phonograph patented by Thomas Alva Edison
- Porfirio Diaz becomes President of Mexico
- Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India
Births
- June 14 - Jane Bathori, opera singer
- July 2 - Hermann Hesse
Deaths
- January 4 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur
- October 16 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist
- Constantine Kanaris - Greek politician