Important Events
- Apr 15 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville in Massachusetts
- Apr 24 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
- Jul 11 Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts
- Sep 24 Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
- Nov 29 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time
- Dec 22 Thomas Edison's phonograph is announced by Scientific American
1877 in Sport
- Mar 31 Test Cricket debut of feared Australian fast bowler Fred "The Demon" Spofforth; Australia loses 2nd Test by 4 wickets vs England at Melbourne Cricket Ground
- Jul 9 First ever Wimbledon tennis championship begins - first offical lawn tennis tournament - men's singles only
- Jul 19 1st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: 27-year-old English rackets player Spencer Gore wins inaugural event; beats William Marshall 6-1, 6-2, 6-4
Aga Khan III
Frederick Soddy
Hermann HesseWorld Leaders in 1877
Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister- Otto von Bismarck
German Statesman
Benjamin Disraeli
Otto von BismarckFamous People in 1877
- Claude Monet
Impressionist Painter - Giuseppe Verdi
Composer - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyWould You Believe?
Thomas Edison records himself reciting "Mary had a little lamb"
On December 6, 1877
Famous Weddings
- Jul 6 Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (37) weds Antonina Miliukova (29) at the Church of Saint George in Moscow, Russia
- Jul 11 Scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell (30) weds Mabel Hubbard (19) at the Hubbard estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Brigham Young
Charles Wilkes
Crazy Horse
Nathan Bedford Forrest
William Henry Fox Talbot