Significant 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
Did You Know?
First ever Wimbledon tennis championship begins - first offical lawn tennis tournament - men's singles only
On July 9, 1877
World Leaders in 1877
Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister
Otto von Bismarck
German Statesman
Famous People in 1877
Claude Monet
Impressionist Painter
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer
Aga Khan III
Frederick Soddy
Hermann HesseWould 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