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| Year | Name / Event | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 01-01-1877 | Queen Victoria | Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India. |
| 02-03-1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 U.S. presidential election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote. |
| 05-05-1877 | American Indian Wars | American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. |
| 05-09-1877 | American Indian Wars | American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska. |
| 05-10-1877 | Nez Perce War | The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end. |
| 06-05-1877 | Crazy Horse | Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska. |
| 08-01-1877 | Crazy Horse | Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory. |
| 08-05-1877 | Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show | At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens. |
| 09-05-1877 | Mihail Kogălniceanu | Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. The date will become recognised as the Independence Day of Romania. |
| 09-07-1877 | 1877 Wimbledon Championship | The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins. |
| 09-08-1877 | American Indian Wars | American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole: A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army. |
| 10-07-1877 | Villa | The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain. |
| 10-12-1877 | Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) | Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria. |
| 12-04-1877 | United Kingdom | The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal. |
| 15-03-1877 | English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1876–77 | First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia. |
| 16-05-1877 | 16 May 1877 crisis | The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France. |
| 17-06-1877 | Battle of White Bird Canyon | American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory. |
| 18-08-1877 | Astronomer | American astronomer Asaph Hall discovers Phobos, one of Mars's moons. |
| 20-01-1877 | Constantinople Conference | The last day of the Constantinople Conference results in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans. |
| 20-02-1877 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. |
| 20-06-1877 | Alexander Graham Bell | Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. |
| 21-07-1877 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia. |
| 21-11-1877 | Thomas Edison | Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound. |
| 22-10-1877 | Blantyre mining disaster | The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. |
| 24-04-1877 | Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) | Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire. |
| 24-09-1877 | Battle of Shiroyama | The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion. |
| 24-11-1877 | Anna Sewell | Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. |
| 29-11-1877 | Thomas Edison | Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time. |
