WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1877
Find out what all happened February to December 1877

Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy. (15. June 1877)

U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876. (2. March 1877)

The first edition of the Washington Post is published. (6. December 1877)

Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (20. June 1877)

Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles. (5. October 1877)

The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain. (10. July 1877)

The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. (22. October 1877)

16 May 1877 political crisis in France. (16. May 1877)

Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire. (24. April 1877)

The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels. (31. March 1877)

The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons. (21. June 1877)

Asaph Hall discovers the Mars moon Deimos. (12. August 1877)

Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. (20. February 1877)

Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound. (21. November 1877)

At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens. (8. May 1877)

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. July 1877)

Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogălniceanu's Declaration of Independence. Recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence. (10. May 1877)

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan. (9. May 1877)

American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon – the Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory. (17. June 1877)

Asaph Hall discovers Martian moon Phobos. (18. August 1877)