WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1877
Find out what all happened March to December 1877

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

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

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

Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska. (6. May 1877)

Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania. (9. May 1877)

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

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US, when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers have their wages cut for the second time in a year. (14. July 1877)

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

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

First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia (15. March 1877)

American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. (5. May 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 inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins. (9. July 1877)

Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion (24. September 1877)

Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army (9. August 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)

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

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. (5. September 1877)