WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO JULY 1877
Find out what all happened June to July 1877

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

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

The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins. (9. July 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)

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

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

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)