WHAT HAPPENED IN 1877.
Look what happened the 1877.

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

The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins. (9. July 1877)

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

Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army (9. August 1877)

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time. (29. November 1877)

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