Major Events
- Mar 13 American Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs after inventing them at age 15
- Apr 15 World's first home telephone is installed in Somerville, Massachusetts at the house of Charles Williams Jr. [1]
- Apr 24 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
- Jul 11 Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts
- Sep 24 Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
- Nov 29 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time
- Dec 6 Thomas Edison enters the offices of Scientific American and turns the crank on his cylinder phonograph, astonishing those present with the recording, "Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the phonograph?" [1]
- More 1877 Events
1877 in Sport
- Mar 31 Test Cricket debut of feared Australian fast bowler Fred "The Demon" Spofforth; Australia loses 2nd Test by 4 wickets vs England at Melbourne Cricket Ground
- Jul 9 First ever Wimbledon tennis championship begins - first official lawn tennis tournament - men's singles only
- Jul 19 1st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: 27-year-old English rackets player Spencer Gore wins inaugural event; beats William Marshall 6-1, 6-2, 6-4
Isadora Duncan
Hermann Hesse
Charles Rolls
Frederick Soddy
Aga Khan III
Frank Chance
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Victor Trumper
Norman BrookesMore People Born in 1877
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Charles Wilkes
Brigham Young
Crazy Horse
William Henry Fox Talbot
Nathan Bedford ForrestMore 1877 Deaths
Articles About 1877
Rise and Fall of the Vanderbilt Empire
When he died on this day Cornelius Vanderbilt allegedly possessed more money than the U.S. Treasury. Much of it was squandered in lavish spending by descendantsJanuary 4
Earmuffs on, shhhh!
Chester Greenwood's 1877 patent for "ear-mufflers" and inset, Greenwood modeling his earmuffsMarch 13
Flash! Bang! It's the Human Cannonball!
An excited crowd looked up in astonishment and wonder when, in 1877, the first human cannonball flew above their heads.April 2
$48 Million Prize Money: Anyone For Tennis?
The first Wimbledon Men’s Singles championship began on this day. The winner received prize money of $15. In 2022 the champion took away more than $2 million.July 9
Thomas Edison's Phonograph
Thomas Edison with his second phonograph, photographed in 1878November 21
Famous Weddings in 1877
- Jul 11 Scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell (30) weds Mabel Hubbard (19) at the Hubbard estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Jul 18 Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (37) weds Antonina Miliukova (29) at the Church of Saint George in Moscow, Russia; separate six weeks later, but ever divorce
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Benjamin Disraeli
Otto von Bismarck