1877

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( 1870s: )     1877
Rutherford B. Hayes declared winner of 1876 US presidential election after judicial intervention, even though Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote.
year 1877

Events

• January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act 1876, introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
• February 17 – Major General Charles George Gordon of the British Army is appointed Governor-General of the Sudan.
• March 2 – In the Compromise of 1877, the 1876 United States presidential election is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
• March 4 - Rutherford B. Hayes is sworn in, as the 19th President of the United States.
  • The United Kingdom annexes the South African Republic, violating the Sand River Convention of 1852, causing a new Xhosa War.
• April 24 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878): Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• May 5 – Great Sioux War of 1876: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada, to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
• May 6 – Realizing that his people are weakened by cold and hunger, Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
• May 16 – The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France.
• May 21 (May 9 O.S.) – By a speech in the Parliament of Romania by Mihail Kogălniceanu, the country declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire (recognized in 1878 after the end of the Romanian independence war).
• June 20 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• June 21 – The Molly Maguires are hanged at Carbon County Prison, in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania.
• July 16 – Great Railroad Strike of 1877: Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore lead to a sympathy strike and rioting in Pittsburgh, and a full-scale worker's rebellion in St. Louis, briefly establishing a Communist government, before U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes calls in the armed forces.
• July 19 – Russo-Turkish War: The first battle in the siege of Plevna is fought.
• July 30 – Russo-Turkish War: The second battle in the siege of Plevna is fought.
• July 30 – Russo-Turkish War: The Turkish army and its allies destroy the Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora and massacre the inhabitants.
• September 5 – 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.
• September 24 – Battle of Shiroyama in Kagoshima, Japan: The Imperial Japanese Army annihilates heavily outnumbered rebel samurai under Saigō Takamori (who is killed), ending the Satsuma Rebellion.
• November 21 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound, considered Edison's first great invention. Edison demonstrates the device for the first time on November 29.

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Oxford University/Wycliffe Hall
University of Northumbria		Public	University located in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East of England.
University of Manitoba		Public	University in the province of Manitoba, Canada
The Washington Post		Newspaper	Guardian of the official narrative.
Technical University of Darmstadt		Public	One of the universities with the highest number of senior management in Germany having attended. Renowned for its engineering school.
University of Tokyo			Considered to be the most selective and prestigious university in Japan. The vast majority of senior civil servants are recruited from here.

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Dougal Malcolm	1877		1955	Deep state operative	UK deep state operative. Director of the British South Africa Company for 37 years
Henry Sloane Coffin	5 January 1877	New York	25 November 1954	Priest	leading liberal Presbyterian leader. Bonesman.
Maurice Hankey	1 April 1877	Biarritz	26 January 1963	Deep state operative	UK deep state operative
Ronald Lindsay	3 May 1877		21 August 1945	Diplomat	Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the most senior position in the British diplomatic service 1928-1930, and UK Ambassador to the United States 1930-1939.
Charles Rothschild	9 May 1877	London	12 October 1923	Academic Banker Entomologist	Entomologist Rothschild
William Wedgwood Benn	10 May 1877		17 November 1960	Politician	British Liberal politician who later joined the Labour Party. RAF officer and Secretary of State for India.
Robert F. Wagner	8 June 1877	Germany Kingdom of Prussia Nastätten Hesse-Nassau	4 May 1953	Politician
Robert Sterling Clark	25 June 1877	New York US Cooperstown	29 December 1956	Deep state operative Businessperson	US businessman implicated in the Business Plot by the testimony of Smedley Butler.
Arthur Maundy Gregory	1 July 1877	United Kingdom Southampton	28 September 1941	Spook Blackmailer	An early 20th century sexual blackmailer who had so much dirt on key establishment figures that his MI5 file remains censored, 65+ years after his death.
John Cadman	7 September 1877		31 May 1941	Deep politician Businessperson	Director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company who aimed for cartel control of world oil market
Hugh Wyndham	4 October 1877		6 July 1963	Politician Deep state operative	UK deep state operative
Aga Khan III	2 November 1877		11 July 1957	Royalty Iman	Very rich religious leader working for British colonial interests.
Ernest Hopkins	6 November 1877	New Hampshire Dunbarton	13 August 1964	Academic	President of Dartmouth College from 1916 to 1945.
Warren Austin	12 November 1877	Vermont Franklin County	25 December 1962	Politician
Giuseppe Volpi	19 November 1877		16 November 1947	Deep politician Businessperson	The deep politician behind Mussolini
Alben Barkley	24 November 1877	Kentucky Lowes	30 April 1956	Lawyer

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