Dec 06 Washington Post publishes first edition

Dec 22 Montreal Quebec-Laval University opens a branch campus in Montreal, later the University of Montreal

Dec 28 John Stevens, WI, applies for patent on flour rolling mill

Dec 29 Grand Trunk Railroad workers strike to support fired members of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; strike broken by use of militia and unorganized workers.

Aug 17 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos

Aug 29 Mormon Church president Brigham Young dies in Salt Lake City, UT.

Aug 02 SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes

Aug 10 First use of the telephone to dispatch trains. This was at the Caledonia Mine at Glace Bay on the Sydney Mines Railway. One of the owners was Gardiner G. Hubbard who was the father in law of Alexander Graham Bell who installed two telephones to control train movements.

Aug 01 SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes

Aug 12 Thomas Edison invents the Edisonphone, a sound recording device

Aug 11 Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos

Oct 15 45th Congress (1877-79) convenes

Oct 05 From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever" With those words, Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians surrendered to the U.S. Cavalry.

Oct 09 Locomotive Countess of Dufferin arrives at St. Boniface on a barge towed by the steamer "Selkirk". It was brought in by the contractor Joseph Whitehead to work on the Selkirk - Emerson line and was the first locomotive in Manitoba and on the Prairies.

Oct 10 General Custer's funeral is held at West Point

Oct 05 Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perc‚ War

Oct 09 American Humane Association organized in Cleveland

Jul 19 The first Wimbledon tennis championships held

Jul 02 The birth of Herman Hesse, German novelist

Jul 09 The All-England Croquet Club at Wimbledon staged the world's first lawn tennis championship on

Jul 23 The first telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed

Jul 24 The first time federal troops are used to combat strikers

Jul 23 The first US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations

Mar 12 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony

Mar 05 Rutherford B Hayes inaugurated as 19th US President

Mar 02 Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared President despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory

Mar 15 Commencement of first Test Cricket, Australia vs England at MCG

Mar 25 Australian immigrants' friend, Caroline Chisholm, dies in London.

Mar 19 Australia beat England by 45 runs in very first Test match

Mar 16 Charles Bannerman completes first Test cricket century, 165 vs England

Mar 18 President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC

Mar 03 Rutherford B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th President

Mar 24 University boat race between Oxford &Cambridge ends in a dead heat

Mar 31 British high director/Governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown

Mar 17 Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' first 5-wkt haul, 5-78 vs England

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