Historical Events In 1877

Aug 25   Joshua L Cowen, inventor (electric train) in the year 1877.  

Aug 27   Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd) on this day in history.  

Aug 29   In the year 1877 alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II)  

Aug 29   In the year 1877 brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies  

Aug 29   Mormon Church president Brigham Young dies in Salt Lake City, UT on this day in history.  

Sep 03   Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Rep (1871-77), dies at 80 in the year 1877.  

Sep 05   Crazy Horse, [Tashunka Witko], last great Sioux war chief, dies at 27 on this day in history.  

Sep 05   O W Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher on this day in history.  

Sep 05   Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas on this day in history.  

Sep 06   On this day in history petar Stojanovic, composer  

Sep 09   Frank Chance, baseball player/manager, Tinkers to Evers to Chance in the year 1877.  

Sep 10   Georgia B D Camp Johnson, US, poet/playwright (Autumn Love Cycle) in the year 1877.  

Sep 11   In the year 1877 feliks E Dzjerzjinski, Lithuania, founder (KGB)  

Sep 11   On this day in history rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen  

Sep 11   On this day in history the birth of James Jeans, British mathematician  

Sep 12   On this day in history julius Reitz, composer, dies at 64  

Sep 12   Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress (Jane Eyre) in the year 1877.  

Sep 16   In the year 1877 james J Jeans, cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe)  

Sep 17   In the year 1877 jean Hure, composer  

Sep 17   In the year 1877 william Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, dies at 77  

Sep 18   In the year 1877 jozef de Voght, Flemish priest/songwriter (Under the Snow)  

Sep 20   Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer on this day in history.  

Sep 20   Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan) in the year 1877.  

Sep 23   In the year 1877 hurricane strikes Curacao & Bonaire kills 200  

Sep 23   Urbain JJ Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies on this day in history.  

Sep 24   On this day in history battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion  

Sep 25   On this day in history plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)  

Sep 26   Alfred Cortot, French pianist in the year 1877.  

Sep 27   John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti in the year 1877.  

Sep 28   Stanner E V Taylor, St Louis MO, director/writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona) on this day in history.  

Sep 30   1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club) in the year 1877.  

Sep 30   In the year 1877 first US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)  

Sep 30   In the year 1877 toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce indians, dies in battle  

Oct 04   Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexico, revolutionary rebel [or 6/25] on this day in history.  

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906)  

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of gibson Gowland, England, actor (Blind Husbands, Phantom of the Opera)  

Jan 07   On this day in history birth of johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer (1 great dog)  

Jan 10   Frederick Gardner Cottrell, inventor (elecrostatic precipitator) was born in the year 1877.  

Jan 12   Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 15   On this day in history birth of lewis M Terman, Ind, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test)  

Jan 17   In the year 1877 birth of hans Jelmoli, composer  

Jan 17   On this day in history birth of may Gibbs, Australian children's author (d. 1969)  

Jan 04   In the year 1877 cornelius Vanderbilt, US robber baron, dies at 82  

Jan 09   On this day in history death of alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)  

Jan 11   In the year 1877 pietro Romani, composer, dies at 85  

Jan 24   Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796) died in the year 1877.  

Feb 01   Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Mar 04   Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch governor (St Maarten), dies at 42 on this day in history.  

Mar 09   On this day in history mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Neth Spectator), dies at 58  

Mar 12   In the year 1877 crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer, dies at 52