Historical Events In 1877
Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Jan 01 England's Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India 


Jan 02 Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906). 


Jan 04 Cornelius Vanderbilt, US robber baron, dies at 82 


Jan 04 Cornerlius Vanderbilt, millionaire entrepreneur and the richest man in the world at the time of his death, dies. 


Jan 04 Gibson Gowland, England, actor (Blind Husbands, Phantom of the Opera). 


Jan 07 Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer (1 great dog). 


Jan 08 Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory). 


Jan 10 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, inventor (elecrostatic precipitator). 


Jan 11 Pietro Romani, composer, dies at 85 


Jan 15 Lewis M Terman, Ind, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test). 


Jan 15 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens 


Jan 16 Color organ (for light shows) patented, by Bainbridge Bishop. 


Jan 17 Hans Jelmoli, composer. 


Jan 18 Samuel Zemurray, U.S. businessman (d.1961) 


Jan 19 Charles Coburn, Savannah Ga, actor (Devil and Miss Jones) 


Jan 20 Ruth St Denis, Newark NJ, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses). 


Jan 22 Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices 


Jan 22 Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics 


Jan 25 Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden 


Jan 26 Kees van Dongen, Netherland, French painter. 


Jan 30 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces 


Jan 31 Max Ettlinger, German philosopher 


Feb 01 Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer, dies at 71 


Feb 01 Plague in Russian Empire 


Feb 01 Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer. 


Feb 03 The piano piece 'chopsticks' is copyrighted. 


Feb 07 1st Guernsey Cattle Club organizes (NYC). 


Feb 07 Feliks Nowowiejski, composer. 


Feb 09 US weather service established. 


Feb 12 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Mass 


Feb 12 American railroad workers strike against wage reduction. 


Feb 12 inaugural news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem MA 


Feb 13 Jazeps Medins, composer 


Feb 17 Henri Vandeputte, Belgian author/poet (L'homme Jeune). 


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