Events from the year 1877 in the United States.
Incumbents
:Ulysses S. Grant (R-Ohio) (until March 4)
:Rutherford B. Hayes (R-Ohio) (starting March 4)
:vacant (until March 4)
:William A. Wheeler (R-New York) (starting March 4)
State governments
Events
JanuaryâÂÂMarch
AprilâÂÂJune
JulyâÂÂSeptember
- July 10 â The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
- July 16 â Great Railroad Strike of 1877: Riots by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad railroad workers in Baltimore, Maryland, lead to a sympathy strike in Pittsburgh, and a worker's rebellion in St. Louis before U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes calls in the armed forces.
- August 9 â Indian Wars â Battle of Big Hole: Near Big Hole River in Montana, a small band of Nez Percé Indians who refused government orders to move to a reservation, clash with the United States Army. The army loses 29 soldiers and Indians lose 89 warriors in a U.S. Army victory.
- August 17 â Arizona blacksmith F.P. Cahill is fatally wounded by Billy the Kid. Cahill dies the next day, becoming the first person killed by the Kid.
- September â The first meeting of the Knights of Reliance in Lampasas County, Texas, which morphed into the Farmers' Alliance and eventually became the Populist Party.
- September 5 â 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.
OctoberâÂÂDecember
Ongoing
Sport
Births
- March 7 – Charles O. Andrews, U.S. senator from Florida from 1936 to 1946 (died 1946)
- March 9 – Albert Leo Stevens, balloonist (died 1944)
- March 16 – Thomas Wyatt Turner, civil rights activist, biologist and educator; first black person ever to receive a doctorate from Cornell (died 1978)
- April 3 – Karl C. Schuyler, U.S. senator from Colorado from 1932 to 1933 (died 1933)
- April 23 – Charles D. Herron, United States Army general (died 1977)
- May 16 – Joseph M. McCormick, U.S. senator from Illinois from 1919 to 1925 (died 1925)
- May 23 – Grace Ingalls, youngest sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (died 1941)
- May 26 (probable date) – Isadora Duncan, dancer (died 1927 in France)
- June 12 – Thomas C. Hart, U.S. senator from Connecticut from 1945 to 1946 (died 1971)
- July 1 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr., US Army General. First African-American to rise to the rank of brigadier general. (died 1970)
- July 2 – Rinaldo Cuneo, artist, "the painter of San Francisco" (died 1939)
- August 10 – Frank Marshall, chess player (died 1944)
- August 15 – Stanley Vestal, historian of the Old West and poet (died 1957)
- August 27 – Lloyd C. Douglas, novelist and pastor (died 1951)
- September 6 – Buddy Bolden, African American jazz cornetist (died 1930)
- October 2 – Carl Hayden, U.S. senator from Arizona from 1927 to 1969 (died 1972)
- October 13 – Theodore G. Bilbo, Governor of Mississippi from 1928 to 1932 and from 1935 to 1947 and U.S. senator from Mississippi from 1935 to 1947 (died 1947)
- October 31 – Josiah O. Wolcott, U.S. senator from Delaware from 1917 to 1921 (died 1938)
- November 12 – Warren Austin, U.S. senator from Vermont from 1931 to 1946 (died 1962)
- November 16 – Rice W. Means, U.S. senator from Colorado from 1924 to 1927 (died 1949)
- November 24
- Alben W. Barkley, 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 and U.S. senator from Kentucky from 1927 to 1949 and from 1955 to 1956 (died 1956)
- Edward C. Kalbfus, admiral (died 1954)
Deaths
- January 3 – John Joseph Abercrombie, Union Army brigadier general (born 1798)
- January 4 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur (born 1794)
- January 17 – John Pettit, U.S. senator from Indiana from 1853 to 1855 (born 1807)
- June 17 – Daniel D. Pratt, U.S. senator from Indiana from 1869 to 1875 (born 1813)
- July 16 – Samuel McLean, congressman from Montana (born 1826)
- August 28 – Ben DeBar, American actor-manager (born 1812)
- August 29 – Brigham Young, Mormon leader (born 1801)
- August 30 – Raphael Semmes, officer in the Confederate navy during the American Civil War (born 1809)
- September 5 – Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakota chief (born 1840-45)
- September 20 – Lewis V. Bogy, U.S. senator from Missouri from 1873 to 1877 (born 1813)
- October 29 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (born 1821)
- November 1 – Oliver P. Morton, U.S. senator from Indiana from 1867 to 1877 (born 1823)
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