Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years: 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 - 1882 - 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887
Events
- February 2 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut
- February 7 - In Mississippi City[?] the last heavyweight boxing championship bareknuckle fight takes place.
- March 22 - Polygamy is outlawed by the United States Congress.
- March 24 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis[?]).
- March 29 - The Knights of Columbus are established.
- April 3 - Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward.
- May 20 - Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
- Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (German bacteriologist) discovers the tubercle bacillus.
- Nikola Tesla invents alternating current generator
- First Polar Year, an international scientific program.
- Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann[?] publishes his proof of the transcendence of pi
Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy
Births
- January 18 - A. A. Milne, British author (+ 1956)
- January 25 - Virginia Woolf, writer (+ 1941)
- February 1 - Louis Stephen Saint Laurent, twelfth Prime Minister of Canada
- February 2 - James Joyce, author (+ 1941)
- February 11 - Gheorghe Cucu[?] composer.
- February 15 - John Barrymore, actor (+ 1942)
- March 14 - Waclaw Sierpinski Polish mathematician.
- March 21 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson[?], actor (+ 1971)
- March 23 - Emmy Noether, mathematician (+ 1935)
- April 17 - Artur Schnabel, pianist
- May 6 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany[?], heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (+ 1951)
- May 9 - Henry J. Kaiser[?], industrialist
- May 13 - Georges Braque, painter (+ 1963)
- May 16 - Anne McCormick[?], journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (+ 1954)
- May 19 - Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister (+ 1967)
- May 20 - Sigrid Undset, Norwegian author (+ 1949)
- June 17 - Igor Stravinsky, composer
- October 14 - Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot
- November 11 - King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden
- December 16 - Zoltán Kodály, composer
Deaths
- February 11 - Gustav Schmidt[?], composer
- March 24 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author
- April 3 - Jesse James, outlaw
- April 10 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter
- April 19 - Charles Darwin, British naturalist
- Charles A. Alexander[?], Victorian[?] architect
Common misspelling and questions (FAQ)
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