General
Population: 1.36 Billion*
- Entertainment: Writers include Gobineau, Ibsen, Henry James, Zola, JCF Zollner writes about spiritualism
Art includes Winslow Homer's "The Cotton Pickers", Manet's "Nana", Monet, Rodin's "The Age of Bronze"
Music includes Brahms, Wagner, Camille Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Publication of Mozart's complete works
- Science: Cailletet and Pictet independently liquefy oxygen
Koch develops bacterial staining techniques
Schiaparelli observes Mars canals - rumors of life start
Lord Rayleigh writes treatise on sound
Fossilized eggs studied with microscope
Second Archaeopteryx discovered – well preserved
- Technology: Sound recording invented with Robert Edison's Gramophone
Edison works on lightbulb
- Deaths: Statesman Adolphe Thiers, Historian John Lothrop Motley, Artist Gustave Courbet, Artist Homer D. Martin,
Africa
- South Africa: British annex S Africa – war between Zulus and British - Last Xhosa War against Europeans to 1879
- Transvaal: British annex Transvaal
Americas
- Argentina: Meat shipped to Europe
- Brazil: Drought and famine
- Chile: Tsunami
- Ecuador: Eruption of Cotopaxi kills over 1000
- Mexico: President Porfirio Diaz gains power in coup
Asia
- China: Drought and famine
- India: Drought (Bengal), famine, and cholera outbreaks
Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress
- Japan: Satsuma rebellion under Saigo Takamori results in death of Samurai - suppressed
Europe
- General: Frozen meat shipped from Argentina to Europe for first time
- Bulgaria: Vassal state created under Russia
- France: Third impressionist exhibition in Paris
- Germany: Patent Protection law enacted
- Great Britain: All-England Lawn tennis championship first played at Wimbleton
- Italy: Education made compulsory
- Netherlands: Building of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
- Russia: Plague outbreak
RUsso-Turkish War over Balkans to 1878
- Romania: Independence from Turkey
- Switzerland: Louis Lucien Rochet the theologian founds "Blue Cross" to fight alcoholism
First Kaffir War
Middle East
- Turkey: Russo-Turkish War - Russia declares war on Turkey and invades Rumania – Russians cross Danube and storm Kars – Russians take Plevna Bulgaria –
Bismarck declines to intervene – Serbia declares war on Turkey
Pacific
President:
Pres: Ulysses S. Grant
Pres: Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated
General
- Business: Granger cases decided
Railroad strikes in US
- Medicine: American Red Cross under direction of Clara Barton
- Military: Reconstruction ends
- Politics: US electoral commission decides that Hayes 19th president - election corrupt and hotly contested
- Technology: First public telephones in US
Phonograph invented
- Transportation: Westward migration of agriculturists in US
East
Midwest
- Nebraska: Sioux chief Crazy Horse killed after resisting arrest at Ft. Robinson - Chief Joseph surrenders
- Ohio: Education becomes mandatory
South
- General: Reconstruction ends as last troops removed from New Orleans
Era of lynchings begin
600,000 black students attend schools
- Louisiana: Federal troops withdrawn
- West Virginia: Great strike begins at Martinsburg
West and Pacific
- California: Decade-long depression increases anti-Chinese sentiment
- Utah: John D Lee executed in Panguitch over Mountain Meadow's Massacre
Nez Perce War
President
Pres: Brigham Young
Pres: Quorum of Twelve led by John Taylor
Membership: 115,065
Temples: 1
- St. George Utah
Other
- Priesthood Organized into stakes
- Relief Society organized into stakes
- Elder Woodruff sees Declaration signers, and is baptized for all and all presidents but Van Buren, Buchanan and Grant -
Later these baptisms are performed under Heber J. Grant
- John D. Lee executed in Panguitch
1877 
