Editing 1877 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Queen Victoria]] is proclaimed [[Empress of India]] by the [[Royal Titles Act 1876]], introduced by [[Benjamin Disraeli]], the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] .
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Great Sioux War of 1876]]: [[Battle of Wolf Mountain]] &ndash; [[Crazy Horse]] and his warriors fight their last battle with the [[United States Cavalry]] in [[Montana]].
* [[January 20]] &ndash; The Conference of Constantinople ends, with [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turkey]] rejecting proposals of internal reform and Balkan provisions.
* [[January 29]] &ndash; The [[Satsuma Rebellion]], a revolt of disaffected [[samurai]] in Japan, breaks out against the new imperial government; it lasts until September, when it is crushed by a professionally led army of draftees.<ref>{{cite book|first=Augustus H.|last=Mounsey|author-link=Augustus Henry Mounsey|title=The Satsuma Rebellion: An Episode of Modern Japanese History|url=https://archive.org/details/satsumarebellio01moungoog|location=London|publisher=John Murray|year=1879}}</ref>
* [[February 17]] &ndash; Major General [[Charles George Gordon]] of the [[British Army]] is appointed [[Governor-General of the Sudan]].<ref>Pierre Crabitès, ''Gordon: The Sudan and Slavery'' (Routledge, 2016)</ref> 
* [[March]] &ndash; ''[[The Nineteenth Century (periodical)|The Nineteenth Century]]'' magazine is founded in London.
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Compromise of 1877]]: The [[1876 United States presidential election]] is resolved with the selection of [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] as the winner, even though [[Samuel J. Tilden]] won the popular vote on [[November 7]], [[1876]].
* [[March 4]]
** [[Emile Berliner]] [[patent]]s the [[microphone]] in the United States.
** [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]'s ballet ''[[Swan Lake]]'' debuts in Moscow.
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1876–77]]: The first [[Test cricket]] match is held between England and Australia.
* [[March 24]] &ndash; For the only time in history, [[The Boat Race]] between the Universities of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] is declared a "dead heat" (i.e., a draw).