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The first Test match is played in Melbourne between English and Australian cricket teams, with victory going to Australia
Whistler finds romance in Battersea Bridge
The Compromise of 1877 settles the disputed US presidential election but ends active Republican commitment to the cause of Reconstruction in the southern states
Britain annexes the Boer republic in the Transvaal
Puck is launched in the USA as a an illustrated weekly magazine of political satire
The ballet Swan Lake, with choreography by Julius Wenzel Reisinger to music by Tchaikovsky, has its premiere at the Bolshoi in Moscow
Cattle-rustler William H. Bonney becomes known as Billy the Kid in his brief and murderous career of crime in New Mexico
The Nez Percé Indians are led by Chief Joseph in a war against the US army
The first lawn-tennis championships are organized by the All-England Croquet Club at Wimbledon
Stanley completes his exploration of the Congo, reaching the Atlantic coast at Boma after a three-year journey
A strike against wage cuts by Baltimore railway workers spreads until it becomes almost a national strike
The human voice is recorded for the first time when Thomas Edison recites 'Mary had a little lamb' into his newly patented phonograph
John Astley buys Orleans House and converts it to a sports and social club which is unsuccessful.
George Eliot is devastated by the death from cancer of G.H. Lewes, her partner of 25 years
On a wave of jingoism Benjamin Disraeli sends six British ironclads, in support of Turkey, to confront the Russians near Istanbul
A congress in Berlin agrees that Austria may administer the Turkish province of Bosnia-Herzegovina
William Crookes develops a special tube, now known as the Crookes tube, for the study of cathode rays
A disagreement between families on the West Virginia and Kentucky border flares up and eventually claims a dozen lives
Romania achieves a new status as an internationally recognized independent nation
English-born US photographer Eadweard Muybridge publishes closely linked photographs revealing how a horse goes through its paces
Stanley agrees to work for Leopold II in opening up the Congo river to commerce
Czech composer Anton Dvorák writes his first set of Slavonic Dances, originally as piano duets
The Ten Years' War ends in Cuba, with Spain promising extensive reforms including the abolition of slavery
A war of liberation against Turkey wins full independence for Serbia
Three British armies invade Afghanistan, beginning the second Anglo-Afghan War
