Person report

★20 Jan 1877
The Constantinople Conference concluded with the Great Powers declaring the need for political reforms that the Ottoman Empire refused to undertake, which later led to the Russo-Turkish War.

★02 Mar 1877
The U.S. Electoral Commission awarded twenty disputed electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes, thus assuring his victory in the 1876 U.S. presidential election.

★09 May 1877
An 8.5 Ms earthquake struck the northern portion of Chile, resulting in the death of 2,541 people, including victims of the ensuing tsunami as far away as Hawaii and Japan.

★09 Jul 1877
The inaugural Wimbledon Championship, the world's oldest tennis tournament, began.

★24 Sep 1877
At the Battle of Shiroyama, the final engagement of the Satsuma Rebellion, the Imperial Japanese Army defeated rebel samurai of the Satsuma Domain led by Saigō Takamori.

★11 Mar 1879
Shō Tai, the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, abdicated when the kingdom was annexed by Japan and became Okinawa Prefecture.

★02 Oct 1879
Qing dynasty China signed the Treaty of Livadia with the Russian Empire, but the terms were so unfavorable to China that the negotiator Chonghou was later sentenced to death.

★03 Nov 1880
The current melody of Kimigayo, the national anthem of Japan, was adopted.

★27 Feb 1881
During the First Boer War, the British suffer a disastrious defeat at Majbua Hill.

★12 May 1881
Under the threat of invasion, the Bey of Tunis Muhammad III as-Sadiq signed the Treaty of Bardo to make Tunisia a French protectorate.

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